‘When the Galilean boy brought his bread to the Lord, what did the Lord do with it? He broke it. God always breaks what is offered to Him. He breaks what He takes, but after breaking it He blesses and uses it to meet the needs of others. After you give yourself to the Lord, He begins to break what was offered to him. Everything seems to go wrong.’
When we take a step of faith with the Lord it is clear from scripture and from experience that we can expect spiritual battles to take place. From the words of Watchman Nee in his book ‘The Normal Christian Life’ we see that he believed that God also allows difficulty and pain so He can ‘bless and use us to meet the needs of others’.
Over the past months we have been getting to grips with our role as Short Term Mission Coordinators for New Tribes Mission. It has been a busy time organising teams, working with new field contacts and setting up different ministries for our teams to be involved in. While we have known God’s help in so many ways, there have been struggles and frustrations too and at times we have felt, with Nee that ‘Everything seemed to go wrong’. We trust that God uses these times for His glory and in turn to bring blessing to others whose lives He touches.
As we write we are encouraged that among other things, plans are well under way for the Summit teams going this summer to The Philippines and Mozambique. The Philippines team will go to Palawan Island to carry out a work project at the mission guest facilities. The team to Mozambique is going to help with the missionary field conference. Primarily they will run a Bible club for the missionaries’ children while the conference is taking place but they will also help lead singing and music in the conference itself. This is an exciting new way for us to minister to missionaries while allowing the team to experience and be challenged toward missions.
There has been a lot of interest in these trips and the teams are almost finalised. We have spent time with the team leaders and will hold an orientation weekend in early May to prepare the teams for their missions experience in the summer.
Since we started working with New Tribes Mission on a full time basis we have not had any period of ‘deputation’ where we could share about our work and seek to raise prayer and financial support. It is sometimes easier just to get on with the job but we realise if we do not actively try to involve others in our ministry we will not be able to continue for very long. With that in mind we are looking for opportunities to present our ministry to individuals or churches who may be interested. Can we ask you to pray with us about this and if you can help organise such meetings please contact us. No meeting is too far or too small if God is opening doors to share about our work or the work of the mission in general.
On 22 Jan David, Alicia and Sarah left for Peru. They were pleased that the trip went well and especially how Sarah coped with all the travel. They are living in Arequipa where they will stay until they finish language study. Sarah has started nursery school. She enjoys nursery and the little friends she has there and is particularly proud of her nursery uniform.
Allan has been busy with singing engagements since the launch of his cd. He and Judith have been asked to work with ‘Goodseed’ in Canada, writing songs and music for their children’s Bible teaching resources. They hope to start their new ministry in the autumn.
When we take a step of faith with the Lord it is clear from scripture and from experience that we can expect spiritual battles to take place. From the words of Watchman Nee in his book ‘The Normal Christian Life’ we see that he believed that God also allows difficulty and pain so He can ‘bless and use us to meet the needs of others’.
Over the past months we have been getting to grips with our role as Short Term Mission Coordinators for New Tribes Mission. It has been a busy time organising teams, working with new field contacts and setting up different ministries for our teams to be involved in. While we have known God’s help in so many ways, there have been struggles and frustrations too and at times we have felt, with Nee that ‘Everything seemed to go wrong’. We trust that God uses these times for His glory and in turn to bring blessing to others whose lives He touches.
As we write we are encouraged that among other things, plans are well under way for the Summit teams going this summer to The Philippines and Mozambique. The Philippines team will go to Palawan Island to carry out a work project at the mission guest facilities. The team to Mozambique is going to help with the missionary field conference. Primarily they will run a Bible club for the missionaries’ children while the conference is taking place but they will also help lead singing and music in the conference itself. This is an exciting new way for us to minister to missionaries while allowing the team to experience and be challenged toward missions.
There has been a lot of interest in these trips and the teams are almost finalised. We have spent time with the team leaders and will hold an orientation weekend in early May to prepare the teams for their missions experience in the summer.
Since we started working with New Tribes Mission on a full time basis we have not had any period of ‘deputation’ where we could share about our work and seek to raise prayer and financial support. It is sometimes easier just to get on with the job but we realise if we do not actively try to involve others in our ministry we will not be able to continue for very long. With that in mind we are looking for opportunities to present our ministry to individuals or churches who may be interested. Can we ask you to pray with us about this and if you can help organise such meetings please contact us. No meeting is too far or too small if God is opening doors to share about our work or the work of the mission in general.
On 22 Jan David, Alicia and Sarah left for Peru. They were pleased that the trip went well and especially how Sarah coped with all the travel. They are living in Arequipa where they will stay until they finish language study. Sarah has started nursery school. She enjoys nursery and the little friends she has there and is particularly proud of her nursery uniform.
Allan has been busy with singing engagements since the launch of his cd. He and Judith have been asked to work with ‘Goodseed’ in Canada, writing songs and music for their children’s Bible teaching resources. They hope to start their new ministry in the autumn.
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Praising the Lord for you and your ministry. Praying that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.
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