Easter

Hi all,

We pray that the celebration and remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord sustains you throughout your lives!

May your Easter celebration be wonderful and blessed!


Dios le bendiga grandemente en a su familia y ministerio.

Casa de Servicio, International
Emergency Missionary Medical Evacuation

Richard & Carolyn Becton
308 Waterville Dr SE
Cleveland, TN 37323
210 392-9574
flight@flash.net
http://www.casadeservicio.org/blog/
http://www.casadeservicio.org
https://www.cogwm.org/donate/index.cfm?pid=0650497

a quick reminder

Hi all,

Just a quick reminder to all of you that are NEW to receiving our "blog". Casa de Servicio (http://www.casadeservicio.org) is a Church of God, World Missions ministry, looking for opportunities to "spread the word" about it's ministry.

Please take a minute or two to "catch up" on our previous blog posts which help you to understand our AVIATION MEDICAL EVACUATION MISSION, by clicking the link below that ends in "blog" (http://www.casadeservicio.org/blog).

Thank you and God Bless YOU!

Dios le bendiga grandemente en a su familia y ministerio.

Casa de Servicio, International
Aviation Medical Evacuation and Support

Richard Becton
308 Waterville Dr SE
Cleveland, TN 37323
210 392-9574
flight@flash.net
http://www.casadeservicio.org/blog/
http://www.casadeservicio.org
Church of God, World Missions project # 065-0497

As our next missions trip approaches

Hi again Gang!

The next mission trip to Nicaragua is FAST approaching. Although this next trip is more of a "logistics" trip than a true missions trip. I will be going down to Managua, Nicaragua and Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua by myself to arrange for the PERMANENT MOVE of Carolyn and I to that area. I will be going down on May the 10th. This trip is scheduled to last for two weeks, but I sincerely hope that I can make adequate arrangements in much less time than that (perhaps a week). I am excited and overjoyed to be making this trip...because I know that the NEXT TRIP we make down there will be the one that establishes us PERMANENTLY in Nicaragua.

Carolyn and I had the opportunity to visit Jacksonville, Florida this last weekend on our way down to Lakeland, Florida to attend the Sun N Fun annual Fly-In there. We took the opportunity to make a few phone calls to Pastors in the Jacksonville area. We are encouraged to continue contact with the dedicated and God-loving ministers in the Jacksonville area. We hope in the not too distant future that one or more of the pastors in Jacksonville will invite us into their churches to spread the word about the crucial mission which Casa de Servicio (http://www.casadeservicio.org) is engaging upon. We hope and pray that the Church of God representatives in Jacksonville will open their doors and their prayer lives to our mission. We anticipate a HUGE RESPONSE from that area of the country, and are excited about the prospect of building an ongoing relationship with each and every Church of God Minister in Jacksonville.

Most of you that receive this "blog" know that Carolyn (my wife) and I are Airline Transport Pilots who are "giving it up" to pursue our God-given mission in Central America (Nicaragua). Carolyn and I founded the nonprofit organization named Casa de Servicio (http://www.casadeservicio.org) about four years ago (although it has been in our HEARTS for over a decade now). The Church of God has been an integral part of helping us to plan and coordinate our organization. This help has culminated in Casa de Servicio, and Carolyn and I, being official missionaries of the Church of God.

Our Church of God, World Missions project number is: 065-0497

Carolyn and I both fly business jets for a company named Flight Options, LLC. I fly a mid-sized business jet called a Hawker, and Carolyn flys a business jet called the Citation 2/5. We are both eagerly anticipating the day (soon to come) when we can pursue the Emergency Evacuation and Medical Transportation Mission in Nicaragua, which God has placed in our hearts.

Carolyn and I have been participating in short term mission trips (from 1 week to three weeks) for the last four years. We try to average 2-3 trips per year to Central America. We have participated in, and conducted missions trips to Honduras, and Nicaragua to date, and are EAGERLY anticipating the time when we can provide a PERMANENT service in that worthy, yet poverty stricken area of the world.

To give you ONE EXAMPLE (of many, many more) why Carolyn and I are giving up a life of comparitive luxury to live in a third-world country, in "village" conditions I will tell you the story of a young girl we met in the village of Krautara, Honduras. Carolyn, Vincent Castellani, and myself (along with several others) had taken a four hour canoe trip up the river Patuca to arrive at this beautiful little village nestled sweetly between the typically jungle covered and rolling hills of Nicragua. We chose to take this journey because the village of Krautara is in what is typically referred to as an "unreached people group". The village has little contact with the rest of Honduras and sort of lives as an island of humanity amidst the encrouching jungle flora. The only way to get to Krautara was via this forty-foot long dugout canoe, up the river in the blazing sun for about four hours. The journey to arrive at krataura was uncomfortable. Anyone who has sat in ANY KIND of boat for four hours has an "inkling" of what I mean. Now imagine for a moment or two that there ARE NO SEATS in the boat! The seats were actually cut from branches of trees for us just prior to having to sit on them for the duration of the trip. They were about two inches around (if that). Now I am not telling you about this just to complain...

On with the tale. When we arrived in the village we were met by concerned men who advised the doctor we had with us (Dr. Alejandro, from Cuba) that there was a young girl in the process of giving birth who was having a GREAT DEAL OF DIFFICULTY. This young woman was in very dire straights! Dr. Alejandro spent the next few hours with her trying to facilitate her precious babys delivery under these jungle conditions. Unfortunately Dr. Alejandro had more success with the young woman then with her child. We needed to get her to a clinic where there were at least SOME SORT of medical facilities available. But there was not much in the way of medical facilities in Krautara that day. Towards the end of this young womans crisis she was placed on a blanket, and four strong men, each grasping a corner, were carrying this poor young woman to the canoe which we had arrived in. They were about to take her downriver to the nearest clinic in Wampirsirpi, Honduras. I had just spent the last four hours onboard that canoe and COULD NOT IMAGINE having to do it while writhing in agony in the blazing sun! She was spared the journey due to the passing away of her miscarried child. What an agony of a life that these people must endure!

We had arrived in Krautara to show the villagers how important a little airstrip could be to their village. This establishment of this "miracle acreage", this airstrip which Casa de Servicio (http://www.casadeservicio.org) and others will use to bring in emergency medical supplies and to transport sick or injured people to the nearest clinic or hospital is what we are doing in Nicaragua. Needless to say, the headmen of the village "got it" that day. They understood implicitly and completely the value of converting a four-hour, arduous journey by canoe, into a twenty minute "hop" on a small airplane. We left Krautara the next day with the understanding that the villagers would be constructing the dirt strip where we had located a relatively flat piece of ground for them. Sometimes in that area of the world things don't always go according to schedule. There is a stereotype of the perception of time being somewhat slower in the Latin American parts of the world. THAT DAY, there was no procrastination. After taking the reverse trip back to Wampirsirpi, Honduras and retrieving the Cessna 185 which we had flown into Wampirsirpi we overflew the village of Krautara once more, to remind them that they "were not alone". I wish I could relate more perfectly how much our hearts soared to see the villagers ALREADY constructing that little "miracle strip". They really DID understand the importance. Can you? You see, to these many many villages along the rivers of Central America that little airplane isn't just a piece of modern machinery...it is in FACT, a time machine of a sort. Those little airplanes can convert a four-hour (and sometimes even MORE) journey into a twenty minute flight to safety and at least the barest minimum of medical aid.


Casa de Servicio is making a major fund-raising "push" right now to buy a desperately needed airplane to perform Emergency Medical Evacuation services in La Moskitia. The indigenous people of La Moskitia have been earnestly praying for this service for many years now, and their prayers are about to be answered due to people such as yourself who "pitch in" when needed. Please help us to fulfill this much needed mission as soon as possible. Thank you SO very much!

Dios le bendiga grandemente en a su familia y ministerio.

Casa de Servicio, International
Aviation Medical Evacuation and Support

Richard Becton
308 Waterville Dr SE
Cleveland, TN 37323
210 392-9574
flight@flash.net
http://www.casadeservicio.org/blog/
http://www.casadeservicio.org
Church of God, World Missions project # 065-0497