Here is the link to view our video on packing the container: https://youtu.be/lIGzs6j-qeA

Hello everyone! Just wanted to share this brief video with you all from last Friday when we packed and sent off our container. Thank you to the Buckmans for allowing us to use their warehouse for storage and packing over the past few months and for the many workers lending us their manpower on load day. We don’t know how all of this would have been possible without them! Thank you everyone who made packing and sending a container possible and for contributing to our registries, needs lists, and donation lists! We could not do any of this without YOU all. We cannot say thank you enough. We are humbled and honoured to be an extension of so many wonderful people! As Seth said while preaching last night at our home church…

We are your feet and YOU are our knees…

Seth & Nicole Stokes

Well, it is about that time! Trip two of two comes in just a couple of days… as of right now we are scheduled to pack the container on Friday at 10:00am, as long as there are no hiccups. This is a shipping company and it is going around the world so things do come up… even though the title of this blog is called “trip 2 of 2”, number 3 is our number today. 3 days from today we pack the container in Philadelphia, and in 3 weeks from today we arrive in Vanuatu! Our time is dwindling away, piece by piece things are coming together; insurances, taxes, communication, packing and much more is coming to an end. And then, back to our dream job 🙂 .

On the Road Again…

We had a blessed Resurrection weekend worshiping our Risen Lord at our home church; from Good Friday service to Sunrise service to a packed out main service it was a time to rejoice in our Risen Saviour corporately. Christians ought not to be sorrowful people, but joyful people knowing our Lord is alive! For us it was very special. Before this furlough, we had not been in American church services for over two years, and we are not sure when our next time will be, so we have been soaking in the teaching, singing, and all the details people put into each service.

Resurrection Sunday Family Photo!

We have two more Sundays in America, Seth preaches this Sunday night at our home church, and then the following week, we have an ice-cream social after the night service on the 30^th. That will be our last chance to say good-bye to everyone and we hope you all (or at least many of you-we understand we have friends in many states 🙂 ) can make it to both events! We are super excited for the opportunity to share with our home church and then say good-bye to everyone. The time has gone by really fast, and we are sorry for those of you who we were not able to see during this trip, we will make it a point to see you all next time! Do know we love and appreciate you all, we are so thankful for your partnership in our ministry.

We also want to say thank you to everyone who donated things to our ministry, and for those of you who purchased things on our registries, we do not take your gifts and sacrifices for granted, we truly appreciate your love that you lavished upon us! Thank you for being a part to complete all of our registries and help us furnish our tribal house in Vanuatu! We have been soooo blessed by you all!

Your feet to the unreached, Seth and Nicole Stokes.

Happy Good Friday and Happy Resurrection weekend to you all! What a blessing it is to know our Saviour LIVES!

Welcome to PA!

We are coming on to the “home-stretch”! See the welcome to Pennsylvania sign? It is the last time we leave PA until we head to Vanuatu! This was the last week for us to speak at other churches (outside of our home church), to purchase items for our house, and then, Lord willing pack the container next week! We have been overwhelmed with blessings all along the way! Our overwhelmingly large needs-list, along with our registries and donation lists, are being taken care-of one piece at a time. Our needs list is over halfway complete; this past weekend another 10% was raised towards that. As you see below, all of our registries and donation list were (at the beginning) well into the many 100’s of items, and are now in a very manageable quantity to fulfill.

Presenting To Kids Sunday School Classes

Our Display Table

If you have been following us on our journey, all of this is crazy! We have less than a handful of needs left on our needs list, and we see God providing every single thing we need and then some! God slowly and surely is taking one thing off of our list at a time, all we can say is “wow”, we feel so humbled and unworthy of the love everyone is showering upon us, we are at a lack for words.

Our Dear Friend/Pastor at Rosedale

We are continually being blessed and encouraged. While presenting at a supporting church last week, Seth was preaching about encouragement and how it takes intentionality but doesn’t always need to be something big. He used in an illustration and said it could be something like baking a cake for someone. Seth mentioned how he loves cake, and then one family took it upon themselves to bake a rich and chocolaty cake with chocolate frosting, actually two cakes, and they delivered it before we left at 7am the next day! Just an amazing story of the body of Christ and how they/you continually bless us along the way as we head back to Vanuatu.

The Chocolate Cake!

If you look at these lists below, you will see that:

1. There are 20 items left on our donation list:

2. There are 0 items left on our Amazon list:

3. There are 15 items left on our Walmart list:

4. There are 39 items left on our Bed Bath and Beyond list:

Please make sure all items are delivered by Monday, April 17^th.

Thank you for your constant prayers, love, and support, we are humbled by everyone doting on us, we are excited to get back to work in less than a month!

Your feet to the unreached, Seth and Nicole Stokes

This week has been in fast-forward! We drove around all day Monday picking up our possessions from various locations with a rental truck. Then on Tuesday we drove to Philadelphia to work on packing everything for the container all day Tuesday and Wednesday. We knocked out the bulk of the work with re-packing everything, making the shipping manifest, and organizing everything for the container. This will enable us to do a quick transition when its time to pack the container. We were told we would be given a two day notice OR a two week notice when its time to pack the container… so, we have to be ready for the call. We arrived back home in Pittsburgh after 3:30am Thursday in order to see Seth’s grandparents and parents for a meal.

Packing & Friends Being a Blessing

As we write this we are packing (again) to go to a missions emphasis weekend at a supporting church, and then to speak at another supporting church Sunday night. Nicole shares at a ladies Tea, and Seth speaks at a men’s prayer breakfast. Finding time to prepare for messages can be a challenge but God is gracious and supplies just what we need at the right time.

We want to say thank-you to everyone who gave towards our registries! You guys wowed us! We don’t want to list everyone in case we miss someone, but know we appreciate the love you lavished upon us, we feel like spoiled kids. Thank you so much for, as our pastor says, “putting wind in our sails”.

Speaking of registries and time winding down, we have one-week left on our registries… we need to receive everything before the 18^th of April. We do not want to play it too close to the wire, and don’t want anyone to buy something and we are not able to bring it. SO if you are interested in being a part of this, see below. Thank you for blessing us!

Ship to:

3750 Rural Court East

Pittsburgh, PA 15221

Registries:

Our Amazon list: It is labeled “Stokes wish list for house”.

Click Here: Amazon Registry

Our Bed Bath and Beyond list: it is under Seth Stokes-“Housewarming”

Click Here: Bed Bath and Beyond Registry

Our Walmart list: is under “wedding registry”, it was either that or a baby registry… and we did not want to confuse people 🙂

Click Here: Walmart Registry

Donation List:Donate List-Reach Vanuatu

Drop Off at Harvest Baptist Church

224 Harvest Lane

Natrona Heights, PA 15605

Please pray for us! We are heading to New York shortly and it is starting to snow. Thank you all for your prayers and encouraging us! We are humbled to be called your feet to the unreached, Seth and Nicole Stokes.

Hello Everyone,

Wow! One month to go?! Where has the time gone? Click on the link below to read our latest newsletter. 

Newsletter February-March

Your Feet To The Unreached,

Seth & Nicole Stokes

We are getting ready to start trip 1 of 2… This coming Monday we will rent a box truck, pack it up, and then drive it to Philadelphia (our friends warehouse-where the container will be loaded) on Tuesday to unload. Some of our larger items like our solar system have already been shipped to the warehouse. This is a busy yet exciting time; we are making people aware of this because of our donation list and registries. IF you were interested in participating in this, could you bring those larger items to our home church by this Sunday, April 2, that would help us out tremendously! We would like to take a regular truck on the second and final trip when we go in three weeks with all of the other miscellaneous items we will receive.

We want to say thank you to you all! So many of you have already purchased things from our registries and we are amazed and humbled by your love that you have lavished on us. Thank you!

Thank you for the gifts!

Ladies Conference

We have the bulk of our insurances in process, taxes finalized (whew!), paperwork being chipped away, visa process underway, knocking out one computer job after another, solar system taken care of, our house is drawn-up and being looked at by a professional, and the container will be shipped out on April 21^st… needless to say things are a goin’… We still speak regularly. Nicole did an amazing job at our home church’ ladies conference, and we still have several other speaking engagements. Nicole speaks at a ladies tea next weekend and we share at three more churches plus a handful of other times at our home church in various Sunday school classes. We are also squeezing in some family time. Life is like standing on a balance beam; while juggling at night, in a rain storm, but God is gracious and supplying enough strength for each day. But to be honest, we are feeling rather worn out and stressed. Thank you for your prayers! Please continue to pray for us to be able to get some rest and recovery before going back.

Your feet to the unreached, Seth and Nicole Stokes.

Hi there! It is crazy to think that we head back to Vanuatu in about a month… Everyday has been filled with communicating to churches, paperwork, insurances, taxes (it’s that season), while also trying to balance seeing friends and family. Seth speaks every Sunday in Sunday school classes at our home church. Nicole has two opportunities to speak in the upcoming month, one is tomorrow (Saturday) at a ladies conference our home church is hosting, and another is in two weeks at another supporting church. Needless to say, the days are flying by and weeks seem like a moment, but God is giving us grace to make it through this season, we covet your prayers.

We recently communicated about various registries through three avenues plus a donation list. This does not include our needs-list that several churches are praying about and seeing what God would have them do (our vehicle, container and a few miscellaneous items). We have been blown away that less than a handful of individuals took care of most of our Amazon list and about half of our Walmart list! To see what is still remaining click on the links below:

Our Amazon list: It is labeled “Stokes wish list for house”.

Click Here: Amazon Registry

Our Bed Bath and Beyond list: it is under Seth Stokes-“Housewarming”

Click Here: Bed Bath and Beyond Registry

Our Walmart list: is under “wedding registry”, it was either that or a baby registry… and we did not want to confuse people

Click Here: Walmart Registry

The registry items are for our personal use, please send it to our home address and have it delivered by April 15^th.

3750 Rural Court East

Pittsburgh PA, 15221

We also made a donation list for our mission with Reach Vanuatu, we have communicated with our co-workers a good-bit and this is what we came up with: Donate List-Reach Vanuatu

The donation list can be sent to our home church by April 15^th as well, if you live near the Philadelphia area, please contact us directly and we can give you an address near you (the container ships out of Philadelphia). If you would like to send a gift to one of our teammates, please communicate to us about how you can do that.

Harvest Baptist Church

224 Harvest Ln.

Natrona Heights PA, 15605

Thank you so much for your faithfulness to us and to our ministry. Please continue to pray for us as we finalize things and get ready to get back into full-time ministry. Like we shared previously, we just want to take full advantage of this one time opportunity of sending a container and fill it to the max, it is an up-front cost but quality and prices are far better here in the USA for these items. Thank you for your prayer support, we feel that everyday, we appreciate you ministering to us in that way.

Your feet to the unreached, Seth and Nicole Stokes.

*For clarification… All registry items send to: Seth & Nicole Stokes, 3750 Rural Court East, Pittsburgh, PA 15221

Our Amazon list: It is labeled “Stokes wish list for house”.

Click Here: Amazon Registry

Our Bed Bath and Beyond list: it is under Seth Stokes-“Housewarming”

Click Here: Bed Bath and Beyond Registry

Our Walmart list: is under “wedding registry”, it was either that or a baby registry… and we did not want to confuse people 🙂

Click Here: Walmart Registry

Your feet to the unreached,

Seth and Nicole Stokes

As you all know, we leave next month to head back to Vanuatu, this is an exciting time for us, but this means several things have to happen as well. Many of you know we are shipping a container and that means we want to take full-advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity with this container. Our solar system takes up a good bit of space, but we still have empty space so we want to fill it! Many of you have asked about “what we need”, and what you “can get us”, so we put together several lists:

All registry items send to: Seth & Nicole Stokes, 3750 Rural Court East, Pittsburgh, PA 15221

Our Amazon list: It is labeled “Stokes wish list for house”.

Click Here: Amazon Registry

Our Bed Bath and Beyond list: it is under Seth Stokes-“Housewarming”

Click Here: Bed Bath and Beyond Registry

Our Walmart list: is under “wedding registry”, it was either that or a baby registry… and we did not want to confuse people 🙂

Click Here: Walmart Registry

Our Donate list: we wrote back and forth with our pastoral staff and co-workers and thought through some things that our team and our ministry could use, so we put together a list to donate towards. These things do not have to be new, but in decent shape. Everything can be delivered/sent to our home church, but if you live near the Philadelphia area, please write us and we can give you another address to send things. (Click on Link Below)

Donate to Reach Vanuatu

All items new or used (just not damaged and in good shape)

Please deliver/ship items to 1 of 2 addresses C/O Seth Stokes:

Harvest Baptist Church                                                   Valley Forge Baptist Temple

224 Harvest Lane                                                              616 South Trappe Rd.

Natrona Heights, PA 15065                                             Collegeville, PA 19426

Click Here to Open Donate List Separately: Donate List-Reach Vanuatu

We want to say “thank-you” to everyone, we don’t expect everyone to participate in this, nor do we expect to receive everything on this list, but like we said, we want to take advantage of the container. We love and appreciate you all, thank you for your prayer and partnership in our ministry.

Your feet to the unreached,

Seth and Nicole Stokes