NTM

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Thank you for the ways you have encouraged and helped us through the past few months!  We really appreciate your prayers and encouraging words as well as your financial involvement in our ministry.  We are often so anxious just to “get to the field” and then we are reminded that the mission field for all of us is wherever God has us.  We are enjoying the opportunity to do Partnership Development in Montana and share about God’s work  in New Guinea even though the timeline of our departure has not been what we expected.  God is GOOD!

HEALTH UPDATE

Another thing we didn’t expect was to have so many health issues in our family this year.  Many times this year we have prayed for Zowee and Noelle’s health and we have always seen God answer our prayers with strength, guidance, and insight into their health problems.  The Lord has revealed one piece of the puzzle at a time.  Zowee is doing better every day now that we have taken 12+ foods out of her diet that she was allergic/sensitive to!  There are still many obstacles that we face with her because keeping the diet is very difficult, and her reactions last 8-12 days.  Noelle is who we are focusing on now and trying to get more answers for.  She is technically failure to thrive now because of her weight being so low.  She has been at doctor’s offices quite a bit lately and I spend most of my free time reading health books and websites.  We are excited to try a new “Specific Carbohydrate” diet in the coming weeks, so please be praying for Noelle to respond well to it and GROW!

PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND TRAVEL UPDATE

We are so excited to announce that we are at 70% of our financial goal as of this week! Thank you everyone who is praying and giving!  We are lacking about $1300 A MONTH in support which is quite significant.  Through a serious of events and decisions we have decided to go on another Partnership Development trip.  Our plan right now is to leave in the beginning of October and go to the following areas:

Denver, CO

Camdenton, MO

Nashville, TN

Atlanta, GA

Orlando, FL

Charleston, SC

Richmond, VA

Pittsburg, PA

Grand Rapids, MI

Waukesha, WI

And possibly Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, and North Dakota before returning to good old MONTANA! Sound Crazy?  It is, but we are up for it because we see the Lord directing this.  We believe that He wants to provide for us to go to PNG and possibly this will be our last push of support raising.  Please pray that it is!   If you are in any of these areas and would like to get together and hear more about our work with NTM, please write back and let us know.  THANKS!

Here are our recent prayer requests

1. Praise God for providing 70% of our monthly support!  We are trusting God to raise the rest of the support before we purchase our plane tickets.

2. Pray that we will be sensitive to God’s Spirit and used to impact people’s lives for eternity. He is giving us many opportunities to minister to people as we travel and share about God’s work in Papua New Guinea.

3. Pray specifically for discernment with Noelle’s health and for healing.  We have 4 doctors working on various tests to determine why she is not growing and what foods she is allergic to.  Praise the Lord these doctors are taking her condition seriously, but they are all conflicting in their ideas of how to help! L Pray that our elimination diet will show us clearly what is bothering her.

4. Our new projected month of departure is January!  Pray that our health issues will be resolved and our monthly support will completely come in by November so that we can plan accordingly!  If we don’t leave for PNG by January, we will have to wait 6 more months because of government regulations in 2010!

Thank you for interceding for our family!     In Christ, Kevin and Carolyn Johnson