2017 YEAR IN PREVIEW

January 30, 2017

KNAPPNEWS January, 2017 TO OUR PRAYING FRIENDS: Year in Projection Often, this time of year brings reports and “year in review” updates. Well, this letter is more about the exciting projections for our year ahead. Yes, God has done a lot for and through us this last year. Even WE get tired reading our schedule […]

Getting the office ready

January 30, 2017

We’ve been able to move things over to our new offices at the new building downtown! Here I am moving over a few boxes. I still have some files and things to move over, but our Advancement team is excited about getting into our new floor together. We’ll be combining stewardship development, mobilization and the […]

Our continued Hot water woes and Jim’s health

January 29, 2017

Our Hot water system was still not working. Our Tech guy, Josh Simmons, made two trips up to work on our plumbing situation. Thankfully, he was able to replace old plumbing and improve the whole system and put in an expansion tank which made the hot water flow but caused numerous leaks in our old […]

The New Roomies…

January 27, 2017

So we took the plunge last night…and put Zacky in Gracie’s room. Poor kid has really outgrown his Moses basket/bassinet and needed a bit more space for sleeping. So with a bit of rearranging…then re-rearranging…and just one more time, let’s try it this way…(to my ever-so patient husband’s chagrin)…we managed to squeeze the travel cot/crib […]

Living out of a Box

January 27, 2017

As I piled into the boat with Aaron and my girls, I shook my head and felt like crying. I thought I’d have another week for this transition. I wasn’t quite ready to leave the Patpatar behind yet. … This is just one illustration of some of the things that have been happening in our […]

Story in January 2017

January 26, 2017

Want a challenge? Often we pick a goal or resolution for the New Year, and this year Martha and I were at a mission workshop January 4-6. The workshop was for international missionary trainers. Martha and I were there on behalf of the training program in West Africa, where our co-workers are training Africans to […]

75 years and Counting

January 25, 2017

Did you know Macon Celebrated his 75th Birthday last Christmas Day? Did you know that NTM is celebrating 75 years of ministry in 2017? This year you will see some great articles in NTM@Work both from our past and for our hopes for the future of reaching more tribal peoples. You are part of […]

Sacrifice

January 25, 2017

The first of 8 value videos to be released! This one was put together, including some 16mm film reels from the archive that were digitized, as well as some more recent footage, and combined using three After Effects (motion graphics software) templates.

Ethan Turns 10

January 24, 2017

We have reached double digits! Ethan has grown in amazing ways this year. He has really gotten to a place where he reads scripture and can start applying it to his life and to where I can see him making his faith his own. He is our game strategist and avid audio book listener. This […]

The Day We Moved to Africa

January 24, 2017

There it was. The day we moved to Africa. On that day, we woke up our kids early, drove to the airport in below freezing temperatures, checked in our eight suitcases, and said goodbye. On that day, we boarded airplanes, entertained our boys, ran through airports, watched the clouds from above, thanked God for a […]