Oshkosh 2009

Oshkosh was a great success this year! Many opportunities to fellowship with other mission aviation groups, individual Samaritan supporters, and network with several new people.

Left to right: Mark Palm, Ambassador Evan Paki, Gary Bustin & Tom Hamilton.

Our wonderful host family, Bill & Linda!

An evening of fellowship, group dinner & Samaritan presentation.

The Spirit of Paradise was on static display at the main base this year. We were one of many organizations representing IAMA's "Fly for Life" theme this year, highlighting the humanitarian work we do with our aircraft.

Samaritan's 7th Annual Golf Tournament & Dinner/Auction Fundraiser!

Over 150 poeple attended the dinner and 26 teams showed up to golf! We were blessed to have raised nearly $30,000 from this event which will go towards our first year's operations in Papua New Guinea!!!

Kristi Ward was our guest speaker for the evening. It was really neat to hear part of her & Eric's story. To read more about Eric, visit our homepage.

Co-founders Mark Palm (right) and Gary Bustin (left) gave a presentation in Pidgin, one of the native languages in Papua New Guinea.

Boars head tucked away in the brush representing authentic wild animals in PNG for the evening's theme "Spirit of Paradise".

A hut was built by one of our volunteers to give a more native feel & help represent again the theme of the evening.