From the field – that is wintery white – for the harvest

Our ministry team is totally engaged in several exciting efforts.

New presentations of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, THE Savior, are underway and more will begin soon. As an example, a new team is looking at a teeny location in Asia Pacific, not a word of Scripture there. This endeavor will require much endurance and will bring hardships yet to be experienced. Through prayer letters we will remain connected to this newly forming ministry.

We pray, in our NTM of Canada offices, for many other ministry teams each week. The Lord brings us word of difficulties and exuberance, challenges to the Gospel as well as new believers beginning their journey in the Body of Christ. Included in these times of prayer are the candidates in the training. Our privilege is being connected, though at great distance in most cases. We serve these ministry partners with joy.

Our family is serving our community in a local congregation. Each time we gather with the young adults group it is clear a biblical worldview foundation is all but disappeared. We are in a culture where God. Jesus and everything else are all accepted as truth yet not independently. It seems like a totally syncretised amalgamation of every belief. The only thing that we haven’t observed, yet, is complete animistic fear driven lives. We are encouraged as the Lord is building our relationships with these young, confused adults.

NTM of Canada is trusting the Lord for a new (renovated building project currently underway) “Connection Centre”. The vision is that this will be a hub for connecting more Canadians with the ministries of NTM of Canada. The Connection Centre will house some much needed classroom space for the Missionary Training program as well as provide a modernised, multimedia presentation facility. NTM of Canada is trusting the Lord for the finances to see this vision become a reality.

If you click this link it will copy a video file to your computer which should be playable by your computer. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4440108/connection-centre-mobile.mp4.zip.

There is also a Project underway to upgrade the existing WiFi services across the entire campus. Expenses for the current system are very costly and with this Wifi project there is a potential for increased savings and marked improvement of WiFi services for staff and candidates. Our team is counting on the Lord for the finances and wisdom to complete this project before the next group of new Missionary candidates joins the training program in August 2014! Please pray with us for the finances, people resources and the necessary time to do this job. The picture gives a glimpse of the extent of the projects size and change

There are updates to our Prayer Points page – take a moment to look them over. We appreciate you joining with us about each of these.

We have so much to be thankful for and we are especially grateful for your partnership! We realize the Lord is using you to reach the world with His Gospel and we are a small part of what He is doing through you. Thank you for allowing us to be an extension of your ministry while we serve with New Tribes Mission on the field in Canada. We couldn’t be here without you! We love and appreciate each one of you.

Thank you again for making it possible for us to serve our Lord in this way, WITH YOU!!

Roland Jr, Jinni and the Shafer kids