John and Kay Abbott, Jr. Equipping Missionaries for Tribal Church Planting
A new mural for culture class is almost done. I’ve been working on the painting for a month or so, but still have some detail work left. John and some of the other instructors have set up some hut fronts and porches to sit on while teaching culture class, and there is a false back behind the huts so we can do “culture event skits”, coming in and out of the ”doors.”
If you’d like to see more pictures about the new mural, CLICK HERE.
Please pray for two new painting projects I need to do this summer: One is for church VBS, and one is a background scene to use in the Culture course. I would appreciate your prayers that I do a good job on both.
For the past two years, the youth group has had a themed banquet, put on by the staff and non-seniors. I always enjoy helping out by painting some murals as part of the scenery.
The theme for this year’s teen banquet was the far east…. With some help from John and Luke, we constructed a 3D moongate and a pagoda. Luke also worked on an animated fountain to be shown on a large screen, and John made some wooden swords.
For the most part we kept the theme a secret from the seniors, though I think they had a pretty good idea by the time the banquet actually came around.
Everything was very beautiful, and the food, eaten by chopsticks, great as well.
Click here to check out the pictures of our murals, swords, and other interesting scenes.
I remember the first time I fell in love with art. It was Christmas Eve, and I had just opened a present. The present was a sketchbook from my parents! I was 11 years old. That night I stayed up until 4 in the morning, drawing masterpieces in that book (I still have that book with those pictures…if you want to see them, click here! They are a bit hilarious to me now!).
When I became a senior in High School and had to decide what to do with my life, art seemed the obvious choice. I entered a local college art scholarship contest and won. However, God had other plans. Instead of going to art college, I went to New Tribes Bible Institute where God challenged me into missions.
Did that mean the end to my art? Nope. Not even close! Over the years, my love of art has continued, and even though it is self-taught, I have fun contributing to the many projects that show up on my doorstep!
The project I am painting is a small mural on each side of the door that leds into NTM’s TECH CENTER.
BEFORE
The Tech Center is quite a place! Their goal is to train missionaries to manage the physical aspects of living in remote locations. That means learning about water filtration, lightning protection, solar panels, and hydrodynamics. You can imagine how difficult it would be to figure all this out on your own. Often the Tech Center custom designs and assembles the equipment used in these unique living conditions. And if a missionary has technical problems, the Tech Center gives advice. I’m sure their email box is full everyday from questions around the world!
Click here to see how my artwork progressed and view other art projects of mine…
FINISHED
