This is an excerpt from a letter from a tribal group wanting missionaries to come live with them.
“I am writing to the bossmen that are in NTM. … What’s going on with your thinking? I think you are getting tired of the letters we have written. You must be thinking like this, the road to hear the talk of God it is just for you ones. That’s why you haven’t sent anyone to us in Weku.”
(Read the whole letter here.)
It’s not unusual for our missionaries in Papua New Guinea to receive letters like this — they still move me like they did when God first touched our hearts to serve in missions. (Oh, to be 25 again!)
In response to this need, the bulk of our new missionary families and singles are going to PNG. They’re being oriented and placed in tribal church-planting ministries as fast as we can without taking shortcuts that would sacrifice the quality of the work.
Yet there are still many people groups wondering when they are going to get a missionary. Please pray that God will keep raising up messengers of His Good News. How will people hear if nobody goes and how can they go if they aren’t sent? Romans 10:14,15
Not to guilt anyone at all… but as we gather around the Thanksgiving table with our families, let’s take time to thank the Lord for those who brought the God’s Word to our family and pray for those who haven’t heard, and also for our brothers and sisters who’ve left their homes and families to share our Father’s love.
With gratitude for the privilege of having a small part in this effort,
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