Macon and Katy Hare

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Missionary Feet

Posted by Macon and Katy Hare in Ministry on Apr 17th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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The pig and the Bible translator

Posted by Macon and Katy Hare in Ministry on Apr 12th, 2012 | Comments Off
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Leaving the Ordinary

Posted by Macon and Katy Hare in Family, Ministry, News Article on Apr 3rd, 2012 | Comments Off
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Leaving the OrdinaryEarly mornings in Simbariland are a photographer’s paradise. Round houses seem to float in the fog while cooking fires push smoke up through the thatched roofs.

Simbari women scurry to their early morning tasks, wearing unique bark capes. Little girls, their smaller capes wrapped tight against the cold, follow closely. At an early age they are taught to be a good Simbari wife.

On the ground reality hits hard. Rain soaks the clay soil 180 days a year. The slick clay sticks to everything and everyone. One moment you are standing on a trail and the next –

BAM! — you are sitting on the trail, covered in clay. Staying upright is a challenge for the missionaries living and working among the Simbaris.

We were there to film the exciting process going on within the Simbari tribe. We had heard great things about this small band of believers. The mature church is growing and has sprung a leak! Yes, the Gospel message is spreading to other villages. What was one is now many.God is using Simbari church leaders like Raymond to spread His message. With his education he could travel to the nearby town and get a better paying job, but Raymond has chosen to stay in his village to help missionaries translate the Scripture and see the church grow.

After one lengthy Sunday service, Raymond climbed three hours to the top of the clay-covered mountain behind his village to find a cell phone signal. At an appointed time he called fellow believers who live in town and over the phone taught that Sunday’s lesson from Ephesians.

God is building his church and it is going to take more than just the western missionaries to get the job done. It’s going to take trained tribal believers who have the courage to leave the ordinary and step up to lead fellow believers into deeper maturity.

That is what God is doing all over the world through you as you support and pray for Katy and I and the work of NTM.

Thank You.  Macon and Katy Hare

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Second Stories – Orlando’s Summit Church Moves North

Posted by Macon and Katy Hare in Ministry on Feb 25th, 2012 | Comments Off
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COTTON CANDY Gods

Posted by Macon and Katy Hare in Ministry on Feb 20th, 2012 | Comments Off

If we could order a God at Starbucks we’d say, “I’d like mine to taste sweet and have no substance. And make it a small.”

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Every Thing That Could Go Wrong…. | New Tribes Mission

Posted by Macon and Katy Hare in Ministry, News Article on Feb 9th, 2012 | Comments Off

When Jack Russell recently returned to a Simba village to translate more of God’s Word, he ran into more than the usual problems.

In fact, it took a couple of weeks before he was even able to let his friends and family know what was going on. “It took me awhile to get the radio email going,” he wrote. “Mice had gotten in and chewed through the wires. Also lightning had struck my antenna and it had fallen.”

A bus dropped Jack off in the village at 2 a.m. “I had to carry my stuff from the road, down across the creek, and then out across a field, then up the hill to my house. It was about 78 degrees and very muggy,” he wrote. Then it started raining, but at least that cooled things off.

He really wanted a shower after the long trip to the village and struggle to his house, but the water was off.

“So I got a machete and started cutting a path up to the water tank. It’s the middle of summer down here so the jungle had grown up a lot. Half an hour later I made it to the tank and got the water valve to the house open. But when I ran back down to the house I found I had a geyser.”

Jack settled for rinsing in the rain.

He decided that before he went to bed he should get the gas refrigerator going in order to keep the food he had brought in fresh.

“I got the bottle gas hooked up and it lit fine, but I thought I heard something and was crawling around the back for a closer look when – poof! The whole back suddenly burst into flames and there went all the hair from one arm. I rushed out and turned the gas off and decided I’d tackle that one in the morning.”

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