10 years ago, our eyes were open to what God was doing in the Bible and it had to do with missions.\u00a0 5 years ago, we put it all on the line and started training with New Tribes to be church planters.\u00a0 1 year ago, we started selling all of our \u201cstuff\u201d and saying goodbye to friends and family.\u00a0 6 months ago, we made the move with all 3 of our kids\u2026long plane ride, foreign land, and foreign language.\u00a0 All this time, we have been praying for the people that we will one day get to teach them God\u2019s Talk in THEIR language!<\/p>\n
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We\u2019re talking about a BIG DREAM, that takes BIG faith.\u00a0 Where is the Lord going to take us?\u00a0 Will our kids miss out on anything by not growing up in America?\u00a0 What will our house be like?\u00a0 What people group are we going to go to??<\/p>\n
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(History)<\/span><\/p>\n About 3 months ago, we got to hear about all of the people groups that were open to having missionaries come in and teach them God\u2019s Talk.\u00a0 We started praying about this tribe called Safeyoka.\u00a0 We talk to leadership and they were excited about it, but wanted us to \u201cconsider\u201d praying about a different one named Wantakia.<\/p>\n Wantakia is an existing work but has never heard the gospel in their language.\u00a0 In the 1960\u2019s, a missionary team of 3 moved out there and started learning the language.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t learn that language and for many reasons left the tribe.\u00a0 Another team of 3 in the 1990\u2019s moved back into this people group and again, didn\u2019t learn the language and for many reasons left.\u00a0 Here this tribe is 18 years later and still has never heard God\u2019s Talk.\u00a0 Our hearts started breaking for these people.<\/p>\n To add to the story, when the missionaries from the 90\u2019s moved back to town, they brought a husband and wife with them (Pangwa and Kamaru) to work on the center.\u00a0 A few years ago, they heard the teaching and both became believers.\u00a0 They have had such a burden for their people.\u00a0 The Highlands region holds a conference every year and they give tribal reports of what the Lord is doing in their tribes.\u00a0 One team showed a video of their tribe becoming believers and Kamaru saw the video.\u00a0 She went home and cried all night asking, \u201cLord, why cant this be my people in Wantakia?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (A couple months ago)<\/span><\/p>\n So here we are praying about this Wantakia tribe, and we decide the next thing we need to do is talk to this Pangwa guy about his people (he\u2019s still working on the center.)\u00a0 Lo and behold, the VERY NEXT DAY, guess who comes into M adang?\u00a0 Pangwa!\u00a0 We invited him over and talked to him all night about Wantakia.\u00a0 He told us how his wife has not stopped praying!\u00a0 We had to let him know that we were just getting information, as we didn\u2019t want to get his hopes up.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Couple weeks ago)<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re still praying about Wantakia, but we are faced with other tribes that need the Gospel.\u00a0 Really, everybody needs the Gospel, but the truth is that there are only so many people coming to PNG and we are only one team that can go to one place!\u00a0 We still feel a strong pull to survey Wantakia.\u00a0 But we don\u2019t want to do it without our coworkers who just got here to learn the national language (Crabtrees).\u00a0 To make a long story short, Jack told us that he really felt like we should go ahead and get the ball rolling with the first survey into Wantakia.\u00a0 This is a huge sacrifice for him, but it\u2019s what he feels like the lord is leading.\u00a0 We are so thankful for awesome teammates.<\/p>\n Watch this video!!!\u00a0 (BJ and Jeremy inviting Pangwa to do the survey!)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n