{"id":32498,"date":"2025-08-18T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=32498"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:09:51","slug":"jaars-celebrates-national-aviation-day-aug-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-carolina\/jaars-celebrates-national-aviation-day-aug-19\/%20","title":{"rendered":"JAARS Celebrates National Aviation Day Aug. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While world missions look very different today than they did in Orville and Wilbur Wright\u2019s day, the impact of the Wright brothers\u2019 invention on global ministry can\u2019t be overstated. JAARS<\/a> (Jungle Aviation and Relay Service), one of the pioneers of missionary aviation, remains one of a very few organizations that can \u201ccover the last mile\u201d so that off-the-grid missionaries can reach the world\u2019s most isolated and marginalized people. Today, in multiple ways, JAARS now provides active support to roughly  one-third of all mission aviation efforts worldwide.  As the U.S. celebrates National Aviation Day on Orville Wright\u2019s birthday, JAARS\u2019 honors its partnerships in the aviation industry that make this work possible.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cBased here in the same state as the famous first flight, we celebrate the Wright Brothers\u2019 extraordinary achievement, making what we do today possible,\u201d said JAARS president Steve Russell, a decorated Army veteran, and former US Representative. \u201cIn addition to our operations using special-purpose aircraft, boats and off-road vehicles to deliver God\u2019s word, to convey missionaries, or to supply villages, we are grateful to collaborate with multiple ministry and aviation partners as we help each other recruit, train, equip, deploy, and sustain the worldwide effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millions of people around the world live beyond the reach of an airline flight, boat charter or bus route, with no access to God\u2019s Word. The distance between these unreached people groups and the Gospel is what JAARS refers to as the \u201clast mile of missions.\u201d JAARS covers this last mile using specialized aircraft, boats and off-road vehicles to reach across these transportation barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JAARS operates in the green band of the world\u2019s rainforest climates. This includes regions with mountainous terrain, wide expanses of open ocean, treacherous rivers and little to no roads, public transportation or communications infrastructure. They carry Bible translators, other missionaries and vital supplies into these communities that are hungry for God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russell explains the purpose for this mission: \u201cWhat we do is difficult, dangerous, and expensive, but we do it because we long to see God\u2019s love and glory overcome all barriers, enabling people from every tribe and tongue to have a relationship with the Creator and to know the truth of His Word.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the aviation industry companies partnering with JAARS in its mission, StarHagen Aerospace and the Anderson family express their support<\/a> for the ministry with their National Aviation Day matching gift. \u201cOur family has committed to match every donation between now and Aug. 19 in honor of National Aviation Day, so that others\u2019 gifts will go twice as far to train mission pilots, maintain aircraft and support Bible translation worldwide,\u201d said Scott and Randi Anderson. \u201cWe believe in this ministry \u2013 it\u2019s changing lives and we are so honored to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Individuals can give toward the National Aviation Day matching gift at www.jaars.org\/match<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While world missions look very different today than they did in Orville and Wilbur Wright\u2019s day, the impact of the Wright brothers\u2019 invention on global ministry can\u2019t be overstated. JAARS (Jungle Aviation and Relay Service), one of the pioneers of missionary aviation, remains one of a very few organizations that can \u201ccover the last mile\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,115,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-north-carolina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32502,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32498\/revisions\/32502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}