WHO: We’re Jay, Susan, Alex, Elizabeth and Samantha Mundy.  We’ve been a family since our wedding in June of 1989.  Alex came along in February of 1996, Elizabeth shares a birthday with Susan, in August, and was born in 1998.  Samantha was born at Ft Belvoir, VA, in March of 2003.  Jay spent 20 years in the US Air Force, retiring as a major.  Along the way he was an electrician, a flight test engineer, on headquarters staff, and an exchange officer with the Royal Australian Air Force.  We’ve lived in Maryland, Louisiana, Ohio, Florida, South Australia, Virginia, and Nebraska.  WHAT: Jay is a professional pilot and aircraft mechanic for AIM Air.  Susan is a professional homemaker and Mom.  WHY: Back in 1985 when Jay became a Christian he made the mistake, rather like Jonah, of saying “Ok God, not a missionary.  They’re boring and all they do is read their Bible and pray all day.”  Instead of sending Jay a fish, though, He sent him an airplane.  In 1992 Jay was on the missions board at Ginghamsburg UMC in Tipp City, OH.  A missionary the church was supporting came to give the board an update on his preparations to go be a pilot/mechanic for Mission Aviation Fellowship.  Jay came home that evening and scared Susan half to death, “I want to be a missionary pilot.”  From there began flight training, and later airframe and powerplant (A&P) school. WHY AFRICA: Since hearing the call to be a pilot, Jay has felt the call to serve in Africa.  According to one statistic we heard, Africa loses about 50,000 miles of road a year.  The more the roads deteriorate, the more dependent missionaries become on aviation.   There is hardly a more needy place on earth than Africa.  The natural resources are there, but the countries are crippled by corruption, drought, disease, lack of education, and above all, a lack of the knowledge of Jesus Christ.  The old tribal religions and worship of spirits and demons…witch doctors and superstition still hold sway through much of the continent.  Islam makes greater inroads into Africa every year.  In the face of that, though, stands God’s call to “make disciples of all the nations.”  So we’re going to Africa to make help professionals trained in languages, in theology, in church planting and growth to do their work in remote, hard to get to places, where the need is great.