Travels This Month
Although we do not have red shoes to click together, God has blessed us with a little red car that keeps on going. Since October 27th until November 10th, we have put over 3,500k on our car. The above map shows our path during this past trip. (Start with the dark blue arrow from Pittsburgh to New Jersey). We have gone as far east as north New Jersey, to as far west as Kansas. Seth missed two nights of sleep in six days to drive through the night. We left New Jersey at almost midnight Sunday night (Nov. 3rd) and arrived in Kansas around 7:20pm to be a part of their mission’s conference.
In Kansas-Pastor Stine
Then Friday night drove to Ohio for a men’s conference only to be there just in time to hear the preaching. This was a total blessing for Seth! To see well over 500 men get together to worship our Lord. Coincidentally, our home pastor was one of the main speakers.
In Ohio-Men’s Conference
It was refreshing to see some familiar faces during our travels; we even reconnected with some of our teachers from our training while traveling through Missouri. We are waiting to hear back from several churches to see if they will partner (prayerfully, financially, encouragement) with us…Pray that God puts it on their hearts to partner with us in this BIG task our Lord has given us.
We have had opportunity after opportunity to share our ministry with churches and individuals; telling them what God is doing around the world and how they can be personally involved in our ministry. We continue to share the need of missions and specifically “unreached people groups” around the world. We continue to see a lack of awareness about this great need and passion for the unreached people groups of this world. We have been even asked why do you not go the “traditional route” of missions? (Referring to going to developed countries that have the Bible already in their language). We see in the life of Paul to preach, “where Christ was not named”, and that he was the apostle/sent-one/missionary to the gentiles (ethnic or non-Jews). Also, Jesus’ great command was to go (emphasis on being active), make disciples (this takes quite some time, Jesus Himself discipled men for 1-3 years), and to do this with all nations (ALL ethnicities people groups). With our Lord commanding us and by seeing the life of Paul as an example, this is “why” we are doing what we are doing.
We will be back in Pittsburgh on the 21st for a short period of time. By that time we will have visited over 25 churches since September 15th. Nicole is having an “event” with the ladies of our home church and any profits that come from that time will help subsidize any of our travel expenses. More importantly, we just want people to come to that event on the 21st because it will be great to see some familiar faces and fellowship; it will be very refreshing for us if you come, thank you!
We will continue to keep traveling, hitting the road at full-force because we know the need is great, with many tribes waiting for missionaries, and we know that in us in no good or special thing, but the message we have will forever change their lives. Please pray God provides more partners in this eternal work, and for our safety until we get to PNG. More missionaries’ die in the U.S. driving a car then on the field, so pray we leave soon 🙂
Stoking The Fires 