Tim and Andrea Ullum one small thread in God's tapestry of time Ullums Update
Hello from Jacksonville Florida! We have about a month and a week left here before we start our journey back to our home on the other side of the world!
As we all say, “time flies” and our 6 month home assignment has gone fast. It’s been filled with blessed family and friend get-togethers, many firsts for the girls, and a refreshing time at our home church with regular fellowship times and Bible studies.
camping at the beach
Easter weekend we enjoyed a couple days of camping with some friends. It was a fun time for the girls to remember what it is like to explore in the woods, play with bugs and get dirty. Something they haven’t done much since coming to the States. We enjoyed hanging out with friends and their 2 kids who are also missionaries. We had alot in common to talk about! We’ve enjoyed different opportunities to share with new friends, fellowship classes, and supporters. In May we had around 20 meals/connecting times to share and we count it a privilege to be a part of so many lives and be blessed by so many!!!
happy birthday Andrea
Our thoughts are turning toward our return to the village and the planning and prep involved in getting set up there again. We look forward to reconnecting with friends and coworkers again. We have continued to pray about the situations there and have had many people on our hearts as we have been here in the States. Our girls continue to mention how much they miss friends from our home there and I think they will be ready to head back when the time comes.
For those of you who are in Jacksonville we would like to invite you to a short prayer send-off and final update before we head back. Sunday May 20th we’ll be meeting during 3rd hour at CFC in Room B9. We would love to have any who are interested to come and be a part! There is no meal planned, just a time of sharing and prayer and we anticipate our time of return to the Asia Pacific area. We hope to see many of you there!
Tim & I have just started a class called Spiritual Disciplines and this weeks’ was about being a disciple or “dust follower”. Just as the Jewish children would follow in the footsteps of their teachers, watching their every move, reaction, and attitude and learning from their wisdom, we too as believers have the opportunity to be learners who follow behind our Teacher Jesus and walk in His dust, so to speak, in order to learn and grow from Him. And we certainly have so much to learn as we continue this journey, desiring to lead others in becoming disciples of our Great Teacher, Jesus.
Some ways you could pray as we near this final month would be: 1. The packing and planning that has to happen- it can be a particularly stressful time. 2. For the paperwork and final approvals in order for the airstrip in the village to be completed. 3. For healing and recovery for Andrea from a recent miscarriage.
May God encourage and refresh you this spring as you see signs of life and newness in the creation all around you. We are enjoying all the flowering magnolia trees in our neighborhood and the smells of the flowers wafting through the air!
Dust Followers,
Tim & Andrea Ullum
2012 and beyond
It’s hard to believe that 1/3 of our home assignment has come and gone. We are trying to submerge ourselves into relationships here and soak up as much christian fellowship as we can. We are really thankful for the community of believers here in Jacksonville that have loved us and welcomed us with open arms.
This past weekend we presented the Kendawangan outreach to easily 300 people. Our goal is to bring together prayer partners for the next phase of ministry. We have mentioned several times on the Ullums Update that we try and send out a brief list of prayer needs each week. We call this email Breaking Strongholds. That reflects our confidence that through prayer there is “divine power to destroy strongholds”. (2 Cor 10:4) If you would like to be a part of that prayer list let us know by sending an email to tim_ullum@ntm.org.
We are planning to return to Asia-Pacific area in mid May of this year. At that point we will be getting back into preparing foundational scripture as well as lessons that will introduce the Kendawangan people to Jesus the Messiah. Our partners are right now chipping away at their goals of becoming fluent in the tribal language and culture. The open doors created through the learning process is critical the the entrance of the gospel.
We covet your prayers as well as your encouragement. If you are in the Jacksonville area or just passing through we would love to get together. Contact us at 904-329-6422
After His glory,
Tim & Andrea Ullum
Tags: New Tribes Mission, NTM
Literacy Efforts
Dear friends,
We are into count down mode as we look at the next three months of ministry here in the tribe. At the beginning of December 
we will head to the States to begin a 6 month home assignment/furlough time. We look forward to connecting with many of you and are still in the stage of making plans and getting tickets. We will plan to be in Jacksonville for the majority of our time after a Christmas month in Michigan with my family. If there are ways we can be a blessing to your family when we are in the States we would like to do that.
Right when we got back to the village after our time in town, we had ten days together with a fellow missionary who oversees the literacy efforts
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June Update
You never know what a day might bring. Do you believe that? Of course you do, you have all had those days when, you know the neighborhood kids are calling for you at 5 in the morning asking if you are awake yet or not, or you get asked to come and help someone who was attacked by jungle wasps and are going into allergic shock, or just before dark you have a 6 foot cobra crawl under your house.
May Update
Turn another page on your calendar! 2011 is already pushing us way beyond what, in the flesh we could imagine. Beyond our
abilities, beyond our wisdom, beyond even our own will/aspiration into the life of faith. Praise the Lord that hope remains. That it’s not the seen things that we put confidence in but by faith we put our confidence in the unseen hand of Creator God. His promises remain “yes” in Christ. “for we walk by faith, not by sight” 2 Cor 5:7
After finishing a language evaluation we have been moving forward with several important projects here in the village.
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