NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

This picture makes me happy.  I’ve actually set it as the wallpaper on our computer.  Most pictures I see that are taken of various tribes, the people aren’t smiling.  If you look here, they all have a joy in their faces.  This group is the Tarahumara church.

We’ve been praying for this tribal work before we even moved to Mexico.  The summer before our move to Mexico we took a week and visited the country and saw where we would be living.  While there, we stayed at the guest house in Chihuahua along with Tim and Janet Roberts (top left).  Tim and Janet talked often of their work with the Tarahumara Indians.  Since our time working at the guest house here in El Paso we’ve gotten to know Tim and Janet’s partners, Ted and Sharon Wingo.  The following is an excerpt from Ted and Sharon’s most recent update:

“The best news first…. On April 2, Casimiro, his wife Maria Luisa and their daughter Marcela trusted Jesus as Savior! What better time to begin a new life in Christ than at Easter?! And what better news could a missionary hear?! We marvel, along with the angels in Heaven, at the wonder of our salvation!

New Believers

And then Easter Sunday…. Twenty-eight were at the believers’ meeting. The worship time included showing part of the “Jesus” film in Tarahumara so the believers could more readily visualize what Jesus suffered for us…and then the JOY at His resurrection. We also shared a fellowship meal together.”

As our partners in ministry you have reached far into the mountains of Mexico to this group of Tarahumara believers.  Glory to God!

I’m a bit behind in the anniversary, but it’s happened, none the less.  At the beginning of November a new couple at church asked us how long we had been living here, “One year, exactly.”  It seems so odd to be here a year, in a place that I never would have pictured us a year and three months ago.  God must be smiling at His children and “our” plan for life.  It’s taken me about a year, but my head and my heart are settled and happy where He has us.  We have been able to meet and get to personally know every missionary working with NTM in the field of Mexico.  We’ve even met missionaries who are not with New Tribes Mission, even a work team or two.  We’ve prayed so many folks to and from tribal locations and to and from the guest house.  When we are glad to see someone at the guest house, it’s largely because we’ve been praying for their arrival.  For the first time in our marriage we’ll be celebrating Christmas in the same place two years in a row!  So strange, I feel as if we should travel…maybe not.

So many of you have prayed for us, supported financially, or through packages, or in words.  We’ve been with New Tribes Mission for four and a half years and here in this guest house ministry for one.  We could NOT be here where He has us if it were not for you.  We truly believe we are serving Him WITH you.

Before - well the starting stages of distruction.

It all started with a dripping faucet.  I reported to Torre that room #110 had a dripping faucet, one that could not be tightened.  No problem!  Right?  WRONG!  After two hours of installing the new faucet Torre was back home informing me that we needed to go to the store to pick out a new vanity and sink.  What?!?!  So there we are, the kids running up and down the plumbing aisle, Torre speaking Chinese to me about the process (not really, but I was so not following), and me trying to figure out what is the best “look” for the bathroom and the best price and get home so we can eat dinner.  We had less than 24 hours to do all this, as the room was to be occupied the next day.  I’d just like to give God credit for providing a slightly damaged, already marked down vanity so we could get the sink top we really wanted, and an amazingly talented Torre to install it!  Ta-da!  All in a day’s work.  Literally.

Done.

After - removed the never used medicine cabinet and flipped the mirror.