GroundCrew Issue - December 1997 - Page Four

Director's Desk - Dwight Jarboe

It seems that lately my plate has been full of alphabet soup. Actually, I would use a bowl for soup, but I refer to the many alphabet soup governmental agencies interested in how MMS conducts itself. FAA, INS, IRS, EPA, BWC and others influence the decisions we make every day. This is not a complaint, but a recognition that, like any business, we must follow the rules.

Having finished a major revision of our Repair Station Manual this Fall for the Federal Aviation Administration, we moved right into communication with the Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding visas for international students. Sometimes we get so involved doing, it is easy to forget about being. So, occasionally, I stop and reflect on who I am and who I am becoming.

Vocationally, most of us at MMS are aircraft mechanics. I recently read in a trade magazine what Bill O'Brien wrote about mechanics. Mr. O'Brien is the airworthiness program manager for the FAA in Washington, D.C. He wrote, "... aviation maintenance personnel work in a technically complex, ethically based, sometimes hazardous, physically hard, and always intellectually challenging profession."

More importantly, we are Christ's ambassadors. You are probably familiar with what the Apostle Paul wrote about all who have been reconciled to God through Christ. He wrote, "We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us." (2 Corinthians 5:20 NIV)

Here at MMS, we are aircraft mechanics, administrators, secretaries and bookkeepers. We are also Christ's ambassadors with the privilege and responsibility to speed God's message of reconciliation to people in remote places through aviation.

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