David and Laurel Stobbe

Serving with Ethos Canada, in Papua New Guinea, with their children Stephen, Timothy, and Talia, since July 2024.

Growing up close to Edmonton, Alberta, David has always loved airplanes. He started working towards his private pilot’s license immediately after high school; going on to earn a degree in mission aviation from Prairie Bible College. 

Papua New Guinea is a very mountainous country. Its foreboding landscape means that over 75% of the indigenous churches that Ethnos is planting in the country are only accessible by air. Without Ethnos360 Aviation, church-planting teams would not be able to live and work with the ethnic groups who live in these extremely remote regions. There are people groups still waiting to hear the gospel for the first time, and we are thrilled to be part of the team that is being Christ’s witnesses “to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8