NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

Sept./Oct., 2010

Dear Friends,

We send you warm greetings from Florida, once again.  We are enjoying the weather here for the time being.  Our highs are in the mid eighties and our lows in the low sixties, and the humidity has dropped way down.  It’s great!  It is supposed to stay nice like this through Friday, so we shall see which way it goes after that.

 We went to our mission’s beach retreat last weekend.  It was a good time for all who attended, with a pizza night and an ice cream social the next.  However, it ended with sadness. (more…)

Late February News from the Burns:

Greetings from Florida.  It has been so cold this year with temperatures below normal.  We are still having lows in the thirties.  Our snowbirds have to remember that, yes, this is cold for Florida, but it is still a lot warmer than where they come from.

It has been great having our volunteers here again this winter.  The time has gone quickly and in a month all will be headed north, usually around the first of April.  I was pleased that Doc Wally was able to be here again.  He is 88 years old, but was stronger this year than last.  I had a lot of wood ready for him and he has already turned most of it into beautiful cabinets.  The kitchen we are working on right now is that of our main tax man and his wife.  Brain and his crew are very busy this time of year filling out 1040 forms and filing them for many of our missionaries, both here and abroad.  You can imagine what a blessing this service is to our tribal missionaries who already have much to trust the Lord for without having the IRS being another worry.

Thank you for all of your prayers while Phil was sick.  He spent five days in the hospital, and at last the chills stopped. He had a serious infection that went to the blood.  He just completed two weeks of antibiotic and is again at work, full time.  God is good! (more…)