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Meeting Gracia

September 13, 2011

If you had told me many years ago when I was watching the news reports of the captured missionaries in the Philippines that one day one of them would be rescued and I would eventually meet them in person, I would have thought you were crazy. Remembering back to the reports of the tragic capturing […]

Growing Anticipation

September 12, 2011

If we could have known the future we would not have been surprised by the fact that Iris’ paperwork took longer than we originally anticipated. As things stand right now, we will be back in the United States for another four weeks. For certain, the next four weeks will be packed with experiences and opportunities […]

You call your cousin your father?

September 7, 2011

How do you refer to your father’s sister’s son? Most of us would call him our cousin. But, surprisingly enough, people groups like the Crow (a Native American group) would call that man their father. You see, they are matrilineal, so they trace their ancestry only through their mother’s side of the family. They then […]

Vacaville Venture

September 4, 2011

My heart is smiling as I sit down to write this blog. It is amazing how being in the body of Christ can knit you together with people you have never even met; how you can sit down and speak face to face with a person for the first time and truly connect, be blessed […]

NTM’s MTC CP1 Class!

September 2, 2011

So, you understood that title, right? 🙂 Indeed, there are many acronyms used here at the Missionary Training Center (MTC), and many jokes about said acronyms. Here’s an example of how we could communicate poorly with you: “Hello friends in the PNW! After graduating from the BI in MI, we are at NTM’s MTC in […]

Translation Checked!

August 28, 2011

The long awaited final check on Romans 9-16 and Ephesians is complete. We are pleased at how it went. The hearers were tracking pretty well even when hearing fairly large sections. There were a few spots they struggled more to understand. We have some ideas as to how we can improve those sections to better […]

Extreme Home Makeover: Island Edition

August 22, 2011

We have a house. It’s sitting in the middle of a village on a tiny island in the south pacific. From this house we will live and minister to the upwards of 20,000 Tigak people of Papua New Guinea with the hope of helping them discover who Christ is and what He has done for […]

Orientation

August 19, 2011

Our classroom at MTC On Wednesday morning at 8am, we were all warmly welcomed to the MTC for our first day. Our class is made up of 46 or so students – families, couples, and singles. There are more than a dozen of us from NTBI in Michigan, a handful from NTBI in Wisconsin, and […]

Arrived at MTC

August 13, 2011

Just a quick blog to mention that we arrived at MTC this morning! Attached is a short video which shows our apartment, and the view from it. We’re so blessed and so thankful to be here. Stay tuned for more updates as things get rolling here! ~The Martinez Family http://youtu.be/oNNeqRotKuU

Off to MTC! Journey, Days 3 & 4

August 12, 2011

Beautiful SW Wyoming We are SOOO thankful to have had an uneventful trip from Seattle, all the way to Missouri! We are in Harrisonville, MO, which is about 2 hours from MTC, and are enjoying one last night of quiet (is that accurate with toddlers?) family time before we dive in tomorrow. We left Utah […]