Jay and Lisa Franicevich Training this Generation of Church Planters Students, Students Everywhere!
As we write the campus is coming alive as students are pulling in and getting settled into to their apartments in order to start the new semester this coming Monday. The Missionary Training Center here will have 142 students on campus. The great majority of which will be new students and a dozen or so will be returning students who will be receiving further training in Linguistics. We’d ask your prayers for all of them as they get back “into the grove” of studying and preparing for the greatest job on earth! J
We’d also ask your prayers for us as staff. The starting of this semester marks a historic event in the history of New Tribes Mission. With the beginning of this semester we will be kicking off the new integrated program and are very excited about that! We do have things pretty well hammered out for the first couple of semesters but still have work to do on second couple of semesters. Needless to say it is going to be a busy year for all involved and we’d appreciate your prayers.
On the Road and in the Air!!
I would also like to ask for your prayers as myself and a fellow colleague will be away at our International Headquarters for meetings this coming week. These meetings will revolve around establishing indigenous churches all around the world. There will be representatives there from many of the countries we work in. Our may goal in being there is to make sure that our training on this end is, and remains, as relevant to what is going on in the area of church planting around the world as possible. Please pray for a profitable time, for travel mercies, and for our families as we are away from them, thanks.
Answered Prayer!!!
Lastly, thanks for praying for Jason and Toni. They are now back in PNG and the tribe carrying on the work there. Jason writes, “While we were gone, the church continued to meet and Raymond taught them thru II Thessalonians and the first 6 chapters of Revelation. We are very pleased with Raymond’s faithfulness and for the continuing desire of some to know God’s Word more. Talk has started again of getting the literacy program going, this time with women students. We are very thankful for the desire to get the literacy program going again, but we want to move ahead wisely. We have had many aborted classes in the past with teachers quitting and students not showing up; we would hate to have a repeat of that. So, please pray that we will have wisdom as to how to get the literacy program going strong and keep it going so that all whole village can learn to read. This is something that is so vital to their spiritual growth and it is a weakness in the church right now.”
As you can see there is a lot to pray about and we are so thankful to have folks like yourself that we can call on to uphold us, and the work, before the Lord in prayer. Once again, we say thanks for the time, energy, and resources you put into standing with us in everyway. God bless you for it as we know He will. Until we talk again, take good care and keep pressing on for Him!!!
Laborers together, Jay, Lisa & Anthony
