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Showing God's love through aviation services in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea. Visit our website www.samaritanaviation.org

Samaritan Aviation exists to demonstrate God’s love by providing aviation and medical services in remote areas. Operating some of the only floatplanes in Papua New Guinea, we serve those living in the East Sepik province through emergency life flights, medicine delivery, disaster relief and community health programs.

10/21/2026

No roads. No runway. No ambulance. In remote Papua New Guinea, a river is the only way in and often the only way out. Swipe to see what that means when a medical emergency happens. Join the mission at samaritanaviation.org

10/20/2026

In remote villages, there is no hope of reaching help in time when a medical emergency strikes. Geography and a lack of access to care leaves many at the mercy of their circumstances. But that’s where you come in. You can help us provide emergency transportation and the love of Christ in a family’s scariest moments. You may not fly the plane, but you can help it take off. Give today at samaritanaviation.org.

10/19/2026

Hope can't wait. In remote Papua New Guinea, a medical emergency can mean days by canoe to reach the hospital. Samaritan Aviation turns rivers into runways so patients can reach care much faster, completely free of charge. But none of it is possible without your support. Over the next 10 weeks, we will be diving deeper into how hope reaches the river and how you make it possible. Join the mission today at samaritanaviation.org.

10/16/2026

Every mission needs people who show up when the crisis hits.

The villages we serve don't get to schedule their emergencies. They don't know when a pregnancy will become complicated, when a child will stop responding, or when a boat accident will leave someone fighting for their life on the riverbank. But because of Compassion Crew, we don't have to wait to be ready. We already are.

Compassion Crew is our community of monthly givers who make consistent, faithful generosity their contribution to this mission. For $19 a month, you're not just donating, you're part of the team. You're the reason hope arrives in time.

Join us at compassioncrew.org.

10/15/2026

Naulo Yamo knew what it meant to walk with God long before she arrived at Boram Hospital.

Back in Nakui, she had been part of a New Tribes Mission church plant, a congregation of believers meeting in one of the most remote corners of Papua New Guinea. Her faith was not new. It was not borrowed. It was hers, built over time in a village most people will never find on a map.

But faith doesn't make the body immune to illness.

Tuberculosis had taken hold, and by the time Naulo made it to May River for pickup, it had taken nearly everything from her. She couldn't walk. She couldn't sit up. She couldn't speak or eat. Severe back pain had reduced a woman of deep faith to stillness, unable to do anything but endure.

Pilot Mark Palm flew her from May River to Boram Hospital in Wewak.

Treatment began. And then, slowly, she began to take things back.

First her voice returned. Then she could eat. Then sit up on her own. Then walk to the bathroom, a small distance that, after where she had been, felt like something worth celebrating. The back pain that had defined her days resolved.

The hospital ministry team visited Naulo during her recovery. In many ways, she was already familiar with the story they carried. But hearing Scripture in a challenging season, being prayed over in a hospital ward far from her village church, it met her somewhere deep. Here was a woman who had spent years walking with God, now flat on her back, and discovering that He was just as present in the hospital ward as He had ever been in her little church by the river.

She hadn't stopped walking with Him. He hadn't stopped walking with her.

Naulo was discharged and made her way back to Nakui, back to her village, her church, and the community of believers who had been praying for her return. A woman who had arrived unable to speak, eat, or move, walking out of Boram Hospital on her own two feet. A testament, if there ever was one, to the healing hands of God.

Thank you for making sure she could get there.

10/14/2026

Some stories deserve more than a scroll.

Three Samaritan Aviation supporters traveled halfway around the world to see the mission firsthand. But what they experienced was more than they ever expected.

From lifesaving emergency flights to moments of prayer and connection, they witnessed what it really means to bring help and hope to remote communities in Papua New Guinea.

Their journey is just one of the stories featured in the October edition of The Dispatch, our monthly newsletter.

Go beyond the photos and discover the stories behind the mission. Subscribe to The Dispatch today!

10/13/2026

Jonny Judas weighed almost nothing.

Six months old, and his small frame was already losing a battle it shouldn't have had to fight. Pneumonia had settled into his lungs. Malnutrition had stripped away what little reserve he had. Anemia had left him pale and fragile.

His mother had carried him to help the only way available to her, and Pilot Nick had flown them from Angoram to Boram Hospital in Wewak, covering in minutes a journey that by canoe would have consumed the better part of a day.

The medical team began treatment. Jonny was admitted to the ward and stayed.

And while he recovered, something unexpected began to take shape around him.

The mothers on the ward, each one there for her own reason and carrying her own worry, found themselves gathered around the King of Glory series. Scripture brought to life on screen, told in the languages they grew up speaking. Then the ministry team brought a tablet loaded with the full King of Glory video series, and the women watched it together from beginning to end.

When it was over, they said it had been helpful. Encouraging. That they had greatly enjoyed it.

There is something worth picturing in that. A hospital ward full of mothers, far from home, tired and uncertain, finding themselves genuinely moved by the story of God told in their own words. The weight of the week didn't disappear. But it was carried differently after that.

Jonny responded to his medicine.

The little boy who had arrived barely holding on was well enough to go home.

His mother left with her son healthy in her arms and the Word of God tucked into her heart. For a six-month-old who had arrived barely holding on, that is more than enough to be grateful for.

Thank you for making it possible.

10/12/2026

Did you know that many of the aid posts we supply would not be able to keep their doors open without our deliveries?

In rural Papua New Guinea, aid posts are often the only source of medical care for entire communities, small, under-resourced facilities staffed by dedicated health workers doing their best with what they have. When supplies run out, the doors close. And when the doors close, there is simply nowhere left to go.

Samaritan Aviation works alongside the provincial health system to ensure these posts stay stocked with the medicine and supplies they need to keep serving their communities. We fly in what the roads can't carry and deliver what the canoes can't get there in time. This is some of the most important work we do because a fully stocked aid post means access to essential health care every day.

10/08/2026

Three days is a long time to wait when something is wrong.

Silvia Ako knew it. Her body knew it. But in Angoram, with no hospital nearby and a retained placenta that wasn't resolving on its own, waiting was the only option available, until it wasn't.

Angoram sits nearly 70 kilometers from Wewak. By canoe along the Sepik, that's the better part of a day. For a woman three days postpartum, low on blood, and quietly deteriorating, it was a journey her body could not have made.

Pilot Nick flew Silvia to Boram Hospital.

She arrived depleted. The retained placenta had been slowly taking from her what she couldn't afford to lose, and her blood levels reflected every one of those three days. Before surgery could even be considered, she needed a transfusion, her body had to be brought back to a place where it could withstand what came next.

She waited. She received the blood she needed.

Then the medical team took her into surgery, where the remaining tissue was carefully removed. The thing that had been quietly threatening her life for three days was finally gone.

And Silvia began to breathe easier, in every sense.

The hospital ministry team visited her during her recovery, sitting with her, praying over her and her newborn, and sharing the Word of God with a woman who had spent three days in the shadow of something serious and had come through the other side.

Mom recovered well. Her baby was healthy beside her.

Both were discharged home together to live a life that would've otherwise been impossible without your help. Thank you for making sure Silvia got the care she needed.

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4710 E Falcon Drive, STE 217
Mesa, AZ
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+14805811940

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http://samaritanaviation.org/

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