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The story about the Kodiak Kids has been touching hearts and prompting others to join in the effort to provide planes for missionaries.

One couple heard about the third grade class from Heritage Christian School in Indianapolis when they attended the Indy 500 race. While the husband was in an early morning meeting, the wife went to the hotel restaurant to eat breakfast. As she was reading the newspaper she saw an article about the Kodiak Kids.

"I knew this was it. This was for us!" she thought.

The husband read the article on the flight home. Shortly thereafter he got an e-mail from a friend telling him about the Kodiak project at Quest Aircraft in Sandpoint, Idaho. It confirmed what the couple was thinking.

"We were pretty sure of what we were being called to do," the wife wrote.

The couple traveled to Sandpoint and after finding out more about the project they donated more than one million dollars to make deposits on three more planes for New Tribes Mission.

Deposits have now been made on ten of the 14 Kodiaks that NTM Aviation wants to add to its fleet.

In anticipation of the first delivery, NTM Aviation is expanding hangars in Arizona and overseas to accommodate the Kodiak.

Praise God for what he is doing, and pray for His provision for four more planes.

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Currently the Landumas are listening to evangelistic Bible lessons on cassette tapes, but missionaries are looking to have new technology in place soon.

Missionary Kirk Rogers researched several possibilities but found most of the MP3 players to be too expensive, too difficult for non-English speakers to operate and without built in speakers.

The team of missionaries can only teach in a few of the more than 300 Landuma villages. They believe MP3 players will be more effective to spread the Gospel to those Landumas living in far-away villages.

Usman, Kirk’s former culture and language helper, moved away to a village too distant for him to attend the regular teaching. But he listened to the audio evangelistic Bible lessons and trusted Christ.

The missionaries have wanted to use better technology for the lessons. The MegaVoice Company has worked ten years to develop a computer memory chip-based player that would be rugged enough and user friendly enough for non-literate people groups around the world.

This technology is now available at an affordable price. The unit has a built-in speaker, is easy to operate and holds up to 80 hours of audio messages. The Ambassador as it is called fits every specification the missionaries have.

The missionary team would like to put several evangelistic lessons as well as Scripture readings on each player and loan them to the Landumas. They would like to purchase 100 players and ship them to Guinea by January 2007. This would enable several distant villages to hear God’s Word.

Pray that the missionaries will be able to purchase these practical audio players so that more Landumas can hear God’s Word.

Not only were our hearts encouraged at the McConkey/Johnston client conference in Colorado Springs, but we also came away with tools to help us be more effective in the Stewardship Development Office.

Each year at their annual client conference McConkey/Johnston gives out 3 awards.

This year Paul was humbled and honored to receive the M/J 2006 Integrity Award.