Mike and Beth Sutton Helping Spread the Gospel in Papua New Guinea Hair cuts
A long time ago, (for those who are familiar with the NTM training) in what is called Jungle Camp, one of the Staff gave many of the men instructions on how to cut hair. I am not sure if I appreciated this or not. When we were living in the jungles I was the one who reluctantly cut my wife’s and children’s hair. Even occasionally some of our co-workers too. Not until tonight did I really appreciate this, as I was able to give my 2 year old grandson a hair cut, along with trimming two of my granddaughter’s hair. One never knows when the things we learn in life will bring us joy or a chore. But God is good, and gives us precious moments of Joy to go along with the chores. Moments that keep us going when we are on the opposite side of the world from our grandchildren and life seems to be a “chore”.
Tags: Family, overseas life, training
FAMILY TIME
Having all or even some of our kids around is always a blessing. This past weekend our girls and their families were here in our home town for the weekend to give their youngest sister a Bridal shower . On Saturday night before heading to bed, I (Beth) raised the question ” what was the one thing that can cause them to worry right now?”. It turned out to be such a sweet time as we encouraged each other with the fears each were facing. We then joined hands and prayed for each other; giving our worries back to the Lord. I know the Lord heard heard each one of those prayers and we are excited to see how the Lord will work in each situation.
Preaching
It was a great weekend, two of our daughters and their husbands and two of our grandchildren were in town. The same weekend I was schedule to preach at our home church. Another sort of surprise was that the Service became a sort of Mission service with the commissioning of some folks heading to Alaska. It is so encouraging to see folks who want to serve the Lord. They say the sermon went extremely well and many seemed excited and encourage by the message. A few also commented on how that I have changed over the years and drawn closer to the Lord. I attribute the sermon and the change to all those who prayed specifically for this weekend and for our ministry over the years. We serve an awesome God don’t we?
Our March Madness
It is hard to believe February is over, in what has been a very mild winter, an answer to our prayers. March is starting off with a bang. Dental work, medical checkups, Mike preaching at our Home Church on March 4th.. Then
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Tags: Family news, ministry, Prayer
Tickets are ordered
It was a busy month in February. We purchased our tickets for our return to PNG, only to have one leg of our trip changed the week after we purchased our tickets. Fortunately we had cancellation insurance and the Airline refunded our ticket price within two weeks. Still
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Tags: furlough end, news
Something New
Thank you for being patient. We are finally getting around to posting some new information on our blog. Please bear with us as we learn.
We are in Ontario, Canada on Home Assignment at present and plan to be back in Papua New Guinea by July 30th of 2012.
Thanks again and more to come.
Ever since our arrival here in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea, we have felt like we are at home. This center is much like where we served in South America for 6 years, and our co-workers here are all friendly.
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