MADDOCK – On Sunday, Aug. 6, the JT Rice North Dakota Chapter of Pilots for Christ will be holding its 11th Annual Golf Ball Drop and Celebration Fly-in.

Free golf ball drop tickets will be distributed on the day of the event. The event also will have an all-faith service, featured speakers, music and complementary lunch. Following the golf ball drop, there will be airplane rides and helicopter rides.

The service starts at 10 a.m., with lunch and the ball drop to follow.

The organization is anticipating an attendance of 250-300 for the celebration. The 3,000-foot concrete runway and new taxiway will accommodate a wide variety of airplanes to land at the Maddock Airport. In previous years, pilots have flown in from Wyoming, Washington, Michigan, South Dakota and from throughout North Dakota.

The JT Rice-North Dakota Chapter of Pilots for Christ serves North Dakota, with free urgent air and ground transportation, with focused service on ambulatory patients seeking treatment at distant medical locations, terminally ill patients seeking to return home to family, pastors and missionaries within the scope of their duties, with additional considerations to veterans, and the general population with valid urgent transportation needs.

The organization is always in need of pilots willing to help serve citizens of North Dakota who are in need.

The annual golf ball drop and fly-in is a way for members to give back in appreciation of all that has been given to them through donations of time, talent, resources and funding.