Keith and Jan Anderson

Keith and Jan Anderson work at Mission Aviation Fellowship. They have returned to MAF twenty-six years after serving two terms in Venezuela and Guatemala. The in-between years were spent gaining valuable experience teaching aviation classes at a university, doing maintenance and flight operations in Uganda, working on aircraft design and customer service development, and being involved in additional leadership positions at an aircraft modification company and a flight simulator company.  Keith has returned to MAF as the International Director of Maintenance.

Jan grew up in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area in a Christian home and a church that introduced her to the loving grace of Christ at an early age. She was involved with helping in children’s ministries from an early age, but it wasn’t until her time at John Brown University that she felt the Lord leading her towards missions. This was confirmed at an Urbana Missions Conference, which is also where she met Keith. They were married after they graduated from college.

Keith’s parents were with MAF and served in Mexico for seventeen years. It was during his growing up years that Keith felt the Lord leading him towards mission aviation. This desire was cultivated as he saw the tremendous way that the airplane helped people around him. Keith was eight years old when he said to the Lord that unless He led in a different direction, he would go down the path of mission aviation. The Lord opened those doors for Keith and Jan, resulting in service with MAF.

The Andersons’ have three adult children and four grandchildren, scattered across Washington, Idaho, and Iowa. They and their spouses pursue a variety of fields, from coaching, to engineering, and working with special needs children.