Hope for Healing

In the heart of Mexico, medical flights serve as lifelines for indigenous communities. Often times, in the remote villages, a flight can be the difference between life and death as it can take multiple hours or even days to make it to medical help. Just recently UIMA was able to answer the call and prepared the aircraft to transport three women and a baby in need of urgent care.

The youngest passenger, an infant wrapped snugly in her mother’s shawl, struggled with a chesty cough, and her fever had spiked dangerously high. Her breaths came in labored, rattling gasps that worried her mother. Sickness in general is never good but when the patient is an infant, it always seems worse and tugs at your heart. 

Directly behind the pilots sat another young woman, who was just 15 years old and three or four months pregnant. A few days prior, she had begun to feel pain and began to seek help as the pain intensified. As she was further along, the fear of a miscarriage was greater. 

UIM Aviation has seen countless flights like this, where each passenger carried their story, their fears, and the hope for healing. As they landed and passed the young woman to the medical staff, they shared their quiet prayers for both mother and child.

Days later, they received an update. The young girl had been given medication and ordered bed rest, her baby safe for now. Her family had originally planned to bring her back to the village on a rough journey of buses and dirt bikes. But instead, Nathan and Kevin would fly her back once she was strong enough.

In moments like these, we know and understand that our aircraft are more than a mode of transportation. To the people, it may only be a sign of hope but to us, we know that it is a way for us to show and share the true hope with have in Jesus. Please be praying with us as we encounter these individuals seeking hope.