Heckman’s wish you a great year, walking closely to the Savior!
Thanks for your continued interest in our ministry. It has been great hearing from many of you via e-mail! Thanks for keeping us up to date on your lives as well!
January holds many interesting events for us.
Beka has 3 recording sessions at Full Sail University in Orlando. Their state of the art equipment gives her songs a new professional dimension. She has had 2 sessions so far, and has recorded 4 songs. You can listen to them on her facebook.com “Band page” by going to www.facebook.com/bekaheckman. You can get a download of her songs from www.noisetrade.com as well. She is also beginning to work a fulltime shift for the EVAC ambulance in Volusia county for the next 6 weeks or so. She still loves her work.
Linda has surgery on her hand January 19. Thanks for your prayers as we go one-handed for the next couple of months. They will be removing bone from her left hand and replace it with a tendon to form a natural cushion for the now arthritic joint which causes lots of pain. The doc says not to use my laft hand for 6 weeks. Think I can do it?
We still keep busy with our work at the Member Services Offices at NTM. We handle much paperwork which enables our missionaries to remain at their work of tribal evangelism. We do a lot of correspondence with our mission family to help them, and be a resource for their needs. We communicate with our members who are nearing retirement age, and those who find the need to move on to other ministries or care for aging parents and have to step out of the NTM ministry for a time. This scratches the surface of our responsibilities, but I wanted to give you a glimpse. Please pray for us as we minister here at the Home Offices of NTM.
Our ministry with the MK (Missionary Kid) teens and their friends continues with some review this week and then we plan on taking a group to Dare 2 Share in Lakeland in February. Pray we get a good group to go. We have discounted tickets, but need to get some fundraisers lined up quickly! Time is flying away!
peaking of “flying away”, Amy flies away also this Saturday. It has been a pleasure to have her home for a few weeks. David flies back to cold Wisconsin next week. It has been nice to have him home, too! Brett and Debby and the Grand-girls joined us for a week or so around Christmas as well. We had a full house and lots of laughs! We missed Hector, but he joined us several times on SKYPE. What a blessing to have our children walking with the Lord!
Amy and Hector are trying to get wedding plans arranged. We have an answered prayer in that Hector got a job. He is planning on taking the training in Mexico, now that his visa situation did not work out. That will begin in August 2012. They are thinking of a summer wedding, in Florida. After that time, they will move out to the Mexican training center as well, and Amy will be involved there with the folks in training, while Hector studies.
Thank you so much for the support you have offered to us. We appreciate your kind generosity. Please remember to pray for us as we balance our time, ministries, and home business. Thanks much!
George and Linda Heckman
& Family
PRAYER REQUESTS:
Linda’s surgery and recovery
Amy & Hector’s wedding and training plans
George wisdom in his work
Beka’s recording and wisdom for how to best use her music ministry
David to have enough hours at his job to cover his school bills
Brett and Debby as they raise their girls to love God, and their ministry with Grace Bible Church
Tim to finish his last semester of High school well, he also needs a job.
Thank you!!