{"id":390,"date":"2013-09-09T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/?p=390"},"modified":"2015-06-19T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T19:24:51","slug":"families-in-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/2013\/09\/09\/families-in-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Families in Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a>On August 19th another semester began at New Tribes Missionary Training Center. Missionary candidates are\u00a0training to go overseas to take God’s Word to unreached people groups around the world. Seventy-three\u00a0returning students and their children settle back in to continue their cross-cultural training. Forty-six new\u00a0students and their children arrive and adjust to new living conditions, new schedules, new classes, new\u00a0techniques, new relationships. One hundred forty-two staff again get involved in the lives of these candidates.\u00a0Some are more directly engaged with the students, participating in things like teaching, discipleship, and child\u00a0care; others help in areas like administration, construction, and maintenance.<\/p>\n

All staff and students are here for the same purpose: to be a part of God’s work in reaching unreached people\u00a0groups with the Gospel. Recent statistics show that there are still over 2,100 language groups without God’s\u00a0Word. That’s a lot of souls needing to be reached, which will take a lot of people with the Good News willing to\u00a0go and tell them! That’s why we are here at the training center—to help train others to go and take the Good\u00a0News to those who have never yet heard.<\/p>\n

\"FiM\"<\/a>For us personally, a few things have changed for this semester. In our department,\u00a0Families in Ministry, our group of 8 members has decreased to 5. Three of our\u00a0coworkers have left for various reasons and we are sad to see them go. We are\u00a0thankful that we had last year to work with them all and \u201clearn the ropes\u201d,\u00a0especially seeing as John (being the only man of our current group) is stepping into\u00a0the department coordinator role, doing most of the administration, and teaching\u00a0more in the classes that our department provides. Melanie’s role will not change\u00a0that much as she will continue working with the finances for our\u00a0department. She will also\u00a0be fitting in as needed, assisting John and the others in any areas necessary as we\u00a0transition and shift responsibilities.<\/p>\n

We will also continue with our small group of students that we disciple along with 2 other staff couples. We’ve\u00a0been meeting with the same group for a year and, although one couple has already graduated and left for the\u00a0field and one single gal left to get married, we have one more semester with the rest of them, and have added\u00a0one more couple to our group, making a total of 3 couples (with 5 kids between them), 2 single guys and 3 single\u00a0girls. We really enjoy our time with them and count it a blessing to connect with them at this stage of their\u00a0lives and ours.<\/p>\n

Please pray for us as we serve the Lord by helping train all these candidates for cross-cultural life and ministry.\u00a0God has given us the privilege of sharing our field experience with those who will reach out to others, sharing\u00a0the Good News with those who have never heard. Our desire is to live transparent lives before these candidates,\u00a0sharing and growing together, as we are involved in their lives for a short time during their year and a half long\u00a0training, and beyond as we maintain contact with them. There is an urgency to the task of reaching the\u00a0unreached, and yet we know how easily we can get out of balance with life’s demands. Please pray for us to\u00a0stay balanced in all areas of life, and especially in taking on new responsibilities as we don’t want to become\u00a0overloaded again. We are privileged to serve our awesome God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 19th another semester began at New Tribes Missionary Training Center. Missionary candidates are\u00a0training to go overseas to take God’s Word to unreached people groups around the world. Seventy-three\u00a0returning students and their children settle back in to continue their cross-cultural training. Forty-six new\u00a0students and their children arrive and adjust to new living conditions, new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[448,56,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"tag-mtc","9":"tag-new-tribes-mission","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}