Candidates from El Salvador

This is Ricardo and Monica Hernandez from El Salvador. They stayed with us from Tuesday night until Thursday noon for a brief "candidacy". It is really amazing how God worked this all out...

A few months ago I got an email from the recruitment man at MAF telling me about a pilot in the El Salvadorian Air Force (Ricardo) who just got back from a 6 month assignment in Iraq and is interested in missions. I emailed Ricardo, introduced Asas to him, and asked if he was interested in serving with us in Brazil. He was immediately interested and we started all the paperwork process. Ricardo is at a critical point in his military career and will be starting a 2 year course in January that will allow him to be promoted and such. He is also #3 in the El Salvadorian Cuscatlán (like the Blue Angels)! All the pilots here were oooing and aaahing! (And his brother is the commander of the Cuscatlán) It is at this point in their lives that they feel God calling them to full-time missionary service. Just from this little bit of information (and there is much more), you can see just what a servant's heart Ricardo and Monica have to even consider a life change right now. Anyway, Ricardo sends me an email about 2 weeks ago saying that Monica would be in Rio de Janeiro on business (she is an industrial engineer and the Secretary General for the Archery division of the Pan American Games) for 10 days. Well, how could we let her be in Brazil and not meet her! So I asked him if there was any chance of him coming for a few days too and both of them coming to Anápolis for us all to meet and do some evaluations. They had to juggle schedules and pull strings, but they managed to come! The time was short and we kept them busy, but I believe it was enough time for them to see what Asas is all about and for us to get to know them. He was able to get in one flight with Steve, but the second flight had to be cancelled due to weather. Now we wait to see how God leads! I am sure they would appreciate your prayers as they will be making the critical decision in the next few weeks about giving his notice to the Air Force.