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"For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake." ~ 2 Corinthians 4:5

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We arrived in Madang, Papua New Guinea on December 31, 2006 to be involved in tribal church planting in Papua New Guinea. By the Grace of God, we hope to take the Gospel to one of Papua New Guinea's 863 language groups. New Tribes Mission works to reach the language groups that are in more remote settings, isolated from the westernized world in most cases. In order to be able to communicate clearly the message of the Gospel of grace, we would move into a remote location in order to build relationships with the people, learn their culture and heart language (the language they laugh and cry in), so that we can teach literacy, translate the Scriptures, and teach chronologically through the Word of God with a long term goal of seeing a biblical model of a New Testament Church born and raised up to maturity and discipled to continue on its own with the aid of the Holy Spirit.

Our desire is to live the message of the Gospel through our actions before we can teach it with our words. Christ said that it is by our love that others will know that we are His disciples. The way we live our lives before their eyes - in any situation, whether stateside or abroad - validates the message that we are desiring to teach with our Words.

Do they see love? Do they see unity? The way we interact with eachother and our children needs to exemplify how a Christ-centered family should function. This will be very different from their culture. The way we work with our teammates should demonstrate unity, brotherly love, and an overall concern for one-another. This is our hearts desire. We appreciate your prayers!

"Time Sensitive Material Enclosed", is what the envelope had stamped across the front of it. As you would expect this was a trick just to get me to open my junk mail before I opened the other mail. It didn't work, but it did get me thinking.

As believers we have Time Sensitive Material: the Gospel of the birth, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ- Our Living God who became man in order that He may become our perfect sacrificial lamb and shed His blood for all of our sins.

It is time sensitive in the fact that nobody is guaranteed tomorrow. We have the key to ETERNAL life. Are we really treating it as if it is time sensitive or have we taken it for granted? This was a reality check for me. There have been many times I've used junk mail to start fires, but I never would have thought that God would use a piece of junk mail to re-kindle the fire under me to take His message to those in Papua New Guinea.

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