Day 4,019

The 2022 Mission’s Conference

On Monday, I took just my little Ella Mae out to the farm again to help our friend. 

If I had to make a prediction about what this girl will be when she grows up, I’d tell you without hesitation that she’ll be a farmer’s wife. I’ve never met someone who loves the farm and all the animals quite like Kate. Bless her little heart!

In other news, the highlight of this week is our church’s annual Missions Conference. This year, we are enjoying the blessing of having several of our missionaries with Finisterre Vision here with us. The gentleman pictured above (wowing the kids with card tricks!) is currently on furlough and heading back to their village home in the mountains of Papau New Guinea in June. Him and his family of five have lived in the mountainous jungle village for the last 6 years, learning the language, writing the language, translating the Bible into their native language, and they’ve just recently been able to teach from the Bible about who Jesus is and the great hope contained in its pages in their own language. The team still has much work to be done there, as it is Finisterre Vision’s mission to establish local churches in the areas the missionaries are sent, instead of only bringing the gospel and leaving quickly after. 

From their website:

Once in Papua New Guinea, the goal for each missionary team is to survey and select a tribe, learn its language and culture, and develop an alphabet. The tribe is taught to be literate in their language with the aim of being receiving the gospel message taught chronologically through the Bible–from Genesis to Revelation.

A translation of the Bible in their language follows as those who believe Jesus Christ are gathered into a fledgling church. In time, as the church is established and qualified elder leadership is raised up, the missionaries begin to phase out and the indigenous church takes over the Great Commission to the tribes around them.

Our church has partnered with this ministry for the last several years and as of the close of this conference, we’ll be sending our first CBC family—some of our dearest friends—to Madang, Papau New Guinea to serve as missionaries very soon. Our week has already been so full, so convicting, and so sweet. We are thankful for our church’s heart toward the pursuit of the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20 

18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."  (Matthew 28:18, NASB)