NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

Well in either a few days or a couple of weeks, we will be enjoying the WARM weather of west new britain.  Warm may not be the strongest word in this situation as we hear that the NTM center on the island of West New Britain is one of the hottest places to visit in PNG!  Did I mention there is a beach near by?

You may find yourself asking, “Why are you going to the island’s of PNG?”  Well we have been looking through many possible locations to be able to serve as church planters and one of those locations is an island that is close to West New Britain.  We have expressed our interest in this location and because of that we were asked to consider to come down to the conference which would give us a venue to talk with the missionaries who have served on the islands.

You see once a year missionaries will meet together at these conferences to be able to share with each other in both praises and prayers that have come from their time serving.  Now during this time we will be able to get a a better understanding of what the differences would be, as far as living goes.  for example we would need to find out about the practicality of using a boat as a mode of transportation.  also we would desire to find some of the more practical aspects of designing a house to live in.  But what i think is the most important thing is that we can secretly evaluate if these people are “normal” and than we know how weirs we may become!  (yes i am joking)

We are excited for this time as it brings new knowledge and will only help to increase our “informed” decision making process.

other news

We were blown away by the greatness of God’s church!  This week we were informed that Calvary Chapel in Lansing, Michigan has decided to support our house building project in multiple ways.  They are looking to send 2-3 house builders to help with the hands on building.  ( i think they know that if i was to do it the house would look like something from a dr. suess book).  along with the workers they also sent $5,000 to purchasing the materials to build the house.  This is major exciting as we are realizing more and more the power of God.  Thanks so much for your commitment to this work and to the following of God’s leading.

Karis is now officially 2!  We are helping her fill out applications to get a job and negotiating room and board conditions and we believe this will help her understand and mature the right way.  If you think that this is ridiculous well your right!  Isn’t it funny how quickly we realize when we try to teach, in the wrong way, how to live physically but ignore it when we try to teach in the wrong way to be able to live spiritually?  We know that to try to teach Karis how to fill out job applications and rent forms at the age of 2 is a waste because she hasn’t matured to that stage of life yet.  But what about trying to teach the deeper things of the spiritual life to someone who is an infant in Christ?

Karis’ birthday was pretty low key but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t enjoyable.  we woke up in the morning and Noah wanted to give his present to karis right away.  Noah had got karis a pacjkage of peanut m&m’s and wrapped it for her the night before.  he was pretty proud of it.  Karis got to open a present that we had shipped on our container that she had seen numerous times waiting for her in the closest.  nothing like staring at a present for months to help create excitement.  Karis has definitely increased her vocabulary (that only her parents can understand).  She will say “pretty, mama, dada, come, please, pray, water, bottle, baby NO!, okay and thank you”

  

Noah's present for Karis

Hello all,

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april 2012

I know I know I know… Noah’s birthday was almost a month ago and i am just now putting pictures about it.  well you know what they say “better late than never.”

For Noahs B-day we attached 2 tarps and added alot of soap and water and wa-la a slip n’ slide.  We later learned that this slide would later be the cause of Noah getting massively sun burnt.  For his next birthday we will not be making it as fun that way he wont want to stay outside and get burnt.

And of course Noah could not resist spraying Mr. Dave with the hose.  Too bad Mr. Dave has a trough full of water.  You can imagine what happened next.

After play time was food time.  When you ask a 4 year old child what he wants to eat for his birthday you might here “PIZZA”

This was Faye’s first B-day cake.  I am gonna say that she did amazing.  I think Linsey would be proud of it.

And to finish the day off… PRESENTS!

at the end of the day Noah had a blast his friends had a blast and they all went to bed early so the parents had a blast.

Would you like to pray with us?  Would you like to pray for us?  Could you share your prayer needs with us?

One of the most resounding practices for Christians that God wrote to us in His word is prayer, because of the great power that he has and the great love he has for us we are granted the privilege of having His ear ready to hear our words from us.  When you stop to think about the fact that the most powerful entity in this universe (and beyond) wants to hear our request and to answer them… well that’s beyond amazing.

So we would like to share you are prayer request and maybe you could talk to God about these things on our behalf.

• Allocation – As a team we are currently looking for the location in which God has chosen for us to minister to.  God’s word says that before the foundation of the world God had prepared good works for us.  We believe that God has already prepared a place for us to minister to and now we need to rest in Him and wait upon Him to receive the word on where to go.  We are praying for wisdom and guidance on the decision process.
• Family – pray that as a family we make sure not to neglect the needs of each other and remember that ministering to our family is one of the first ministries God gave us.
• House building – After we locate where we will minister we will need to focus on building a place to live.  The process of building a house is not cheap unfortunately.  While we will try to build our house using some bush materials, the reality is that there are many things that we won’t be able to “get by” with.  Building a house in PNG could potentially require the use of helicopters to bring materials to the building site, which is a crazy high fuel bill.  But before that can happen we first have to purchase the materials, which is also crazy high.  Please pray that we will be able to not only raise the funds to buy the materials but that we could find the materials as well.
• health – Karis’ foot has a small infection on one of her toes and while it is something that we can take care of, it seems that this may be a reoccurring thing as her feet develop small cracks and she loves to take her shoes off.  Pray that we will notice these infections before they cause her pain.