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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.

“But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. ³⁸ Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” (ESV. Luke 20.37-38)

GOD IS THE GOD OF THE LIVING!

We MUST share this with the whole world. All of mankind needs to know what God has done for us through Jesus Christ His Son!

Are you remaining Kingdom minded? Remember when you first believed in Christ as your Savior? Didn’t you want to tell everyone that you came in contact with?!?

Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit writes, “God our Savior… desires all men (mankind) to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

And Jesus himself said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Mt. 28.19-20)

Let’s keep going in making disciples of all nations!

Let’s be single-minded for the sake of the Gospel!

We ARE co-laborers with Christ!

Let’s together reach those who have NEVER BEEN TOLD!

That is what our Savior wants from us!

Look around you. Where has God placed you right now? Are they people around you who have yet to be told? Are they people around you who don’t yet believe?

Can we trust that God wants them saved? If so, what are you doing to reach them?

Trust God and go for it,

tell them!

We thank God for you and what He is doing in you and through you!

Take up your cross and follow Him.

The kids have been in school for over a month now and are enjoying it as much as any kid can enjoy school, I think.

Tori graduated last June but has 3 NYS required classes to finish before Nov. 1st. She had to take English, Economics and Gym (90 gym classes!!) She finished the Economics final earlier this week and is plugging away at the other 2 classes now. Pray that she stays focused and is able to complete them by Nov. 1st.
Chloe, she is enjoying 7th grade although she will tell you that the kids in her school are “really not nice” She normally gets all of her work done at school in her study hall time, so she has no homework to do most evenings. Being a 7th grader means that she can attend youth group now, which she has also enjoyed so far this year.
Ellie, she is in 6th grade now and goes to the same school as Chloe. A few weeks ago she came home and asked “Can I join the after school Robotics club?” WHAT? AFTER school??? Really, Ellie wants to stay at school longer? (that’s what I had to ask myself!) So she is now part of the robotics club… they use Legos to build robots in order to work out a set of scenarios. She is loving it!!! The teacher just added another half hour on to the class… Ellie is excited about that.
Derek is in 2nd grade and came home a few days ago and asked “dad, do I have $15?” “Why?” I said. “because I want to buy my friend a watch like mine. He really likes it.” “Sorry, buddy, you don’t have $15 but we can see if they are on sale next time we go to Target.” Well, we went to Target after his birthday party on Sunday and he used his birthday money to buy his friend a watch just like his.
The things children do can be trying, encouraging and challenging all at the same time. But thank God for them!

Becki and I have been asking God about what He wants us to do as we push forward in our desire to serve at the New Tribes Bible Institute (www.ntbi.org). We are looking for people and places to share our ministry with and for those who would be willing to join our ministry team, through prayer and/or financial support.

We have to be on site at the Bible Institute on Jan. 1, 2012! Which means we have ONLY 12 weeks left in which to raise the rest of our much needed support!
Please be in prayer for us in this (honestly) stressful  time.

If you would be interested in helping out financially, just click the “Support financially” link to the right —->

Thanks again,

Serving His Body to Reach the Unreached,

John and Becki