Patrick and Candice Cheah En-route to Indonesia 
Dear family, friends and prayer partners,
"Gong Xi Fa Cai" to all who are celebrating the Lunar New Year! For us, the year of the rat was ushered in with a "bang", right here in America! We were in Chinatown in Oklahoma City among the Asian community to welcome the New Year with strings of exploding fire crackers strung across business houses. Not to be left out were the traditional "lion dance" troupes and loud clanging of cymbals and booming Chinese drums to complete the mood like in any Asian city.
We were on our way to Wichita in Kansas for a mission conference and were invited to detour to Oklahoma City some two and a half hours away to join in the celebration. Our hosts were the family members of Kevin and Michelle Gallagher, one of our home church’s earliest members in Penang, Malaysia. A sumptuous Chinese dinner prepared by our host complete the tradition for a good time of fellowship, blessing and bringing glory to God.
The next day we set off for Wichita. It was a great experience for us as the host church of 700 members has gone to great length to organize this mission event. The auditorium was turned into an airport terminal with "passengers" consisting of church members and visitors were directed to different boarding gateways which represented different mission fields. We represented the mission field of Papua New Guinea. Groups of visitors who came to our "mission field" were challenged to send missionaries to bring "God’s talk" at the request of the tribes. There are still large numbers of tribes and language groups who has yet to hear the gospel and the visitors were challenged to play their part to complete this task of the Great Commission.
Future Missionaries
NTM Missionary Training Center (MTC) youths led by their Youth Director are planning a mission trip to Brazil this summer for three weeks. Natalie, our daughter, is part of this team who is preparing to be a blessing and to minister to the young Kaapor believers in the Ximbu Rende village in Brazil. Please pray with us that the Kaapor believers will not see the team as just "foreign do-gooders" or tourists but as brothers and sisters in Christ working for the common goal of edifying and building the body of Christ. Also pray for the team’s planning and preparation and also the finances that are needed to meet the costs of the trip.
Life at MTC
We are now into the module of Missionary Technology. In preparation for the mission field, we, missionary candidates, are required to be equipped with the basics of solar and other alternative forms of energy, water filtration and basic indoor plumbing. This is to make life and ministry in a field setting more efficient.
