Seth has spent a lot of time on the phone this past month, calling many churches. He leaves many voice mails, he jokes about not being on the phone this much since dating! God has already blessed us with many contacts and by God’s grace we have pretty much scheduled one meeting a day. We are praying God will open the hearts of the people we talk to, so that they will be a part of our support team. Please keep this in mind; most of the meetings we schedule are because of other people being advocates for us, and speaking on our behalf. Please pray and see if God would have you do this and be an advocate for us in your “spheres of influence”.

Speaking of call…we had a great time with our dear friends Jeff and Carol Kahl this past week at camp CoBeAc. We also saw Brother Ken McCoy, Tim Rader, and Jim Matson. We love these men and were with them on a trip to Nicaragua two years ago. Fast forward to today, these men are developing an international organization called Project 14, which will be focusing on national church plants. We had a great time up there in Michigan;

Seth Teaching the WRBBI Students

we even visited a pastoral conference  that was very encouraging in the “U.P.” (Upper Peninsula). Seth had the opportunity to challenge young men and women at Walk Right Baptist Bible Institute into full-time missions. What a total blessing! Praise God that He continues to raise up laborers for His harvest!

Continue to pray for us so that we can raise a support team quickly, we are ready to answer our great God’s call of going overseas and serving Him in missions!

Carol Kahl & Nicole

Pastor Jim Matson, Jeff Kahl, Seth, & Nicole

Pastor Tim Rader & Seth

Hello friends and teammates, Here is our latest newsletter! We are excited as we are getting closer to being able to leave for PNG but we still have a long way to go. Please read, print out, and pass out our newsletter with as many people as you can! Thank you!

NL-8-9 ’13

Newsletter

We love when God shows up and His people have an already prepared heart! We are young and always feel inadequate, but the Lord enabled us to speak clearly and deliver what He wanted us to deliver. Everyone seemed very receptive and afterward, Nicole had an opportunity to talk to a young lady who has been burdened to go into full-time ministry, likewise, Seth had an opportunity to talk to a young man who also has been burdened to go into full-time ministry. We hope that we were able to encourage and give some advice to these young adults to pursue full- time ministry. Please pray that these young adults would surrender fully to God’s leading for their lives and would be protected against the attacks from the Devil. Also, pray for the church where we just spoke. They publicly said that if their mission’s budget increases this year, they would take us on for support! Praise God! Much like the Pastor said tonight, “we get involved in missions because that is where God greatly blesses. There are only two types of people in the Bible; the senders and the sent”. We greatly agree with what the Pastor said; this is why we are involved in missions and are being sent.

Pray for our fellow missionary friends (also in this missions conference) going to New Zealand. They are at 89% support and are almost ready to go.

Pray for our fellow missionary friends (home on furlough, spoke at the missions conference) who are currently serving in Tanzania. Several aspects of their ministry are changing and they are asking God for wisdom.

Also, pray for our fellow missionary friends in Cambodia, (“Skyped” them in Cambodia while in our service) they are looking to grow their ministry and purchase land for a church building.

Thank you for reading our prayer requests earlier! We greatly appreciate your encouragement and support!

This update is to keep YOU involved in our ministry. If you have a moment, would you please pray for us tonight! Around 7pm Eastern Standard Time, we will be sharing about our ministry at a church during it’s missions conference here in Michigan. This church has already been a huge blessing and encouragement to us. Please pray that we can communicate God’s heart for the lost of this world effectively while also being transparent and showing how God has challenged/convicted/compelled/and changed us forever to be a part of His harvest.

We thought it would be fun to keep track of certain things like; states visited, beds slept in, and miles traveled. So since the end of May to the end of September we have (the past four months);

Beds stayed in: 23 different beds

States visited: 10 states visited

Miles traveled: Over 13,000 miles traveled

We almost ran out of gas, the picture below can attest to that. We have a 14 gallon tank, so God really spared us. 🙂

Close Call

And counting…this trip has reminded us of when our Lord Jesus sent out His disciples and how they were not to care about where they stayed, and it was just a command to go. This is just a foreshadow as His servants for when we are to go overseas for full-time service for our Lord.

“And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide…” -Luke 9:4

“So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, WE are unprofitable servant: WE have done that which was OUR duty to do. ” Luke 17:10

“And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide…” -Luke 9:4

Yes, we are on the road again. This trip will be the longest trip in one succession we have taken to date. We began our trip by heading from Pittsburgh to our first stop in Ohio. Next, we traveled to Michigan for a 3-week tour. With one week down, we have 2 and a half more to go until we head back to PA in time for our home church’s missions conference. Immediately after that, we will head to New Jersey to visit several other churches and attend another missions conference. Following that, we will drive to Illinois for another conference and will be making stops at other churches. We might be home for Thanksgiving? Only to have more speaking engagements already booked in December and January in the PA area and Michigan areas. Please pray with us that each one of these “visits” would represent not just possible prayer and financial support, but also that it provides an opportunity for us to connect with God’s people; to encourage, bless, and have genuine fellowship.

This week has begun a new phase in our lives; we are officially doing “deputation” (fund-raising).  In this first week of our tour we have stayed in a different bed each night, and yes that is 7 beds in 7 nights. We stayed at a “prophets chamber” in Ohio and thoroughly enjoyed the fellowship with the pastoral staff and the people who hosted us. We had a great time; ate hamburgers and hot dogs off the grill, played in a corn-hole tournament, and rejoiced with the church as they had a special emphasis during their service, focusing on what God has done in their church with adding many new members. That meeting led to an invite to their missions conference next year! Praise God. Then we had an opportunity to share with a church in Michigan and help them hand out invitations to their open house TODAY (9-22). Please pray that the church can connect with the community and have a good turn out so that souls can be saved and our Lord can be glorified. We technically stayed in an eighth bed for several hours, that bed was our car 🙂 We camped out one night and Nicole was woken up in the early morning to our neighbors fighting…they were hissing and sounded pretty angry at one another, they were raccoons. I did manage to surprise Nicole one day; we stayed at a bed and breakfast (our first) as a belated anniversary gift. We have been busy and did not have the time to celebrate it, we celebrate events when we can and it does not have to be on that day, what a good thing! Our anniversary was about 2 months ago 🙂

We had the opportunity to stay with a good friend for a day. We will start heading towards upper Michigan to be a part of a missions conference. We will stay with church members; go camping, stay at two different bible institutes and wherever else we can during this trip. We still have many more churches to visit before we go back to PA. We are doing our best to grow closer together by studying the Word more with one another, and praying as a couple more so that we can sharpen one another. We want to use this phase of life (whether it takes 6 months or 18 to raise our support, only God knows) to strengthen our marriage so we can be a stronger team by the time we get to the field. Please pray for us that we can be sensitive to the Spirit and His leading with churches and individuals, pray that we can raise our support on God’s timing and that we can use that time for His eternal praise and glory. Continue to pray for our car that it would not wear out until we head to the field like the Israelites clothing while they wandered in the wilderness. Also, please pray for the health of the indigenous people in PNG that God would preserve them until they receive missionaries so that they can hear God’s glorious Gospel of salvation before they die and go to an eternal state of torment. At the end of the day, this is why we are doing what we are doing, the BIG picture…that the eternal state of souls would be altered, from going to an eternal state of torment to one that is filled with everlasting Joy in having a relationship with our Lord and God.

Michigan Cornfield

This part is only for those who like being a part of “support projects”.

We will need to purchase/have purchased some of these items, this is to allow those whom love to be a part of projects an opportunity to be involved in our ministry.

Within the next month or so we will need to purchase; tires, 2-4 brakes and 2-4 rotors (we will know better one we do a maintenance check in less than a month). This is just a routine maintenance purchase and hopefully the last one for our car before we head over seas. ($300-400)

Also, in our traveling we came across some really good deals at an outlet. We will need to have these items for tribal living such as; rain jackets, hiking back packs, etc. and we found some of those items for literally half off! So we went ahead and purchased them. (2 back packs and 2 rain jackets =$291)

If you would like to be a part of any of these projects please contact us, thank you!