Fato's Story // New Tribes Mission

This is the story of a believer from a PNG tribe its an interesting watch.

A few photos of the McNabb family

Baby Grace

She’s Here!

Wow – God’s answer to your prayers was that the doctor didn’t even have to make a decision about the growth scan on Monday!  My waters broke before it was even time for the scan – and because she was positioned wrong, the decision was made to deliver her later that evening.

Grace McNabb

4lb 11oz, 18.3 in

January 5, 2015

Sitting in our tent starting another week of mission simulation, we are now into our fourth week and my wife seems to be speaking in tongues a lot J well Russian.

We are living in large Army tents so they are quite spacious. We have a kitchen, a small living room, and a very small bedroom, so it does have some comfort plus the Lord has given us some good weather although we are experiencing some strong winds at the minute which can make you think the tents will fly away!  Thankfully they are firmly anchored with some pretty solid stakes. This makes me think about something I shared today from Psalm 1. Maybe you know the chapter - it speaks of a tree with its roots firmly planted by a river. The river will sustain the tree and make it strong. We too need to have our roots in the living waters of God and His Word so we can be strengthened for the life He has for us to live.

I (Geoff) am still working on the grounds so I just live in the tent whereas Dar Gail is learning Russian in the mornings and working in the office in the afternoon.  So we are both pretty tired by the end of the day.  One of the reasons being that we have to carry all our water for washing, drinking and cooking, then walk back with all the waste water to a specific location, which may not sound like much but it gets boring quickly J.

We don’t have internet access out here so communication is limited to one day a week and a supply run for fresh food once a week. Why, you may ask, do we have to do all this?  Well, as we are living in England it is quite hard to simulate life in the jungle, and as most of you know this world has become very small with the use of the internet even reaching many jungle tribes!  But the idea of Mission Sim is to try in some small way to make life a bit harder to simulate life in a tribal situation.  Another side is the language learning. Again this is just simulating what it is like on the field, putting into practice what we have learnt over the past year about language learning for an unwritten language.  (When I say we, I mean the rest of the class and Dar Gail - I don’t have to do the language stuff again, for which I am very grateful!)

Our cottage is a massive praise. For a long time it has sat with no work done but over the past month or so we have had a lot of work done on it thanks to a lot of people including some of the Friends in Action Team from NI!  We have gotten all the plastering completed, the first coat of paint on all the walls the kitchen floor tiled, interior doors replaced, Cronus in place and sills ready to be put in. By the time we leave mission sim we hope to have most of the wood work done and ready to paint. The kitchen still is needing fitted and the bath room and plumbing still to do.  But I want to thank God for getting it as far as it is now!

Thank you all for your continued prayers and support over our time here. For our American friends we will be visiting the U.S. for the month of December so if you would like to hear more about our work here please let us know, we would love to share with you Gods work with NTM and with us.

McNabb Update

first impressions of my new wife!

I find myself in a strange but beautiful country, where the cars drive on the wrong side of the road, and the drivers are on the wrong side of the car...where even the yield signs look different, and stop signs are replaced with round-about's.  The people have been friendly and helpful, but the language, while using mostly the same words, is more lyrical, and sometimes hard to follow, especially when the conversation is going full-tilt.  The talk centers more around tennis than football, and I find myself quite in the dark when it comes to Wimbelton, but I nod and smile and enjoy the friendly banter around me.  The shops are smaller here and the money is quite colorful, while the buildings are more gray, although by no means uninteresting or lacking in character.  Rather, the architecture is remarkable, with buildings often made of stone and wood, accented by spires and turrets and wrought iron gates.  And the flowers are beautiful - bursting color into the towns and decorating the lawns of cottages, flowing from window boxes and hanging baskets.  The rainy summer, apparently unusually so, has created a deep green landscape, befitting the title of "The Emerald Isle."  I find it at once intriguing and exciting, yet a bit overwhelming and strange.  I've a good bit of growing to do, but am content that God has brought me here and will continue to lead me on.

My heart has been warmed by the loving embrace of Geoffrey's family and my belly has been filled to bursting with the wonderful cooking and abundant sweets.  I am so happy to be a part of this family whose home is filled with laughter and children's squeals of delight, who tease each other mercilessly, but love each other fiercely as well.  I am so grateful God has seen fit to plant me here.

travels

Hello, friends!

God has been so faithful this past week as we packed up our house - who knew that it could be so much work to pack up a tiny little home?  But we are mostly there - having divided things into save and store, get rid of, and pack to take...all the while trying to keep in mind the size restrictions for our luggage and trying to limit our storage.  Whew!  It has been rather exhausting!

Some praises we would like to share with you:

- Our time here in the US has been so wonderful - and Geoff and the Marshall family feel equally blessed to have each other! :-)

- Our visa paperwork has all been worked out, Dar Gail's in a miraculously short time!

- God provided a renter for our home!

- We are nearly all packed and ready to go - with suitcases packed to the exact amount (thanks to Geoff's handi-dandi hanger scale! :-))

Over the next two days we will be saying our goodbyes to friends and family here in Florida.  Please pray for us!  Then we set off to Wisconsin for a few days to visit some of Dar Gail's family there before leaving for the UK after more goodbye's.  Then the hello's begin - With a month in N. Ireland/Ireland for Dar Gail to get some time with Geoff's family and friends, and then on to England where we'll be spending the majority of the next year with Dar Gail in school.  We have quite the adventure ahead of us!

Please pray for us:

- Goodbye's

- Comfort for Friends and Family left behind

- No trouble with our luggage (pray they don't hassle us regarding the weight!!!)

- Safety in our travels

- Sale of Geoff's truck and Dar Gail's car (and for Dar Gail not to stress as God has this under control!)

- Adjustments for Dar Gail in a new country

Thank-you all so much for standing with us in this time.  God has been so good to us and we are excited about what He has ahead, but at the same time know that often that involves sacrifice.  Pray that we will willingly and joyfully go where He calls!

Blessings to you all,

Geoff & Dar Gail