After serving 17 years with Wycliffe Bible translators including 11 years in Papua Indonesia God has called us into a new ministry. Courtney is now serving as the executive director of Legacy Builders Ministries. We are focused on Biblical Stewardship training with a focus on sustainable agriculture, see more at www.LegacyBuild.org. We will keep this Zehr Air site going as our personal ministry but LegacyBuild.org will have more information.
Here is some info about what we did in our previous ministry
Why Airplanes?
Rugged geography, swamps, thick rain-forests and a lack of roads means that aviation is the only viable connection for hundreds of people groups around the world.
In developed areas of the world the use of small aircraft is a luxury that few can afford, but for remote tribal people in rugged areas of the earth the use of airplanes is a necessity that they can’t afford to be without.
Did you know that thousands of people on earth today live in a town or village with no road? These people want to be connected with the outside world. In many cases a half hour to an hour plane ride takes up to two weeks on foot.
When a pregnant women gets complications or a man gets appendicitis (easily treated at a hospital) they would have to walk for two weeks with there condition. The reality is that these people die from easily treatable ailments without an aircraft to evacuate them to a Hospital.
The process of Bible Translation takes a big team and lots of checking with colleagues. Without airplanes in these areas translation projects would not happen. The airplane not only speeds translation projects it opens up otherwise unreachable areas
We served in Papua Indonesia for over 11 years. On the Map below you can zoom in and click on the runways to see pictures and Videos of various villages in Papua Indonesia.