Dear Friends,
Warm greetings from WARM central Florida! Our temperatures are in the 90’s already! It will be a hot summer!
Beka is back from a great 2 week adventure in Mexico with Amy. She had a good time, and learned lots! Now she is back working for EMS, and soon her Paramedic 3rd semester will begin.
One of our co-workers is headed to Michigan for a missions conference, and she wanted some pictures of our youth group to share there. I had such a fun time going through the pictures of the group! God really encouraged me with the ministry He has given us of discipleship and teaching the youth. Our group is up around 50 again each week, and it is fun to see them grow in the knowledge of the Word of God, and learn how to relate to others in a godly way. Several of our students are going up to Wisconsin for Bible Institute this August. Pray with us for them to do well, and learn what God has for them.
Member Services is a busy place. We have a large group of people that leave the field each year for Home Assignment in the summer months. That flow of people has begun. We also have a class intake of new members that have finished the training in Canada or the US and who will become members of NTM and move on to the Partnership Development stage of their missionary career.
How exciting to be a part of seeing new missionaries headed to the fields that are so ready to harvest! (It reminds me of Matthew 9:35-39; we have prayed, and God is sending out the laborers.)
The granddaughters are doing well. Chloe and Lily are lively girls and a source of joy to their Mom and Dad. Brett and Debby have decided to stay in Palm Bay and continue working with Grace Bible Church where they have a great ministry with the youth and the church body.
Thank you much for your part in our ministry. Your prayers and moral support are a source encouragement to us. You are a blessing!
Please pray for us as we travel this summer. We head to Michigan in June, and also to Missouri for the NTM Enrichment Conference.
This conference gives us ample opportunity to meet with missionaries on Home Assignment and be an encouragement to them. They usually encourage us as well! The kids love it, and we are thankful to be able to be a part. Pray we will be an encouragement and blessing to others there.
Great fun! Blessings go around and around! What a joy to be a channel of God’s love for others.
Joyfully Serving Him,
George and Linda Heckman and Family
New Tribes Mission Home Offices
Member Services/Personnel Department