Author: James and Lisa Hatton

We have been enjoying the Easter break with Deborah, our daughter, over from N. Ireland and staying with us here at North Cotes. We have enjoyed trips to Scarborough, Whitby and to Chatsworth House. When the students return, I will have three new courses to teach and would ask for your prayers for the preparation […]

These last two weekends we were able to attend two NTM conferences.  The first one was held in N. Irelands, the annual residential conference that is held in Newcastle by the Mountains of Mourne.  Lisa and I had opportunity to take part as did our daughter Martha who was able to report on her new […]

Our daughter, Martha, finished up her training with NTM in July 2009.  She left with the desire to go to the field and be involved in tribal work.  On a trip to the States to visit her brothers, she was asked to consider a position on staff at the New Tribes Bible Insititute in Jackson, […]

Our son Isaac recently graduated from College of the Ozarks and has been accepted to the Ben Gurion Medical School in Beersheba to train as a doctor.  Ben Gurion specializes in preparing doctors to serve in developing countries and this is where Isaac’s heart lies.  He would like to do medical missions with a focus […]

A few months ago I purchased the Logos 4 Bible software and have been enjoying using it.  It is a great tool for preparing lessons to teach here at NTM’s Biblical Studies course at North Cotes. I am also working on a Masters in Ministry by distance education through Bethany Divinity College and Seminary in […]

Visa Problem – we’d value your prayers!   Our son Isaac is due to return to the States on 11 January, however, he has just found out that, because he has left the States, he needs a job or a job offer in order to get back in.  He doesn’t have a job or a […]

May we wish you a very happy new year trusting you had an enjoyable Christmas season. School starts tomorrow although a few of the students have been having trouble getting back with the bad weather.  Since our school is out in the middle of nowhere, the roads are not treated so are pretty slippery until […]

This summer we enjoyed friends from down under and we went back over the pond to see our kids in the States. Phil and Fiona Emery are good friends from Australia. We worked with them for many years in PNG. They were on their way to the USA for meetings so stretched their airmiles to […]

Ten years ago in September 1999, NTM opened it doors at North Cotes to their first students to go through the newly established European Bible and Missionary Training Centre. Having spent almost twenty years at Matlock which provided Biblical studies only, this was an answer to prayer to be able to offer the complete NTM […]