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.

July 29, 2012July 29, 2012

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:

July 29, 2012January 24, 2013

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.

January 26, 2012January 26, 2012

MK College Winter Retreat ’12

Bree and I had the opportunity to go with 28 other MKs from NTBI- Waukesha to an MK Winter Retreat in northern Indiana. It was quite the adventure as it started off with a BANG! We found ourselves in the middle of a mighty Midwest winter storm during our travels… it turned a 5 hour trip into a 12 hour trip!!! However, against the odds, we didn’t end up having to turn back and made it to the camp safe and sound at 3am!

The retreat focused on fellowship, fun, re-connection (with old friends from childhood), and rejuvenation. We had the chance to connect with 173 MKs from 18 colleges and representing 77 different countries! What a Blessing!

We played all kinds of games, gorged on GREAT food, celebrated what seemed like a never-ending collection of cultures, and were challenged by a great speaker named Toby Locke. However, if you were to ask most of us… what took the cake was the HUGE game of snow futbol in the foot-and-a-half feet of snow.

We loved getting to know so many great students from our school and hope to get to know them even better this year!