About Us
For over 15 years, mission aviation representatives have been coming to Oshkosh, Wisconsin for the world's largest
fly-in. It is a great place for mission aviation agencies to build
valuable relationships among pilots and others interested in aviation, as well as an opportunity
to make contacts with those in the aviation industry. MASA Represented Organizations
- IAMA - International Association of Missionary Aviation
- JAARS - Jungle Aviation and Radio Service (Gives Technical Assistance to Wycliffe Translators)
- Wycliffe Bible Translators (Bible Translators Around the World)
- MAF Mission Aviation Fellowship (Providing Aviation Support for Missions)
- Moody Aviation (Training Pilots and Mechanics)
- LeTourneau University (Training Pilots and Mechanics)
- United Indian Mission (missions focused on Latin America)
- Mission Safety International (Training Pilots and Missionaries about Safety and Security)
- Air Calvary
- Air Serve (Providing Air Support Around the World)
- Christian Wings for the World (Training Jungle Pilots)
- HeliMission (Helicopter Support to Remote Peoples)
- Liberty University Aviation (Training Pilots and Mechanics)
- New Tribes Aviation (Reaching the Unreached Tribes)
- Brigade Air (Inspiring Teens Toward Careers in Mission Aviation)
- SMAT - School of Missionary Aviation Technology (Training Pilots and Mechanics)
- LAMP Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots (Serving Remote Areas of Canada)
- MAF Canada (Providing Aviation Support for Missions)
- Prairie Bible (Training Pilots and Mechanics)
- Wings of Faith (Using Aircraft and Vehicles to Help Those in Need)
Reasons Mission Aviators Come to the EAA Fly-In
- Learn about new technology
- Present their work and ideas to the aviation world
- Recruit pilots, mechanics, teachers, translators, and others
- Fellowship in local churches
Some years ago JAARS announced that they would no longer be able to afford coming to the
EAA. MAF was also finding it increasingly difficult. The rising cost of expenses
required to come to Oshkosh and have exhibition space was making attendance by other mission
agencies an impossibility as well. Combined with housing and meals, the cost was
becoming prohibitive.
The support
team went to work trying to help these agencies and others affiliated with IAMA
with the financial burden of coming to Oshkosh. The group has members from churches
in the greater Fox Valley area including Eureka, Fisk, Fond du Lac, Green Lake,
Oshkosh, Ripon, Neenah, and Appleton. In 2006 our efforts helped more than
80 missionaries attend AirVenture 2006. Together we are in the process of raising
sufficient funds to offset their expenses at EAA and assist them in their on-going
ministries.
Local evangelical churches and their members were involved in the following ways
- Scheduling missionary speakers for Sunday Church Services or other events such as youth groups during the week of EAA Airventure.
- Hosting pot luck dinners or barbecues for the missionaries and allowing them to speak afterward
- Bringing a noon or evening meal onto the EAA "MASA" campground site
- Contributing financially to the effort and specifically to Mission Aviation Agencies for campground and exhibitor space.
- Housing missionary pilots/families or representatives.
- Supplying lunch and housing for pilots at MATA (Missions at the Airport)
MASA Statement of Faith
We adhere to the following truths of the Christian faith:
- The divine inspiration of the canonical Scripture in its entirety; that the Bible is inerrant in its original writings and is of supreme authority in human faith and practice.
- One God eternally co-existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- The deity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Son of Man, who is both Savior and Lord; in His incarnate birth of a virgin, perfect human life, redeeming death, bodily resurrection, on-going heavenly intercession, and pending personal return.
- The personality of the Holy Spirit by whose regenerative work sinful humans are “born again” (as explained by Christ and as recorded in the 3rd chapter of John’s Gospel) and by whose indwelling regenerated humans are enabled to live Godly, Christ-like lives.
- The creation of man and woman in God’s image.
- Man’s subsequent fall through rebellious sin, resulting in universal guilt and total depravity and the necessity, therefore, of redemption and restoration.
- The substitutionary death of Christ working atonement for human sins.
- Justification of humans by God’s grace through faith (obedient trust) in the person and work of Christ.
- The future bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessed life of the saved and the eternal punishment of the lost.
- The spiritual unity of all believers composing the true Church, which has the duty to preach the Gospel of Christ among all ethnic groups.
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