Sunday, October 14, 2007

Donald Bruce Starlin


Following graduation from AA, Don earned FAA Pilot and Aircraft Mechanic licenses at AU. He then spent the 1985-86 school year rebuilding a Cessna 180 for the East Peru Mission at the SDA Airbase in the Amazon jungle. Returning from Peru he completed Commercial Pilot training and graduated from AU in 1989 with a BSIT in Aviation and Business.

Dwindling mission aviation opportunities sent Don back to Randall Electric Company, where he resumed his role as a 4th generation electrical contractor. He married Trudi Myaing in 1990, a mission-minded architect on staff with a Maryland architecture firm.

In 1995 an ever-increasing cry from isolated frontier missionaries in desperate need of air support precipitated a meeting of General Conference officers, various mission-focused ministries, aviators and businessmen on the campus of AU. Adventist World Aviation (AWA), an independent supporting ministry was founded, and they called upon Don to lead the fledgling organization.

Don carries responsibility for the electrical business and the five nonprofit corporations he spearheaded whose personnel operate ten aircraft at seven sites in four countries relieving physical suffering, saving lives, offering hope and proclaiming the gospel where people have never heard of the Carpenter from Nazareth. www.flyawa.org




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