Benjamin and Missy Hatton Connecting You With Tribal Missions
Oath Ceremony 8/28/2009
August 28th marked a momentous occasion for us; Benjamin took the Oath of Citizenship at a swearing in ceremony in Detroit. There were over a thousand people in attendance that day with 950 immigrants finishing the naturalization process. The ceremony itself was straightforward without too much pomp and circumstance, but it was meaningful and very significant for us. Read the rest of this entry »
We have made a significant family decision to change our ministry focus from training future missionaries to church planting in Papua New Guinea. As we make this transition here are some of the questions we are considering and concerns we are trusting the Lord with. Here is how you can be specifically praying with us! Read the rest of this entry »
How many missionaries does it take to reach one unreached people group with the Gospel? This isn’t the makings of some lame joke! The vital nature of a support team is a concept that isn’t appealed to enough when mission work is being promoted. Too often the majority of attention is focused on what is happening on the ‘front lines’. In reality, however, the front line effort can never be separated from the support effort making it possible. Read the rest of this entry »
With a deep understanding of Scripture and 65 years of experience NTM has developed a unique and effective church planting approach for unreached people groups. This biblical approach is being applied today with great success. Tribal churches are now reaching beyond their own language boundaries to other unreached tribal people. Read the rest of this entry »
Benjamin and Missy Hatton have made a signifcant family decision. But this decision to move overseas from their present ministry with NTM in Michigan started a long time ago. Read some of the details of this story of God’s grace and faithfulness.
Out of the many people groups in the world today how would you identify an unreached people group? NTM has focused their vision on reaching new tribes with the Gospel message and planting indigenous churches among them. Along the way criteria has been developed to help identify “new tribes” where Christ has yet to be named. This criteria can be summed up in the following three characteristics. Read the rest of this entry »
It has been said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” We are beginning a journey of five thousand miles and more. Papua New Guinea is on the far side of the globe from where we live now in Michigan. Read the rest of this entry »
Thank you for continuing to pray for our family. The kids are all doing well. In this flu season they have all remained relatively healthy with only a brief harassment of pink eye that tormented Tiernan and Gianna. Judah was very thankful that he didn’t have to endure the eye drops like his siblings. Silas (31/2 Months) is growing and healthy and a delight to us all.
Judah has enjoyed and excelled at Kindergarten. Pray for us as we consider placing Gianna in Kindergarten this fall. The school is only going to offer full day Kindergarten this fall. We are seeking wisdom to know if this is the best thing for Gianna.
As many of you know we made the decision to change our ministry focus from stateside training to overseas church planting. It has been six months now since we made this decision and we are in the midst of transition between ministries.
Pray for us as we seek to continue to be 100% focused and available in our present ministry. Pray that we will use our time wisely as we invest in partnership development (fund raising and awareness). We are looking to the Lord to raise up an adequate group of supporters to see us sent off to PNG by early Fall 2010.
There are 2,500 unreached ethnic groups in the world today. What makes them unreached? There is no gospel witness available to them. How is this possible? There are not enough people willing and equipped to take the Gospel message to them. This hard message is what we are choosing to focus on as our theme at NTBI this Fall. Read the rest of this entry »
Another semester has come to a close and we are adjusting to our summer schedule. Goodbyes, family fun and hopefully some time in the sun will be our summer experience this year! Read the rest of this entry »
