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Headed to PNG!!!

A dream is being realized as we are making our way to Bree’s childhood home of Papua New Guinea.  We cannot believe the opportunity that God has given us as we partner with Hume Lake International Ministries (www.humelake.org) and New Tribes Mission (www.ntm.org) to run Hume Lake style camp for Missionary Kids living in PNG.  We will be gone from October 7th – 29th.

Keep up with our trip on Facebook and Instagram! (we’ll post as much as we can)

TRIP DETAILS:

  • Our team will be running spiritual emphases week for High School Missionary kids at a New Tribes conference center in the Highlands of PNG.  We will be using the same theme/curriculum used by Hume Lake this last summer – The Phantastical Journey of the Wandering Lites.
  • Bree and I have also been given the opportunity to head over to the separate Jr. High Camp on one of the days as the camp speakers.  We will be tag-team teaching on “OWNING your faith.”
  • After the camps are done, our team will get to spend a few days at Numonohi Christian Academy. This is where Bree went to school – elementary through High School!  We will be able to hang with the students and continue to build relationships with them.
  • New Tribes is planning to fly our team into a tribal work for a few days to see and experience the work of church-planting first hand.
  • Lastly, Bree and I will be spending an extra week in PNG with Bree’s parents whom are New Tribes Missionaries.  They live in the capital and serve as the government representatives for New Tribes.

PLEASE PRAY FOR:

  • Travel mercies.
  • Successful and impactful ministry to the Missionary Kids.
  • Great team dynamics.
  • Health for our team throughout the trip.
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Papua New Guinea Update!

We are VERY excited to announce that God has provided for Bree and I to go to Papua New Guinea (PNG) for three weeks this October!  We will be apart of a Hume Lake Christian Camp team that will be bringing Hume Lake style camp to the Missionary Kids there.  It’s called SEW (Spiritual Emphases Weekend) and the purpose is to give Missionary Kids the opportunity to have camp much like american kids have here in the states.  Bree and I will primarily be focused on being Lead counselors however, we will be sharing many other hats as well.  Along with the camp, we also get a chance to go into a tribe and experience Tribal Missions in person.  Lastly, we will spend time with Bree’s parents in Port Moresby, PNG’s capitol, to be a fly-on-the-wall in their ministry as New Tribes government representatives.

So thankful that God has made this trip a reality for us.  It will be a very valuable experience in our future career and an amazing opportunity to finally see Bree’s childhood home.

 

 

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Looking for Partnerships

As we look excitedly to what God is doing, we cannot help but thank God for what He has already done. We can see how He has used His body of Christ to keep us moving forward through prayer, encouragement, and financial support.  To accomplish His task it takes a unified joint effort from a team.  We are incredibly thankful to those has already partnered with us and look forward to seeing the team grow.

Here are our current prayer and financial needs:

  • Need to raise $10,000 for our last phase of training with New Tribes Mission.
    (current status 45% raised)

  • Need to raise our monthly support level to $3000 per month. (current status 20% raised)

  • Need to raise $7000 to head to Papua New Guinea in October to help run summer camp for MKs there stationed there.
    (current status 0% raised)

The fact is, we need to raise a lot of funds and are looking to the Lord to do so through His body of Christ.  If you, or someone you know, are interested in more information about partnering with the team or would like to financially supporting us, please connect and let us know.  We would love to meet with you and share the vision.

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What it’s all about?…

What we desire to make clear is our motivation in this ministry.  As we study scripture we see that God has a plan and vision for the world.  This plan is the greatest calling to our lives.  His plan is to reach every tribe, tongue, and nation with the Gospel and to make disciples.  That is what we desire to be about.  As we look to what God is doing, we believe He has given us an awareness into the fact that caring and supporting missionary families is vital and is part of our responsibilities as the body of Christ.

Support roles in the missions community are incredibly important.  To keep a missionary family in a tribe, with the resources and time it takes to study and understand a language/culture enough to translate the bible, takes many hands.  It typical takes 6 support missionaries to keep one missionary in the tribe.  Support roles include pilots, teachers, doctors, accountants, supply buyers, trainers, IT techs, MK caregivers, and SO much more.  I recently heard a story from a missionary pilot who explained how he fit into the puzzle.  He flew supplies into a tribal village where there was a missionary team working on the bible translation.
As the pilot stopped into the hut “office” of one of the translators, the translator asked the pilot what he was up to today. “oh… just flying around making the delivery rounds” he said. 
“Nope!” said the translator.  “You are translating Romans 3:3 today!”  How true!  By doing what God has called him to do, that missionary pilot was part of the team that was bringing the gospel to a remote tribe.  Praise God!  That is what we want to be a part of and want to get others on board with.

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Ministry Moment: Summer ’12

We have been incredibly encouraged as we watched God faithfully guide us this last year.  The journey that He has placed us on has been very unconventional and has kept us out of our comfort zones.  As we think back on the last three months, we are thankful that we had the opportunity to be a part of three different Missionary Kid (MK) retreat events; a college MK Winter Retreat in Indiana in which we brought 25 MKs from NTBI, a college MK Summer Retreat in Pennsylvania for New Tribes own MKs, and a MK Transition Seminar with Barnabas International at Biola University.

    

We had a blast at all three and are grateful for the opportunity.  We were also very encouraged by great meetings and conversations with New Tribes leadership as to were we can fit into the mission after we finish training.  The current vision and plans for this developing ministry excite us.  There are many great ideas brewing and we cannot wait to see what God has in store.

Here are a few highlights:

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On the Road Again:

What an amazing season God has granted us.  Since our last newsletter we have competed our requirements at New Tribes Bible Institute and graduated!  Our NTBI experience was capped off with an amazing time of fellowship with Bree’s parents along  with Pete’s mother and brothers who came to Milwaukee to celebrate with us. After grad, we began a two month long season of travel as we made our way back home in northern California.  It took us coast to coast, 5500 miles in the car, and 16 different beds. Our stops included Chicago, Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Niagara Falls, Missouri, Denver, Salt Lake City, Hume Lake, San Diego, the High Desert, Los Angeles, and northern California.

                    

We were able to spend time with many close friends and family across the country and as well as an incredible time with Bree’s entire family in San Diego who haven’t been together in 2 year.  Bree’s parents, who serve as missionaries in Papua New Guinea, are currently on a short furlough and Bree’s older brother and his wife and kids joined us as well. Finally we made our way back up to Northern California where we plan to work and share the vision of the ministry.  God willing, in December we will be funded and head to Missouri to begin our final training program at the New Tribes Missionary Training center. This training will take us a year to complete.