TO VISIT PAEROA

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 57, Issue 3999, 28 May 1948, Page 10

TO VISIT PAEROA

REV. DAVID HOOD WORLD MISSION PLAN A young Auckland airman’s idea, conceived during the war, is now becoming reality in a movement which in a few years, may be the most extensive missionary service in the world.

A few years ago Flight-Lieutenant Murray Kendon, of Auckland, envisaged mi>sionary stations in Africa,

China, Northern Australia, the Pacific Islands,'being connected by radio and kept supplied by aircraft. He went to London to the Mildmay Centre, international headquarters of the movement for world evangelisation. The centre was interested and a campaign to raise funds for the scheme was started. In a short time, the first missionary aviation fellowship aircraft was making survey flights over vast tracts of Africa and is still engaged on that work, plotting the hundreds of missionary stations, arranging for airstrips to be constructed and preparing for the day when the fellowship’s 20 atrciaft will be operating.

To create wider interest in the scheme which was born in this country. the Rev. David Hood, an executixe of the Mildmay Centre, will be visiting Paeroa on Tuesday, June 1. and wiil be speaking at the Centenary hail at 7.45 p.m.