Dear Prayer Partners,
How will the indigenous people in remote areas of the world hear the Good News of Jesus Christ?
We are missionaries in training at New Tribes Bible Institute (NTBI) and New Tribes Mission (NTM), whose focus is on reaching unreached people groups throughout the world. We have two sons, Austin (4) and Ethan (1-1/2), and a baby on the way (due June 27th). We have been married for 7 years. Jamithy has had a passion for missions since she was a teen, while Aaron felt the calling about one year ago. Upon the requests of our friends, the Williamsons (New Tribes missionaries to Papua New Guinea), we looked into New Tribes for our training. After visiting, we quickly recognized that we needed Bible & cultural training before we could be useful in a foreign field.
We have chosen to be fully devoted to God’s plan for our lives. Aaron believes the Lord has blessed him with construction abilities that will be useful in fulltime ministry work. We plan to work in a support role as construction specialists, building missionary homes, schools and churches and assisting the missionaries in the tribes, any way we can.
We are currently attending NTBI, the first phase of the training, which will finish in May of 2007. God has brought us to Jackson, Michigan and shown us how important and severe the need is for laborers in the hard to reach areas of the world. Our training will continue in Missouri with another two years at the Language and Culture Institute. After our training is complete, we will have about one year to finish raising our support and finalize our preparations to leave the country and begin our ministry abroad. At this time we are leaning toward ministering in Papua New Guinea.
There is an enormous need for people to go and be willing to fill support roles for missionary families in the tribe. At this time there are many tribal missionaries who have been pulled out or held back because of a lack of support missionaries to assist them. These families need supplies ordered and brought in, homes, schools and churches built, health services, school teachers for their children, repairs and maintenance, and there are many more areas of need. The truth is that there are very few that are willing to go; please continue to pray with us that God will send more workers to harvest His field.
By fulfilling the support role the missionary can be free to go into one of more than 4,000 unreached people groups throughout the world. These people represent most of the world’s population, who have yet to hear the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Isolated tribal groups with no roads to the outside world seem to be totally forgotten. But Christ died for them too, they just need someone to go and tell them. Incredibly, Papua New Guinea has a total of over 850 languages. Of those languages, 700 have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ and 500 of those languages don’t even have a chance to hear because they lack the Word of God in their own mother tongue.
We hope by God’s grace, to cooperate with the tribal church planters in their endeavors to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to these people.
We are so excited to continue growing in God’s Word and remain here in training. We have found our faith has grown by leaps and bounds as a result of the many trials and tribulations we have faced financially. We have been faithfully praying that the Lord would supply Aaron with employment or choose to meet our needs through other means. Currently, we have a need of $1400. This would enable us to faithfully continue this work we have set out to do. We also have a need of another $1750, due January 5, 2006, for the down payment for next semester. Our monthly needed living expenses and tuition payments during our time in training are $1500 per month.
We would greatly appreciate your prayers. Thank you for considering partnering in our ministry and may God bless you and your church family.
Only by His grace,
Aaron & Jamithy Sawade
P.S. We look forward to visiting you soon. If you have any question please email sawades4christ@yahoo.com or call (517)796-5401. If you would like to read our latest newsletter: www.livinghopetoledo.org/missions.asp
