A Hasty Decision

September 9, 2013

We’re going to be doing a webfast for the next month! The whole first semester class is doing it, and we didn’t get this opportunity our first semester since it hadn’t been introduced yet. Our friends in CP1 wrote good blog posts about it, so I’ll let them do the explaining! Check out the Miller’s […]

El Fin

December 25, 2012

Church Planting 1 (CP1) is finished! We’re 1/3 of the way to being trained church-planters…well, it doesn’t feel like we’ve even made a dent in the immensity of that task, but we are progressing, albeit slowly. Payton enjoyed that all of the classes seemed to fit together into one big picture. Learning Styles – appreciating […]

Around Campus

October 30, 2012

Outside: The trees have all turned and it’s a joy to walk around with the scent of leaves in the air and campfires burning. Fishing has been a dud in the past few weeks—too much warm weather, I’m told. Bring on the cold! I want to stock the freezer with white bass before heavy winter. […]

MTC – Our First Few Days

August 21, 2012

All of our earthly possessions arrived Thursday night via our friends the Millers and Cizdziels, for which we were utterly thankful! We were excited to know that our use of camping sporks was almost over. It was great to see familiar faces again and enjoy catching up. We explored the campus and met new people. They […]

Catch Up: Wayumi

May 26, 2012

Wow, I’m behind! I’ve let a month go by and not typed a thing. Let me go back to the beginning of May… The entire NTBI senior class went to Jersey Shore, PA for a week of Wayumi. We got a sample platter of our future classes at the MTC in Missouri, ranging from Animism to […]

A Very Full Week

April 29, 2012

Our weeks are flying by and getting busier and busier by the moment! We just finished up Eschatology, Pastoral Epistles, and 1,2,3 John. Last weekend we stayed on campus a littler later than usual (before heading to my parents’ house). Jake and Ally Glover and the Rory Tyer Band performed in the Student Center here at […]

Taxes, Necks, and Potato Sacks

February 15, 2012

Winter is the perfect time for crafty things–I mean the paper and fabric kind, not the sneaky kind. Well, I’m sure winter holds plenty of room for deception, but I prefer hauling out the sewing machine or the folder with all the magazine cutouts. Although, I did have to haul out the folder with all […]

Maher-shalal-hash-baz?

February 5, 2011

Maher-shalal-hash-baz? Well, it most certainly wasn’t voted as one of the top ten boy names this year, but in the 6th century BC, it was top of the charts, along with Shear-Jashub–and for girls names (about fifty years earlier), it was Gomer. Well, as you might have guessed, we’re smackdab in the middle of our […]

In the Beginning, God…

September 1, 2010

So, we’ve officially made it through the first week of school! The curriculum is chronological, moving from Genesis through Revelation with the understanding that each book builds upon another. You cannot understand Exodus until you understand Genesis, and so on and so forth until you realize that Christ cannot be understood in fullness until you […]