NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

For a while now we have heard things like; “All of the ancient calendars end in 2012″, “2012 will usher in the end of the world”, “2012 the world ends”… WELL…

For us 2012 is only… “THE END”… of our time in New York!

(We already miss our friends and family back home)

2012

is actually THE BEGINNING of our time in Wisconsin!

so…

Hello from the New Tribes Bible Institute in Waukesha! (http://ntbi.org/)

After a great time with family and friends over Christmas and New Years, as well as saying our final “good-byes” to our home church (http://www.northbaptist.org/); we hurried around our little house in NY to pack up all that we had…

here we sit in Waukesha unpacking all that we have.

Over the last 6 years God has always shown Himself strong enough to take good care of us! We are loved by and serve the Only True God!

Our kids are adjusting well, they have all taken part in traveling down 4 flights of stairs to do laundry… partly because it will text you when your load is done. (Crazy right… but true).

We have been welcomed at NTBI with open arms and excitement. We are attempting to settle our new apartment quickly, but when you haven’t seen 3/4 of our stuff for almost 2 years it takes a while to go through it and decide where it will go and whether or not you still need it.

Classes here at NTBI start next week, so there are new students and returning students arriving daily. Becki and I will be giving our testimonies during “Student Leadership Kickoff”. We have 45 minutes to share what God has done in our lives, we are excited to be used by God in this way, to encourage and help our fellow believers walk with Christ!

“The Gospel is spread by those whose life is being transformed by it!”

Allow the Spirit through the Word of God to transform the way you think, to renew your mind, so that we might reach those who have never heard of Jesus Christ!

We love God because HE FIRST loved us.

Our prayer is that 2012 will be a year of growing deeply in your walk with and trust in Christ!

Remember and take confidence in the Word of God!

Book of Revelation- That’s how things play out!

There are times in all of our lives when God clearly asks us to follow Him without knowing where our foot will land, how things will work out or even what He has planned for us.

Again, God is asking us to take a step of faith with Him.

The first time was when we put our house on the market and to begin missionary training with New Tribes Mission to reach the world with the Gospel, which was kicked off at the New Tribes Bible Institute.

Now, he is asking us to follow Him back to the Bible Institute this January in order to begin investing in the future generations of missionaries. When last we were at the BI (Bible Inst.) we were the ones being invested in… God has brought us full circle so that we can invest in others.

As you know we have been raising support for the last 2 years in order to begin this new phase of ministry. God has been so gracious to us that we are currently at 50% of our needed support! He is so good. Our leadership at NTBI has asked us to begin serving in January 2012, even though we are not at our recommended support level of 70%. The need is great at the BI and the desire is to have every student there invested in, so we have agreed to come in January!

Our need for 70% is real and necessary… here is where God is asking us to step out in faith again. We believe that God has much to teach us about Him and about our lack of faith in Who He is! So we are trusting Him to show Himself strong to us and for us as we give Him our hearts completely.

Would you join us in praying for our kids, our ministry, our move and our marriage?

Kids: Adjusting to yet another move to another new school district, apartment and city.

Ministry: That God would use us in the lives of everyone at NTBI, students and staff. Also that we would fill the areas that God wants us to in order to reach the unreached of the world.

Move: We are going to move in the middle of winter… and we will be driving around Erie, Cleveland, Chicago adn Milwaukee… You know how to pray for that one I’m sure

Marriage: Becki and I will have “new” stresses placed on our marriage from reorganizing our new home to purchasing new appliances/furniture to balancing family life and ministry. Asking God to grow us toward Him and toward each other, for each of us to be aware of meeting each others needs and that we would not loss sight of our kids a midst the ever pressing needs in ministry.

Thanks so much. We do praise God for you!

John, Becki and family.