A former airline pilot who saw the ‘face of Christ’ in the people he met after landing in some of the poorest areas of the world has been ordained a deacon.
[The] Rev Joshua Pollard worked for easyJet and then Virgin Atlantic over 11 years after qualifying as a pilot when he was 21 years old. He flew to European destinations and later on long haul routes all over the world, including the Caribbean, the US, Africa and India.
“People used to ask me ‘can you see heaven when you are pilot?’ and I would answer ‘frankly no’,” he said.
“Wherever I was going – and sometimes we were flying to some pretty tough and poor places, with people living in real hardship – it was through the people that I could see the face of Christ.
“It was not so much seeing heaven in the skies as in the faith of the people that I met once I had landed.”
Pilot swaps a life in the skies for parish ministry
A former airline pilot who saw the ‘face of Christ’ in the people he met after landing in some of the poorest areas of the world has been ordained a deacon.
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