A former airline pilot who saw the \u2018face of Christ\u2019 in the people he met after landing in some of the poorest areas of the world has been ordained a deacon.<\/p>\n
[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.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople used to ask me \u2018can you see heaven when you are pilot?\u2019 and I would answer \u2018frankly no\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWherever I was going \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not so much seeing heaven in the skies as in the faith of the people that I met once I had landed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pilot swaps a life in the skies for parish ministry<\/p>\n A former airline pilot who saw the \u2018face of Christ\u2019 in the people he met after landing in some of the poorest areas of the world has been ordained a deacon.<\/p>\n Read more ➡️ https:\/\/t.co\/EORb8Sof4y<\/a><\/p>\n — Canterbury Diocese (@CanterburyDio) June 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n