Pony Express for the Lord

	Transferring Julio Blanco to aircraft at Warrenton, VA

There are times when conducting flights for the Lord makes you feel like the pony express riders of old. This past month has been one of those times. The Virginia chapter joined with the Florida and North Carolina chapters to transport Julio Blanco from St. Petersburg, Florida to Georgetown University Hospital in Washington D.C. for radiation treatment for spinal cancer.

The Florida chapter picked up Julio Blanco and his wife Helen at Clearwater Airport, St. Petersburg, Florida on February 2^nd and flew them to Sanford, North Carolina where the Carolina Chapter picked them up for the next leg to Manassas Airport, Virginia where an ambulance waited to take them to the hospital in Washington D.C. The plane arrived during the Virginia chapter’s monthly meeting at the Manassas Airport making it possible for chapter members to help in the patient’s transfer from the aircraft to the ambulance. Members also prayed for Julio before his departure to the hospital.

Two weeks later, after Julio’s treatment, the Virginia chapter flew the couple back to Sanford where another Florida aircraft met them to continue the flight back to their home in St. Petersburg.

The transfer at Sanford went like clockwork. When the Virginia aircraft was 6 miles north of Sanford for landing, the Florida plane entered traffic for landing. The patient was transported to the Florida plane in about fifteen minute’s time. The Lord arranges all things well!

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