USA (MNN) – Cornerstone University is a Christ centered university, located in Grand Rapids, MI, helping raise up men and women to be global influencers for Christ.
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A couple of the ways CU does this is by holding weekly chapels, required bible courses as part of its general education program, professors who are committed to Christ, and the degrees CU offers. Specifically, like CU’s bachelor degree in Mission Aviation.
To make this degree a reality, CU has had the unique opportunity to team up with the School of Mission Aviation Technology (SMAT), located in Ionia, MI.
Terry Yoder with SMAT explains, “We do two things. We train aircraft maintenance specialists and we train aircraft pilots. Primary focus of the training is to prepare them for mission work. For work in the mission field.”
Completing the bachelor’s degree requires CU students in the program to spend a year training at SMAT. And believe it or not, there is a great need on the mission field in the aviation department. In fact, mission pilots are needed for more than just mission work sometimes.
(Photo/Caption Courtesy SMAT via Facebook) Meet your pilots!! JAARS pilots Mike Mower and Ken Van Weerdhuizen will be headed to Michigan for the SMAT Community Days event on June 25-26. They will be your pilots for the $25 airplane rides in the JAARS Helio Courier.
“The missionaries themselves rely very heavily on air transportation that is provided by mission aviation fellowship, by JAARS, New Tribes Mission Aviation, and so many more. There’s also, you know the countries rely on them. We have governments that are inviting the mission organizations to come into their country to provide flight support for humanitarian relief,” Yoder explains.
Do you have a student interested in mission aviation, or, are you interested too? If so, the weekend of June 25-26, SMAT is holding a Community Days Event where individuals can come out and learn more about mission aviation.
Participants will also have the opportunity to meet real mission pilots and will have the option to purchase tickets to experience a plane on the runway and/or takeoff into air.
To learn more about SMAT’s Community Days, click here!
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I am interested to be trained as missionary aviation. And i pray that God must guide me to be successful.
Our family understands the great need for missionaries and missionary aviation. What we do not understand is young people who attend a college (such as the one advertised here) that costs $35K/year. It is unrealistic to expect young adults to graduate from a school like that with many thousands of dollars of debt (even $100K or more) and become a missionary. What we need are facilities and individiuals who are dedicated to producing graduates at a true LOW COST so that they can enter the mission field without debt. Our nation’s “Christian” colleges are doing America’s youth a huge disservice by encouraging them to enroll in such expensive programs.
And please don’t throw the “scholarships” comment at me! I know students who are National Merit Scholars and who have excellent character, references, and potential, who are attending community college and living at home because they can’t obtain enough scholarship money to go anywhere else. One of them feels God has called them to a missions linguistic field…but may never get there because they are not willing to take on such a boatload of debt that most American students are “falling” for.
Even the schools and colleges who used to provide Christian, missions education at a fair and reasonable price so that people wouldn’t have to go into debt now have similar prices as all the schools who receive federal funding. It’s pathetic. No wonder we have to few people who are truly ready to serve!
I am a commercial pilot with instrument rating i am willing and eager to go into the mission field.Could you tell me how to apply for this?