John and Margaret Birkemo Expanding the Reach of the Gospel 
"East or west….." has been a favorite saying in our family for many years. Now we are moving our home from the east (well, Missouri) to the great Sonoran desert near Phoenix, AZ. The Lord enabled us to purchase a small home in Fountain Hills quite near to Scottsdale where our daughter Kriya and family live.
We’ll be continuing our ministry of Partnership Development ,for the Missionary Training Center, in the Phoenix area. The Lord has already given us some great contacts and we’ve joined a terrific church. We also hope to enhance the awareness of what NTM is and does in the minds of believers there.
Being close to our daughter’s family will allow us to invest our lives in theirs, especially those of our grand children, Ryan (10) and Holly (8.) We look forward to spending quality time with them.
God is so good to provide us, not only with a new area in which to minister, but a home which we never expected to be able to have. Please pray for us as we adjust to life and service in the desert.
