The Nine
When we mention the number nine, what do you think of? A baseball team? The fellowship of the Ring? The lepers who didn’t thank Jesus? Here at the Missionary Training Center, the nine, is our most recent incoming class. It is the smallest that we have ever had. God can do great things with small amounts of people. Judges 7 tells us how God winnowed an army and used only 300 men to defeat a much larger Midianite force. God used a man, his wife, two children and their spouses to save the human race from extinction. One willing teenager was used by God to kill the Philistine champion and rout their army. Yes, God specializes in using the few, the weak and the unexpected to accomplish his goals, but He also tells us to pray for laborers to be sent out into the harvest. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Evidently, in this one important task, God is looking for many harvesters, not just a few. Let’s be praying and willing to go.
And He said to them, The harvest indeed is abundant, but the farmhands are few.
Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
Luke 10:2
From the Ling Department
Dennis is glad to have a new coworker in the linguistics department. Dan and his wife worked for many years in a tribe in Brazil and felt that it was time for them to come back to the States. He is sitting in Dennis’ linguistics class this semester and will be going to Oklahoma with him in August. As of now we are anticipating that Dennis will go to Oklahoma while Monika and the kids stay in Missouri so that the boys won’t miss school.
Dennis & Monika with Lukas, Niklas and Anna