Wings for Missionaries

ATTENTION MISSIONARIES LEARN TO FLY Pilot your own plane. Prepare now for the busy postwar period. . . . For complete information write The Missionary Flying School, Tournapull, Ga.--advertisement in the New York Times.

This ad was paid for by the nation's most energetic lay evangelist, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau (TIME, March 25, 1940). Bustling, balding Bob LeTourneau is president of the Gideons--and also of a $26,000,000 corporation making giant earthmovers, mostly road-builders. He regards God as his "business-partner" and brings to his partner's business the same energy and enterprise he gives his own.

Each week air-minded Bob LeTourneau flys some 4,000 miles around the country in one of his planes to hold gospel meetings. Often he takes along a quartet of gospel singers and a soprano. Philanthropoid LeTourneau backs up his evangelistic zeal with the $13,000,000 LeTourneau Foundation.

When returned missionaries told him sad tales about time-wasting, tedious travel through deserts and jungles, Businessman Bob decided to speed up foreign missions with a Missionary Flying School.

Prospective flying missionaries can earn their way through a complete course at the LeTourneau-financed school by working in the LeTourneau earth-mover plant at Toccoa, Ga.

Last week the first four (chosen from 50 applicants) were graduated as full-fledged "sky pilots," planned to spread their several wings over Africa, China and Mexico. Beaming with pride, Bob LeTourneau viewed them as forerunners of a "mighty armada of flying missionaries."

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