Our church challenged its members to read through the New Testament in 11 weeks over this summer. We are reading it together as a couple and sometimes with our kids and are being blessed and refreshed by the word of God.
▲ Froggy and Mr. Elephant can’t speak German, and Lukas is learning
that he should speak only English to his Mommy when they are around.
We want Lukas to learn to be considerate and polite to the people
we are with by speaking their language. Role playing with his toys
at home helps Lukas ease into the concept. We are thankful to the
Lord that Lukas seems to be able to switch from speaking to his
Mama in German to speaking to his Mommy in English depending on
the situation.
▲ Niklas keeps telling us that he wants to be a pilot some day.
Laborers needed
Would you pray with us for more workers please? Jesus said: “The laborers are few”. With the desire to raise up more workers, New Tribes Mission participated in the Crossover Christian Music Festival here near the training center. We provided speakers, camping sites and a few activities including the “Wayumi” Experience. The 125 people who participated in “Wayumi” were given a 1 ½ hour introduction to tribal missions which included a “Brazilian” boat ride, a trip to a market, meeting “tribal” people in a village, and a missions challenge. We are praying that the Lord would send forth more laborers through this experience.
Even in the Linguistics department we are painfully aware of the lack of workers. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed with the many changes we feel like we need to do to keep the course up to date and useful for the students. For example all our material needs to be changed over to the international phonetic alphabet (from the americanist phonetic alphabet) by mid August when the new semester starts. It is “like changing a tire on a moving vehicle” since we can’t just stop teaching classes until we have made all the changes. This summer break is the time to try to get everything done well, before the new semester starts.