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Urgent Prayer Request, March 30, 2021

Dear Friends and Family, Please see attached letter just to bring you all up to speed. As many of you know, we were donated two King Air aircraft and we are in the final planning stages of bringing the first one out here to Yap. A lot of work has gone into making this...

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December 2020

Dear Friends and Family, Merry Christmas from Yap, Micronesia! We love this time of year in the islands. There will be a lot of flying and events, but the joy of this season is infectious and keeps us going. Heidi continues to co-lead Ladies Bible Study with...

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November 2020

November 2020

Miracle for PMA Dear friends of PMA, For the last year, PMA has been looking at options to upgrade our aircraft so that we can better service the outer islands of Yap State  and also when the borders open we could have a better aircraft to provide a link between Yap...

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August 2020

Hello friends, Here is a video of a Baptism we had just last week in Fais.  I flew our pastor and his wife out to the island, where our Bible Study group were assembling for fellowship and a Baptism.  This is a video I made of the event. https://youtu.be/B5wTnsENVMc...

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June 2020

Dear Friends and Family, Greetings from Yap! We are excited to share with you the news of the birth of Owen Jan Collins. He was born at 6:20 AM on June 10 and weighed 7 lbs 4 oz. Both mother and baby were healthy. Heidi had false labor on June 8 which got us all...

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Spring 2020

Hebrews 13:5 I will never leave you or forsake you. Dear Friends and Family, Greetings again from Yap Island in the Western Pacific. It has been a while since we wrote a newsletter, but I hope that most of you were able to watch the video I sent out in December giving...

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Christmas 2019

Dear Friends and Supporters, Our home church in Duvall Washington, asked us to put together a very short video about our ministries out here in Yap. As I put together different clips, I exceeded the time frame that they asked for, and so they had to cut it shorter. I...

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November 1, 2019

Hi from Yap, Micronesia, Yap has been experiencing a bad outbreak of dengue fever and leptospiroris for the past few months. Hundreds of people have been in and out of hospital, which is overflowing and staff are putting up makeshift wards made of tarps to accommodate...

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June 2019

Watch a Pacific Mission Aviation rescue operation to a modern outrigger canoe that had capsized 400 miles from Yap, where the Collins are working! https://youtu.be/vyRYV7msqWs

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May 2019

Dear Faithful Supporters, Today I was in a meeting with the new Governor of Yap and was explaining to him how our organization works. I explained how we as missionaries are able to live here in this country and help the people here only because we have supporters back...

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Spring 2019

Spring 2019

“May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had.” Romans 15:5 Well friends, it’s time for another (overdue) update from the Island of Stone Money! It’s hard to believe that 15 years ago, I...

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End of 2018

Dear Friends and Family, Thank you for reading yet another Collins family newsletter. This season, the refrain going through our heads is “KEEP GOING.” The longer we stay here in Micronesia, the more we can appreciate the Bible’s exhortation to persevere. As Romans...

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