Author: James and Lisa Hatton

This past year we have seen our family spread out around five countries in the world. Martha moved to the States to take up a position on staff at New Tribes Bible Institute.  She is part of the Dean’s department, working one on one with the single girls students.  It is challenging and exciting and […]

Yesterday, Lisa and I stood at the top of Slieve Bearnagh together with our kids, Deborah, Martha and Isaac and good friend Geoff McNab.  Geoff is an experienced hill walker and guided us to the top of Bearnagh, the third highest peak in the Mourne Mountains at 2386ft. We drove down to the Mournes in […]

We have just left Benjamin and Missy and their kids to the airport.  They had a mountain of baggage, it seemed, which, unfortunately, they have to pick up in London to check in for their flight to Australia. They will have a 12 hour flight followed by a 9 hour flight followed by a 12 […]

Benjamin and Missy and their four kids leave the USA tomorrow, Monday 4 October for PNG.  It is quite incredible to think that Lisa and I left for PNG nearly 25 years ago with our four children who were about the same ages as their children are now. We have the joy of spending the […]

We had the joy of visiting the kids and grandkids in the States last month.  We visited Benjamin and Missy in Michigan where we were able to help them finish up packing their crates to send to PNG.  They have their tickets in hand and will be leaving for PNG 4 October, so do pray […]

When in the States this summer, we had opportunity to visit supporters in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  Our son, Benjamin, has become an American citizen so had to study American history.  He became interested in it and introduced us to a DVD series on John Adams, the second president of the United States.  We learned […]

In February, Isaac was accepted by the Ben Gurion Medical School to train as a doctor specializing in medicine for developing countries.  He is in Israel with enough funds to get him through his first semester.  Pray that God would raise up the funds he needs to continue.  Pray also that God would help him […]

Our school year came to an end with the graduation of 25 students from our Biblical Studies course, 17 students from our Cross Cultural Communication Course and 3 students from our Applied Linguistics Course.  Of the 25 Biblical Studies students who graduated, 15 will be going on to further training with NTM, 13 here in […]

Thank you for your prayers for the course Lisa and I taught together last term.  We heard a number of comments from the students who said that it was helpful to them. We are approaching our final term of the year.  I will be teaching 2 Corinthians and The Christian Life.  I would appreciate your […]

Just last week, the Uriay people in PNG began to hear the message of the gospel for the first time in their own language.  ‘In the beginning God…’ are such familiar words to us and yet the beginning of a new world view for the Uriay. Pray that God would deal with any distractions, give […]