Franky & Yuk Tse

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2025 July Update

About Us
Franky decided to serve full time during a spiritual conference when he finished university. He felt called to the mission aviation ministry and moved to Canada to pursue this calling. He completed his Bible and mission aviation training at Prairie Bible Institute. Afterwards, he worked as a flight instructor to gain experience and accumulate hours in aviation. To qualify as a pilot in the mission field, he went to the US for mechanic training and aviation assessments. God eventually led him to join a mission team based in Kenya, serving missionaries and unreached people groups in East and Central Africa.

Yuk decided to serve unreached people during a mission trip when she was 20. She then went on several mission trips to Africa and confirmed her calling to become a missionary. She completed an education diploma and a Master’s in Divinity to equip herself. She served as a pastor in the mission department of her home church. She met Franky when she joined the same mission organization and they got married. They returned to the mission field as a couple in 2017.

Our Current role in AIM
Franky joined Africa Inland Mission (AIM) with a vision for aviation ministry. He is currently serving in Kenya as a pilot, aircraft mechanic, and IT developer. The aviation ministry supports many missionaries who serve in remote areas—places where they are often isolated and at risk. In addition to providing transportation in and out of villages, medical and supply deliveries, and any emergency services, the ministry offers various types of support as needed.

Yuk is involved in a local outreach team, ministering to an unreached people group in Kenya. She builds relationships and shares the gospel through teaching English, while also taking care of their daughter.

About AIM
Africa Inland Mission(AIM) has been leading people into meaningful cross-cultural ministry for more than 125 years. We send workers throughout Africa and among African diaspora around the globe. AIM serves and partners with churches to advance the gospel among Africans who have the least opportunity to hear about Jesus.

Our passion is to see the worship of Jesus Christ spread across the continent of Africa – through individual lives fully committed to him, and collectively through Christ-centered churches. God has done a mighty work in Africa, where his Church is vast and growing daily, but the task is far from finished.

Pastor Hector

About Me
I like to play baseball a lot and behind my house there was a baseball field where a Christian baseball team made me play with them. They preached to me everytime I played and invited me to Church services. That was the way God used to bring me to Him. I received the calling when I was the president of the youth department and later on I became a youth pastor. As the situation in my country worsened, I was thinking of traveling to the U.S. and on 3 occasions I prayed and asked God if it was His Will. God showed and confirmed me His calling to this holy ministry. I gave up emigrating to the U.S. and since then I have been serving the Lord full-time - not as the youth pastor, but as the pastor of the whole church of Chivirico. We then moved from Maisi, Guantanamo, to Chivirico to serve the Lord here.

Currently, I am the pastor of the church here in Chivirico. As for the challenges, I would say I face many. This place is very idolatrous, with witchcraft, homosexuality, drug use, alcoholism, child abuse, and more.

Current role and challenges
Another challenge has been that after coming here, I developed a minor prostate issue, and many of the brothers and sisters live far away, which makes it difficult for me to visit them due to my condition.

Housing has also been a challenge—the house we live in is not in good condition. When it rains, water leaks in through some areas, and it is a place where potable water is scarce.

But I am convinced that God brought us to this place, and despite all the trials and challenges, God has never abandoned us, and He is working in this place.

About Evangelical Church of the New Pines
Our church is called Evangelical Church of the New Pines (Iglesia Evangélica Los Pinos Nuevos), and here we have a total of 40 brothers and sisters—12 children and 28 adults.

When we arrived here 1 year and 6 months ago, there were only 6 brothers and sisters. But by the grace and mercy of God, He has been adding to the church, and now we are a total of 40 members.

2025 July Update
I would like for you all to be praying for a situation that is greatly affecting this community, and that is the drought. We live in a place where the water we receive comes from springs, and since it hasn’t rained, there isn’t much water. Sometimes we go up to two months without receiving water. There are families that have to get through a whole day with just one liter of water to drink.

Tim and Laura Neufeld

About Us

Tim and Laura both grew up cross-culturally as missionary kids, Tim in Latin America and Laura in Kathmandu, Nepal. Their lives first intersected when they attended Prairie High School in Three Hills, Alberta. Years later, Tim felt a clear call to mission aviation and decided to attend Prairie School of Mission Aviation to earn his commercial pilot license. During this time, Tim and Laura – now a teacher – got back in contact and were married in December 2009. Tim and Laura knew from early in their relationship that finding a way to become active in God’s Kingdom in a global sense was important to both of them, and since the beginning of their marriage have been working towards fulfilling this mandate. Before joining Mission Aviation Fellowship, they had been living and working in northern Alberta, where Tim was flying for an air operator offering medivac and charter work.

My Current role in Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)
The Neufelds have being serving with Mission Aviation Fellowship in Papua New Guinea since October 2017, along with their two children: Hannah (2013) and Ethan (2017). Tim flies a Cessna 208 Caravan into isolated communities across the country to bring help, hope and healing through the love of Christ. His passengers may be missionaries, pastors, Bible translators, teachers, local people, or those needing urgent medical care. Laura is a teacher and has been volunteering at a mission school where both of their children attend.

In January 2025, after seven years of service in PNG, the Neufelds will be transitioning to MAF’s flight school, Prairie Aviation Training Centre in Three Hills, where Tim will be training pilots for mission aviation. He looks forward to using his experiences overseas in training the next generation of missionary pilots.

About MAF
Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is an international Christian organisation whose purpose is to bring help, hope and healing through aviation to people living in isolation and poverty. Every 5.6 minutes a MAF aircraft takes off or lands somewhere in the world, transporting people who live in remote villages and assisting missions, churches, aid and development agencies and others working to transform the lives of communities that are cut off from the outside world.

PATC is a part of Prairie College, a world class Bible school just one hour outside of Calgary, URL: www.prairie.edu/aviation/

2025 July Update

 Please pray for all of the pilot candidates who apply to work with MAF Canada.  Tim has become involved in the recruiting and assessing of these candidates.  It is challenging but very rewarding.  

  1. Continue praying for Tim's struggle with getting some paperwork from Transport Canada.  This process has become very frustrating, but praise that there is progress happening in the past few weeks.  

  2. Pray for the Prairie College students who are training throughout the summer.  Over the past few weeks, we have had 13 new pilots complete their first solo flights, a huge step in their training. Pray that the Lord would continue to give them safety and excellent learning.