(ChurchLeaders) Stuart King, a British World War II veteran who co-founded Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), is being remembered as a determined visionary who changed countless lives. King, who died August 29 at age 98, combined his passions of airplanes and Christian outreach to assist people in some of the world’s poorest, hardest-to-reach locations.
When MAF began in 1945, Africa was the focus of its flights. Now it is the world’s largest humanitarian airline, flying 138 planes to 1,400 remote locations in 26 developing countries. MAF partners with more than 2,000 aid organizations, including the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Red Cross, and Samaritan’s Purse.