Merry Christmas from our family to yours! We are making preparations to celebrate Christmas with Megan’s parents here in Colorado. Chuck’s schedule as a medical provider has always required that he work a certain number of holidays; this year he will work Christmas Eve and be home with us on Christmas Day! We are thankful that the Lord has allowed him to care for those in critical need, but we are so blessed that he will be home with us this Christmas.
What’s happening now?
Chuck and I were official accepted as Associate Members to Ethnos360 on November 1st, 2024. We will be advancing the Gospel through our role as support missionaries to those missionaries that are church planting in Papua New Guinea. As support missionaries, Chuck will be serving as a nurse in the medical clinic at the Ethnos360 (New Tribes Missions) base just outside of Goroka, Papua New Guinea. Megan will be serving as a teacher in the missionary school also on the base. Hunter and JJ will be attending the missionary school and Emma, well, she will just go find some bananas I guess. Ha! Just kidding. We are still praying and waiting on the Lord to reveal the details of how daily life will function there. Emma will be cared for and loved on by mom and dad, brothers, and probably many others!
We are now entering the process of being officially announced as missionaries to our sending church and to watch God begin to raise financial and prayer supporters. Our support team is critical to our ministry; you really are our partners to advance the Gospel into Papua New Guinea! Please pray for us in this as it feels like a giant task, but nothing is too big or too hard for God! We trust Him to provide through His generous people. And why wouldn’t we trust Him? He has been completely faithful to us this far and has proven His providence throughout the Bible and beyond. “Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.” Deut. 7:9 Praise God for His faithfulness! And praise Him because everything belongs to Him. He is the Sovereign God. “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.” Psalm 24:1 Would you be willing to steward some of God’s money toward our needs? We would be honored for you to join our team and be a part of Jesus reaching out to the unreached peoples of Papua New Guinea.
Our goal is to be fully funded by July 2025 and arrive in Papua New Guinea in August 2025. We have committed to a minimum of 2 years of service (there is an option to extend our service). Our new passports have arrived and we are beginning our visa paperwork.
Prayer Requests
You’ve read this far and we are so blessed that you are interested in what God is doing in and through our family!
Please pray…
- For Chuck as he registers to take his state nursing exam
- For our kids as we move through this preparation for transition, that they would trust God’s ways
- For our ministry partnership development, to trust the Lord to guide His resources
- That we would glorify and praise our King in every circumstance
- For wisdom regarding what we will do with our US home
- For Chuck and I to find peace in Christ in the midst of many unknowns
- That we would allow God to shape and mold us to His image and boldly share His love with others
- That we would continue to faithfully serve in our home church and reach out to our neighbors
Ways to connect
Join our private facebook group! Just search “Serving Together – The Hodges’ Ministry”. You can also subscribe to our blog to receive regular updates to your inbox. If you’d like to join our prayer team please send an email to megan_hodges@ntm.org.