The Maverick With a Mission

Steve Saint (yes, his real name) is a missionary who developed this flying car, called the Maverick,  to help natives in remote regions of the Amazon access health care in fulfillment of a promise he made to the Huaronai tribe in Ecuador that killed his missionary father and four other missionaries in 1956. 

The tragedy was recounted in Elizabeth's Elliott's book Through Gates of Splendor and also made into a movie. Steve Saint wrote his own book about his father, The End of the Spear, which was also made into a movie.

The video is about 6 minutes long and doesn't discuss the purpose of the flying car until close to the end. It's well worth watching. Christianity Today had a lengthy article about Spear and his flying car here. For more information, you can check out the Maverick's website.

The FAA has certified the Maverick as airworthy, and surely God will bless the mission Saint developed it for.

Requirement for Mission?

Yesterday's post drew such a variety of good comments and discussion that I'm going to throw out another idea for discussion from the retreat that I've been pondering.

Borden emphasizes the importance of tying increase in number of new disciples into the job expectations for pastors, staff and lay leaders. One of the examples he gave was the church that decided to participate in a Habitat for Humanity project and set up the requirement that church members had to bring an "unchurched" person (apologies to those of you who aren't comfortable with that word) along with them in order to work on the project.

How would a requirement like that work in your church? Would it discourage people from becoming involved in the mission or motivate them to reach out and involve someone who was not yet a disciple of Jesus Christ? Should mission be used in this way for evangelism?