That’s right, we have finally graduated from the Missionary Training Center in Roach, MO and are officially New Tribes’ Missionaries. The past year of training we had was amazing and invaluable. We learned about everything from Animism (the belief that spiritual beings indwell inanimate objects), to Family on the Field; Teaching Skills to Teamwork. We wouldn’t trade the training we received there for anything.
Now that we are finished there, what is our next move? We are currently in California spending time with family and friends before we move to McNeal, Arizona. In the month of July we will be travelling up into Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana to visit more family and friends and to share about what God is doing around the world and how He is using us to speed the work of the Gospel being taken into unreached tribes. Our goal this summer is to reach 100% support by the time we move in August so that we can head straight to the Philippines after our time in Arizona. The need for pilots there is great and quite urgent. This is a huge task but we have no doubt that if this is what the Lord wishes as well, He can make it happen.
Around the 11th of August, we will be moving to Arizona to begin flight training and maintaining airplanes for use on the field. The airstrips that Brian will be flying into in the Philippines are very challenging so this time in Arizona is a much needed time of preparation. We are so excited about this move as it is the beginning of what we have been training so long to do.