NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

Semester is done. Commencement is over…students are gone. The celebration was wonderful with great speeches by Abbey and Taylor. Pastor Cliff gave a great word of encouragement and challenge to all and the music stirred our emotions. There is one last event with our staff in-service training next week and the final wrap up for the semester!

It has been a hectic year with many challenges and great blessings.

Megan graduated from Camdenton High School and is now working with great anticipation for college in the fall. She hopes to attend Biola University but it will take a miraculous provision from the Lord for her to attend.

Thank you for your faithful love, prayers and financial support that allows us to serve the Lord at our Missionary Training Center here at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Blessings!

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Praise God for the Olive Branch church partners who helped install the walls of our new campus building this week!

Once completed this building will be a great tool to help us train the next generation of tribal church planters world-wide.

Thank God for what he is doing here on the Lake of the Ozarks…through His people…equipping others to bring the life changing Gospel message to isolated people.

Thank you for your part that enables us to be a part of what God is doing here on the Lake and around the world.

Grateful and blessed today!

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Martin Luther stood for truth over 500 years ago and translated the Bible for the common people of Germany! Carolyn and I had the privilege to visit the place where He spent his time working day and night to see this happen. We are thankful he did this translation as we have God’s word in our language today. This is why we equip others in training the next generation of church planters so they can bring Gods word to least reached people groups too.

Thank you for your part in praying and giving so we can go and train others to go in our place. God is still bringing His light and life of the word to remote villages and changing lives today.

Team teaching with co-workers Adam and Laura this week was sweet. Canadians, Aussies, Koreans and Chinese…along with Americans trained to share their vision of ministry for the Gospel world-wide.

Strategies were prayed and planned for throughout the week. It will take a team.

Pray for these students and staff that a new fresh passion for the Cross will be ignited in their hearts!

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Ministry Time: On Dec. 16 our Missionary Training Center will celebrate the graduation of our missionary candidates. These students have been involved in an intensive 3 semester program which has equipped them to bring the Gospel to the least reached people around the world. God answers prayer and continues to send out servants into the harvest. Thank you for your love, prayers and strong support that allows us to serve the Lord at our training center as we continue to equip the next generation of tribal church planters world-wide! We could not do this without your support.

What some of our missionaries say about the training they received from us here in NTM.

“Tribal church planting is not something we could have just figured out to do on our own. We got the essential tools necessary for doing cross-cultural church planting in areas with no written language. Without this training we would be still spinning our wheels today.” (Rich and Karen Brown serve in Indonesia among the Moi people group)

Family Time: Kevin and Haily celebrated their 1 year anniversary in Oct. and are now expecting our first grand-baby this Feb! We love our growing Meyers family.

Brian graduated from Shepherds College in June and is doing great. He is now employed by the college in their student life dept. helping mentor students.

Megan continues to bring us joy with her bubbly personality. She is a senior graduating this May and making plans for college.

Carolyn works hard with the MK Care and Ed. dept. She focuses specifically on child protection. She and Megan enjoy serving in AWANA.

Dave has had a challenging year with his heart attack and recovery! His leadership, teaching and development of the overall USA training and the campus expansion is exciting.  This will be a special Christmas together knowing that things could have turned out so different.  Thank you God for the gift of life!

Prayer: For continued good health, growth, sensitivity to God in our lives as He guides our family and ministry with staff, students, church and the community.

Give: We are grateful for your faithful prayers and financial support. All year end gifts can still be sent to our FL home office at – NTM 1000 E First St., Sanford, FL 32771 or made online at: www.ntm.org/dave-meyers/give

Thank you for your love, care, prayers and support this past year.

May you have a very Merry Christmas!

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“What factors in ministry in a remote location could contribute to child abuse occurring? What strategies can you put in place so that you are not vulnerable?” These are a few of the questions Carolyn presented in class for the students to discuss and work through in their minds and hearts. These are important issues to consider in the complex world of missions that many people don’t think through.

Effective ministry worldwide is much more than just learning language and culture and presenting the Gospel. There needs to be holistic training and other strategies implemented so teams of cross cultural workers can effectively accomplish their goals in remote areas of the world.

Pray for Carolyn and her child protection team as they help prepare the next generation of church planters!

Pray for the students as they consider this area of their training.

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Update – 4.27.11

Dear Friends,

We landed in MO Thursday night through a thunderstorm. Lightning flashed outside the airplane window, huge thunderheads, and turbulence. Somehow, it seemed like a fitting way to end our journey.

Megan stood waiting for us in the garage as we pulled in. Brian, his roommate, Pieter, and our dear friend, Jackie, welcomed us next. It was late… but we were home!! Sitting around the living room, we discussed what happened the day of the heart attack. Brian and Megan chimed in, giving details of where they were when I told them the news and how they processed it. Sleep didn’t come until after midnight.

The next morning we took in the outdoors noticing that everything had sprung to life. We had left when the trees were bare and returned to leaves and blossoms. Even a robin had built a nest in our clematis plant, thinking the house was quiet and vacant. Life was all around us! Beautiful! Very Significant!

We met with our general doctor later that morning. Having read the reports and having heard Dave explain in his own words what had happened April 1st, our doctor just shook his head and said, “I spend most of my time as a doctor downplaying drama so I’m not trying to be dramatic here, but you are a very fortunate man; seriously, it really could have played out differently. Wow!”

Life is so precious! We especially felt the blessing of life this Easter! Dave would have experienced life either way that April morning – all because of what we celebrate on Easter. The significance of our Savior’s sacrificial death for us and His resurrected life is everything!! We have life only through Him! So Amazing! So Miraculous!

We went to see our local cardiologist yesterday; Dave will begin Cardiac Rehab with a consultation tomorrow and rehab three times a week. We continue to appreciate your prayers for us through all of this. We are very, very grateful people!!!

With much love and thanks, Carolyn for us both

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” Colossians 3:1-4