Hello everyone!
It is FINALLY finished! After lots of work editing and clipping the many hours of footage, and a friend writing and compiling a song, we can now let you all see the finished product! It is our first video so bear with it not being a perfect video. But it is a great visual and turned out great! Thank you to all who played a part of this trip happening. Enjoy!
Here is the link:
http://youtu.be/MTpu56CNG8A
Let me know if the link doesn’t work
82: Beds
16: States (we are about to add 4 new states in the upcoming weeks)
2: Countries (plus Seth’s trip 🙂 )
200K: Miles on our Car
50+: Churches Spoke at/Visited
52%: Monthly Financial Goal
Our Little Red Rocket
Deuteronomy 29:5
“And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot”.
Our car is only a 2003, but we feel at times God has preserved our possessions (much like the wandering Israelites) so that we did not have to fix or purchase unnecessary items. From our car to our clothes we had since high school, we see God being gracious to us in many ways. Another statistic that we cannot keep track of, are the lives God impacted through us and people He used to impact us. We have story after story of how men, women, pastors, missionaries, and kids have come up to us and thanking us…saying things like “we have never looked at missions like this”…“how come I have missed something so big?”… “I feel like God is leading me into missions”…“I am not involved enough in missions”. This is humbling; we are not eloquent speakers by any means, and yet God sees fit to use us in His work. We are no more than servants (Luke 17:10), serving our God.
Please continue to pray for us in our travels, and that we would be able to raise our support quick enough to get to the field. We covet your prayers and support.
Your feet to the unreached, Seth and Nicole.
Support Chart-9/5/14
No we are not having a raffle :), but we are able to say that by God’s mercy and grace we are at 50% of our monthly financial goal in just under 50 weeks! This is so exciting, the reality of being in PNG this January is looking more and more real. God has been too good to us, when we started this journey we were praying to be at 75% of our financial goal in 16 months. Many people thought that it would be impossible, several people in disbelief, but we keep praying and know God will work everything out according to His timing. 3 ladies in particular have told us in the past week or so that they have been praying that we get to the field fully supported, wow that is a big prayer and we are humbled by the faith of these 3 dear friends in what God can do. It is humbling to know that people are praying even bigger prayers than you are, with more confidence and expectation in God. We know that whatever the outcome, God is Sovereign and everything will work out according to HIS timing and will. It is encouraging to know we have these (and many other) people making intercession for us in all aspects of our ministry.
We also would like to ask prayer for safe travel mercies, do not pray for a hedge of protection around our car, but instead a 3 foot concrete wall with steel plating :). We will be traveling to 16 states in about 10 weeks starting this weekend, and we go back and forth between a couple of them more than once. States like; PA, NJ, VA, NC, SC, MO, KS, IN, OH, FL, MD, DC, TN, KY, NY and MI, that takes us up to Thanksgiving week. We have several churches we are speaking at, re-connecting with other churches and individuals, and much more in between. So hold on, we are about to drive some serious miles quickly. Seth’s mother knew we were going to drive quite a bit in a short time, so like a great mother, she has offered to switch cars with us during that time since our car will be over 200k by then. Yet another blessing from God, He always uses people to bless others, and this time it is Seth’s mother.
Thank you all for your support and constant prayers, we deeply covet your intercession, partnership, and friendship.
Your feet to the unreached of PNG, Seth and Nicole.
This past Labor Day weekend was a blur; we were able to connect with some good friends and have great fellowship, present our ministry at a church, re-connect with supporters, and connect with 7 pastors/missions coordinators. In less than 4 days we traveled about 1,500 miles to make those connections, all the while God really continued to show He is God and the provider for His children. He continues to amaze us and show us that missions is Who He Is; it is His work and He is the builder of His church. He also shows that He is the Provider (Jehovah-Jireh) and providential orchestrator of our support. We can speak at as many churches we see fit, we can present a powerful ministry, but God is still the One Who continues to show-off and raise our finances and support team. We went to New York to present our ministry to one church, talk with one pastor, and enjoy fellowship with our friends. We left overwhelmed with opportunities and possibilities of God taking care of our financial requirement right then and there. We continually are humbled by those who would consider partnering with us. We are left in awe of our God in how He is raising our support.
We left this weekend super encouraged, not merely because of the possibility of new partners…but because every appointment was Divinely orchestrated; a heart for missions was expressed, fellowship occurred, and we know God was brought glory in our time and conversation. We will continue to speak at churches to raise awareness of missions for the untold millions of unreached people groups across the world without a Bible. We surrender every aspect of our support-raising phase to God and we will sit back as if in an audience applauding His work being done, and being amazed by Him.
Last week we were able to get another big thing off our list and we are now officially CPR, AED, and FIRST AID certified! God orchestrated this as well and connected us with the right people; we were able to get it done relatively conveniently and at a significantly cheaper cost. What an amazing God!
Praise God for taking care of us and protecting us as we travel. Pray for our upcoming meetings; we have several of them in September and October. Pray that those who have already expressed interest in partnering with us would follow through so that we could get to our financial goal. Pray for those we just met and will be meeting with soon that they might partner with us and speedily so that we can get to the field of PNG this January. Pray that we would continue to learn more about God and His grace and trust Him more in our every day life.
~Your feet to the unreached, Seth & Nicole
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