Author: Matt and Karissa Long

November 18, 2018 Confessions of a crazy cat lady As I’ve mentioned before, our cat had 5 kittens last month.  I LOVE those kittens.  I go out on the porch to pet them and play with them whenever I can, I take pictures of them, and I’m pretty sure no one has ever come on […]

October 26, 2018 “They lied to us for so long!  They told us we had to be good.” This past month we had our central area conference.  This is a time for all of the NTM missionaries from around the region to come together and share what God is doing in their tribes, and to […]

September 15, 2018 “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” – 1 Cor. 10:31 “I hate homeschooling!” I’m sorry to say I’ve screamed, er, mumbled that to myself on more than one occasion.  Now, I don’t actually hate homeschoolingevery day, but just on those […]

August 30, 2018 “How long will these people treat me with contempt?  How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?” I came across this verse as I was reading Exodus 14 this morning.  After sending plagues on Egypt, freeing the Israelites from slavery, […]

July 18, 2018 Hanging lights, singing carols, going to neighbors’ houses with armfuls of food, feeling that early morning chill… What?  It’s July?  Maybe I better explain.  Last week our power was out for almost a week.  The early morning chill was the cold showers I had from the water heater booster not working, and the […]

June 12, 2018 “Why have I come all this way just to deal with the ordinary?” Recently I was watching a TV show, a reality show in which women from England go and spend about a month in a tribal location somewhere in the world to see what it is like.  In one episode, the […]

May 29, 2018 Special Edition: Home Building Fund Don’t like talking about money?  Me neither!  But God has given us the blessing of supporters to enable us to do ministry here, and we have to continually rely on Him working through His people to provide for our ministry.  It actually is a blessing because we […]

April 2018 Ty and Wyck made some signs and decorations because they were so happy Daddy was home after an 8 day trip.  Earlier this month, Matt got the opportunity to go along on a “mature church evaluation” trip.  That is where leadership goes and helps evaluate where a church plant is at spiritually.  It […]

Wyck learning how to garden Learning Dependence on God “Thank you, Mrs. Long,” said a student as she left my class.  It was my first day teaching at Numonohi Christian Academy (NCA), the New Tribes school at the mission center near us.  “What was she thanking me for?” I wondered as I gathered up my things […]

We went to go see an old WWII plane in the jungle. You might be a missionary kid if… Your parents pack a suitcase for vacation and you assume that you’re moving. You see fish in a pond at a restaurant and ask if that’s what we’re eating. You are baffled as to why your mom […]