PASSING THE TORCH
February 22, 2007
by Dave Meyers
The Pawaian believers handed missionaries Jack and Isa Douglas a big bamboo torch and sent them off along the trail in the jungle of Papua New Guinea.
There, they had to find people hidden along the sides of the trail, and bring them to the light.
It wasn't a game. It was a celebration.
"We had been the ones to bring the light of God's Word to the people so they could come out of the darkness," Isa wrote. "We then handed the torch back to the people to signify that they are now responsible to carry the torch to others."
Planting a church among people who have lived in darkness is a long-term and complicated task. Jack and Isa, like all NTM missionaries, received specialized training that helped them with each step.
Each year, with the input of experienced missionaries like Jack and Isa, that training gets better. The need to keep improving the training, and make it available to more people so more tribes can hear, are why NTM is expanding its Missionary Training Center.
Thank you for praying and giving! You are helping expand the reach of the Gospel.
- Missionaries are reviewing, adjusting and improving the first-year training center curriculum, as well as developing the curriculum for the second year of the two-year course. Pray for God's wisdom and leading so future missionaries are properly prepared.
- Praise God for providing, each step of the way, for construction on the campus. The work of volunteers has stretched the funds, and it often seems the money is running out, but it never does, thanks to God's provision through His people.
- Pray especially that more new housing can be built. Right now there are more applicants for Fall 2007 than there is housing.
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