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We would like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas. We will be spending Christmas day with our new upcoming family. Janelle and I, and Kyla, Chad and Brittany (our future daughter-in-law) will be joining her parent and grandparents who live here in Central Florida. It will be fun to get together with our new expanded family. I trust you all will have a blessed Christmas with your family.

We are in the New House

We are so thankful to all the guys that helped us move. We are thankful to God for providing a nice place for us to live.  The first project was to paint the kitchen prior to moving in. There is still much to unpack and do on the house. Shelves were made by the fire place in Kyla’s room, new mechanisms’ for the toilet, installed a new used stove and a dryer, etc… It is slowly coming together and we hope to be done with it enough to have Chad and his fiancé here for Christmas.

Harold, one of my co-workers, came by last Saturday and power washed the deck out back and the house. That was a huge blessing. The house has been sitting empty and the deck was black and grimy after being neglected for over 2 years. It brightened up the house too.

It has been a pleasure to work with all the New Tribes Bible Institute graduates that are headed to Camdenton, Mo to the Missionary Training. The current count for the January class is 35. This number of students is higher than resent January classes. God is raising up laborers in spite of troubled economic times. There is much to be done around the world. God is able.

Thanks for praying.

Phil and Janelle Sutton

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NTM has a training program called Pre Field Orientation (PFO) that prepares missionaries for service with New Tribes Mission. This past week I had the privilege along with the rest of our Connection Center team to help train 4 associates and 1 career missionary with NTM. It is a time where missionaries learn various aspects of what to expect when serving here at Sanford and abroad. Many of the staff here at the NTM home office does each class session. Some of the departments represented are the; leadership, communications, child protection, medical and taxes, etc… The list goes on, but you get the idea. Janelle and I had many opportunities to help those that were heading for Papua New Guinea.

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We are so thankful that we had an opportunity to get to Minnesota and see my mom. She is doing well and is on more of an upswing. We visited her each day while we were in Blackduck. She even fixed us a meal on one of the nights. She hasn’t cooked a real meal for over 2 years. So we all pitched in together and had a chicken dinner. That was special!

On our trip back to Florida we also got a chance to visit the training center in Missouri. It was nice to see the fall colors. We were in meetings for most of the week. Janelle and I learned a lot about the classes our missionary candidates take before going overseas. They are in a course that takes a year and a half and has modules on language learning, relationship skills, child protection, phonetics, team building, cross-cultural training, family, missionary kid issues, etc… We met with the leaders to help communicate what the Connection Center (the department I am a part of) in Sanford does in screening applicants who will eventually be their students. It was a great time to learn and meet new people that are a part of the training team.

There is not a lot of new news on the purchasing of our house. We keep getting new requirements that need to be met before we can get the house. The process has gone through 4 different extensions or amendments to our original contract. Pray that next week we will be able to get the repairs done on the house that the FHA has required to be made prior to the final sale. If the house passes the inspections required by the FHA next week we could close the deal soon. I just keep saying, “It ain’t over until it’s over”. We are looking forward to finally moving into a place we can call our own.

Thanks for praying.

Phil and Janelle Sutton

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We are so excited to announce that our youngest will be getting married! Chad is now engaged to Brittany Engaldo. They plan to be married on June 23, 2012. Chad is in his second year at New Tribes Bible Institute in Waukesha Wisconsin. Brittney has graduated from NTBI and is working in the area until they come to Florida for the wedding. Brittany grew up just north of Tampa Bay Florida. Let us know if you would like to attend their wedding and we will pass that information on to them.

We had a good time with Brittany’s parents a few weeks ago. Brittany’s mom Barbara is the daughter of Paul and Pam Rasmussen who are one of our co-workers here at the USA Head Office. Barbara is a missionary kid from Colombia, South America. Andy is a home improvements specialist. Courtney is still in high school and likes to be the life of the party.

We are looking at a house on Sanford Ave about 2 miles from the USA Home Office. Pray for us as we did get an offer on our house in Georgia. We are working through the loan process this week for the house here in Sanford.

Yours in reaching the unreached around the world,

Phil and Janelle Sutton

2011 March Update from Phil and Janelle

God Uses His People in Papua New Guinea

God has a way of using his people that goes beyond what we expect. There are exciting things happening with God using the people from the Chronological Bible teaching that started in Port Moresby.

John our co-worker picked up the last package of Chronological teaching material and delivered it to the NTM center in Port Moresby. It was an exciting day as it marked the beginning of getting teaching materials into the hands of the Bible teachers.

Below are some excerpts from e-mails sent to me.

“Just an update.

We (Togaro, Alice, and myself) met with Brother Dave Yunker on Saturday for the handover of the chron material.

Alice was given her set as she already has 50 students to teach in a religious instruction class at a public school.

As soon as a date is fixed, Togaro and I will head down to Kwikila to handover a set of teaching materials to Pastor Sepa.

About 20 student workbooks were given out to our members of the English Congregation on Sunday. After I explained and challenged them, they agreed for me to restart from the beginning now that they have the workbooks.

We decided to have two classes. The first class is the Phase 1, Firm Foundation: Creation to Christ. That’s from 8am to 9am.This is mainly for the unbelievers but believers are encouraged to sit in as a review or to learn the story so they can be able to teach it themselves or to others.

The second class is on phase 2. This is only for believers. That’s from 9am to 9:45am. For the first time the believers are enjoying their teaching.

I will be doing a teacher training with Brother Charles and George so they one can both teach the materials Phase 1 & 2. This will release me to reach out to others.

Thank you very much. Thank the Cokato Thrift Shop once again for us.( The Cokato Thrift Shop made a donation to purchase and send the materials to Papua New Guinea.)

Thank you for your continued prayers for us as we now move to assist Pastor Sepa and others in the “how to” teaching chron materials.

God Bless!

Kokou Niara (Mr.)”

Continue to pray for the teaching that continues to reach the people of Papua New Guinea.

Phil and Janelle Sutton

Personal Financial Note: Though we are joining the NTM USA Headquarters staff it is not a paid position. We continue to live by faith from the donations we receive from partners who continue to financially support us.

Phil & Janelle at 17 Mile Park

Hello Everyone,

We want to say that our time in Papua New Guinea has been filled with unforgettable experiences. We will miss the people and ministry that we have had here for the past 12 years. It is difficult to say goodbye.

We are looking forward to what ministry the Lord has for us in the States. We will be in contact with the NTM USA staff to help us determine where we might fit into ministry stateside. Pray for the decisions we will have to make in this process.

Thanks for praying for us. We know that your prayers make a difference in our ministry both here in Papua New Guinea and while in the USA.

Bible Study with Togaro & Kokou

Praises

• We have completed our chronological Bible study on Thursday nights. It has been a lot of fun to see the understanding of the Word of God being passed on. Kokou and Togaro have started a study with a group of people on Tuesday nights.
• We shipped out our crates last week. We ended up shipping 2 crates instead of just one. The house is pretty empty.
• The procedure manual for the office is completed. I trust this will give enough information for our co-workers to carry on the work here in the Port Moresby office.
• We have been working the past couple of weeks on our “home assignment” presentation. We have completed this video and it will be ready to share with you as we travel.
• All of the in and out of country visas have been completed and processed. Now it’s just new applications that are being worked on.

Prayer Requests

• Pray for us as we travel.
• Pray for what our future ministry will be when we return to the USA.
  

  Brisbane

• Travel Plans
  • We will celebrate Janelle’s birthday twice, once in Brisbane on the 30 th of September and once in Las Vegas on the 30th of September. Does that mean she will be one extra year older?
  • Stay at my brother’s in Pahrump, Nevada until October 7.
  • Spend time with Chad and others in Waukesha, WI from October 7-11
  • Spend time with Chris and March in Solon, Iowa October 11
  • Spend time with Monte and Kim and others in Littleton, Colorado October 13-23
  • Spend time with Bill and Rita and others in Superior, Nebraska October 23-24
  • Spend time with Matt and Erika in Ketchi, Kansas October 25
  • Spend time with Don and Char and others in Minnesota Oct 26-Christmas
  • Brock & Heidi’s for Christmas in Flintstone, Georgia

Thanks for praying for us! We appreciate you.

Phil and Janelle Sutton