John and Sandi Hagen Connecting you with tribal missions 
Today, August 18th, marked the beginning of another year of training missionary candidates!
454 total campus residents
- 137 staff – teachers, maintenance, administrative, etc.
- 159 students
- 154 children
As Registrar, I personally get to correspond with each and every new face coming to the Missionary Training Center. E-mail has revolutionized my job, but with that easy form of communicating, also comes challenges.
One of the incoming students kept after me for "stuff." Whether it was a template, a photo, a video, an article, there was always "one more thing" that he was looking for (and asking for in a very gracious way!). One day it hit me that my attitude towards this guy wasn’t very godly. I was getting frustrated by him, but in reality the Lord was using him to show me my lack of passion in not only reaching the lost, but in my ministry. Here was a new candidate who just wanted to share the work of New Tribes Mission and just wanted to share his enthusiasm with others. Boy, do I have a lot to learn from him!!!!! My attitude changed and I’m looking forward to meeting this young man and seeing what he has to teach me!
Pray as we start the new semester and interact with each other. It gets pretty hectic at times and we all live, work and study in close proxemity to each other. Each of us come from various backgrounds and countries each with it’s unique style and flavor.
Pray for each of the candidates that they would take full advantage of their time at the Missionary Training Center.
