NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

Last Friday we made the move  to the Interface campus. We were so excited to unload our suitcases for the last time! We are sooo tired of those suitcases! It had been 8 months that we had been living out of those bags…needless to say we were ready to be settled again. We are living in a wonderful house on the ITF campus. We couldn’t have imagined anything better for our family. After unloading the bags off the top of the Land Cruiser we began unloading all of the bins we had shipped back in December. Have you ever packed up most of your belongings and your kid’s belongings for 8 months? You should try it sometime! It was so much fun to open all those bins and boxes to see all of our familiar things. The kids had a blast finding all of their long lost toys and books! The looks of excitement on their faces were priceless. It’s taken a few days, but we finally feel like we are able to start settling in to life here at ITF (Interface). We have been able to get out into the villages to meet some of the people and begin to learn our way around. We will continue our language and culture learning here with the Bena people. Drew usually starts his day up in the village around 6:30 a.m. He has to be up there early in order to catch the men before they head out. He spends a few hours there and then comes home to study more language and culture. I try to start school with the kids by 9:00 a.m. We finish around 11:30 and after lunch I go into the village with another lady to practice the language. We usually stay in the village for a few hours and then I come back home to start dinner. I try to fit language study in whenever possible. Drew will not start any responsibilities with his role here at ITF until he has reached a high level of language learning. So he is a full time language learner right now! The kids and I are beginning to feel comfortable with home schooling. It’s been a good reminder to me of why I went into teaching. I really do enjoy it! Life has changed so dramatically for us, yet we are still serving the same God. Some how we as a family have been sustained and held up by that. It is amazing how God continues to fill the voids we should have here. We are so far from all that is familiar to us, but the familiarity of our Heavenly Father is more than enough to make up for those unfamiliar things. He is faithful and kind to us even when we don’t deserve it.

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