Refocused & a Brief Re-Cap

Seth & Dem Kids

Seth has been back in the states for less than 10 days; how the time has flown! We were separated for 34 days. After traveling thousands of miles, and taking 4 days to make the journey, he made it back mid-day Wednesday last week. He was able to be in church that evening at our home church in PA and see friends and enjoy the air-conditioning :). We received large packets of paperwork from the field of PNG while Seth was gone, and we have worked on them since he got back. It is exciting, overwhelming, and yet surreal. A January departure is looking more and more feasible the closer we get! Seth spoke at a new church 8 days ago in PA and yesterday in NY, both of which seemed very interested in partnering with us; we left both places very encouraged.

We are currently over 44% of our actual support raised! Praise God! We need to get to that 75% mark and it seems more realistic now that we are over halfway. God is so good to us! We have been on the deputation/support-raising trail for about 10 months and it looks like we will be able to leave in January, Lord willing. Would you pray that God would provide 30 more supporters at 1% of our support? 30 more partners! That is all we need to get to our goal! We spoke at significantly more churches than that in the past 10 months, so it seems within reach. We have had over 10 churches and 15 individuals say they wanted to partner with us as well, but have not followed through with their commitments just yet.

We are currently filtering through 9 hours of video and 1000+ pictures that Seth took while in Indonesia, we plan to make a video to share with all those who helped partner with us for Seth’s trip. Thank you to all of you who partnered with us through prayer and finances for that missions trip. Seth gained a great deal of skills and perspectives while over there; he fell in love with the people (who are very similar to the type of people we will be ministering to), and learned more about the practicality of tribal missions. Seth’s heart broke for a people who wanted to know the Creator and yet still cannot because the Bible has not been translated into their language (yet). There are several tribes like this, wanting (and some are even asking!) missionaries so that they can have the Bible in their language for the purpose of knowing their Creator and Savior. Please pray for laborers to go into His Harvest (Matt. 9:38); there is still so much work that needs to be done!

We hope to emphasize the need of missions more while we share about our ministry. We will try to make the video ASAP, we will post an update on Seth’s trip soon as well, and the latest newsletter will come out this week! Stay tuned!

Plane Landed in the Tribe