Made it to Frankfurt and what a hassle. The duffel bag with all the German calendars, video and books I was carrying came off the airline baggage ramp with pools of blueberry shampoo all over it. Terrible. Continental Airlines ladies helped me try and scrub it off with rolls of TP, but the scrubbing just caused suds, foam and now sweat pouring off our brows and elsewhere.
That is when one of them noticed the whole button of the duffle bag – the integral part with wheels – was ripped and stuff ready to come out.
Real men are not suppose to smell like blueberries.
Yuk, And I was still facing a train trip into Frankfurt and then a few blocks walk dragging it down the street to the hotel. Doing this with three bags is a circus act.
Real men are not suppose to smell like sweaty blueberries.
Tomorrow I repeat the whole process – back to the train station and then to my final destination somewhere in Germany. When I bought my train ticket they told me that I have to make two transfers including multitask racing in order to make my connecting trains. Bummer! I paid extra for Wagen and Platz so whatever that is makes me feel better already. Everything seems so German here.
Men who smell like sweaty blueberries should not be running across tracks dragging ripped luggage.
Macon is off to Germany for a conference with the European partner countries . Pray for safe travel, good fellowship and that God will use this time to refresh and energize the leaders who are meeting in November. That God will raise up more co-workers from Europe to take the gospel to tribal people.
Pray for wisdom on the next video projects Macon should undertake. Pray for effective leadership and for talented additions to the NTM Communications team.
Katy travels to Ohio while Macon is in Germany, to visit her mother. Pray for safe travel and good flights as she travels stand-by. Pray for great fellowship with friends and family members; for good health; and meaningful relationships.
Family:
Jeremy and Judy Hare are well and settled into life in Guam. Praise they found a great church and are making good friends. Natania began home school, piano lessons and golf lessons. Thalia is now excited to go into Sunday School alone, and she and Natania attend Pioneer’s Girls Club.
Daryl and Aleyda Young keep very busy with life and work in South Carolina. Aly began her 3rd year of teaching and is doing well.
Vinny and Jessica Sergio stay busy with school and work. Jessica graduates in December in Massage Therapy. She will take the State Board exam in January. Pray she will have no difficulty in the licensing process. She is hoping to continue Advanced study to get her degree in 2010. Connie is enjoying pre-K and is now enrolled in dance class. She makes a very cute ballerina.
“He did it! I’m privileged to be a vessel God used, but He gets the glory!” Lisa Kappeler praised. Yes, God is at work among the Uriai.
The village was abuzz with excitement and anticipation. Seven months of diligent teaching, amidst interruptions, arguments and jesting, cumulated in 20 grinning students who stood proudly to receive their literacy certificates. They are the first in their line of descendents to read their own language!
Impulsively hugged by the shyest student, praised in public by the village leader, Lisa Read the rest of this entry »
There is an age long forgotten story, when obedient Christians packed up their worldly belongings into a pine casket and sailed the oceans to a distant land. Before its ultimate use, the constantly visible casket served as a daily seal of the missionaries’ commitment to take up Jesus’ cross among the poor and the lost.
Before their ships would sail, these Christian servants would scribble with tears and ink, their own last letters. These letters were penned in Bibles and on weathered parchment in a desperate attempt to explain their divine compulsion to give up everything and everyone to serve the lost and the hurting. At her final farewell, surrounded by parents and siblings, a twenty-year-old single lady would hand her father her last letter, she would tearfully embrace, board the ship and sail off never to return.
“Amazing! In a group of 700 college students, you could hear a pin drop.
We showed “AWAYO” at our Reality Conference and you could have heard a pin drop. I asked a student last night what she thought of your video and that was her response. You didn’t hear anyone talking for a full five minutes afterwards. Your video shook them with the reality of the lost people of the world. Our speaker who spoke right after your video was at a loss for words. All he could say was “Wow!”
Bob Walz
The Navigators
In the remote corners of the world, people groups have existed for generations.
They live in fear of the spirits.
They die without hope.
This is Awayo’s story.
Have you ever thought about the spiritual battles that missionaries face when ministering in primitive locations to tribal people groups? Or, even the threat of physical harm?
Spiritual battles and physical harm were no strangers to itinerant missionary Sophie Mueller in the 1950’s as she traveled from village to village nestled along the banks of the tributaries in the upper Amazon River basin. Sophie would arrive in a village and tell the people that she was sent from the God of Creation to teach them the way to heaven. Some listened but many were skeptical.
One such man thought, ‘Well, if Sophie really was sent here by God, then she will not die if I feed her poison.’ Wanting to make sure his ‘test’ was certain to be ‘supernatural’ he put enough poison into her food to kill 5 men! Read the rest of this entry »
Macon and Katy Hare Your Connection to Tribal Ministries 
