“This relocation has been the single largest project in our 60-year history, and we are already experiencing the benefits of the move,” said Kevin Swanson, MAF president. “The expanded training and support facility has given us room to grow, as we prepare to send new missionaries and as we support our families already serving worldwide.”

Key decision makers from the world’s international missions organizations will meet at the new MAF headquarters Oct. 18-19 to determine how to work together to effectively use the results of the recent MAF landmark study, “Operation ACCESS!,” for global missions.

The five-year study (www.operationaccessmaf.org)  focuses on pockets of people who are forgotten or heretofore unreachable. It identifies areas where transportation, communications and technology barriers prevent or impede access to the Gospel or to sustained resources needed to enable community development, healthcare and educational services.

The study’s critical, unprecedented information is expected to shape international evangelism, ministry and humanitarian strategies for the next 20 years.

MAF pilots fly approximately 40,000 flights a year, transporting missionaries, medical personnel, medicines and relief supplies, as well as conducting thousands of emergency medical evacuations. MAF also provides telecommunications services, including satellites, high-frequency radios, e-mail and other wireless systems, in isolated areas.