In His Steps: Please, Pray for our good friends the Herdters

Hello to all our friends,

We'd like to share some news!

Emme (pron. Emmy) Grace was born Sunday, July 16 at 6:32 pm! She was 8lb. 5oz. and 21 1/2 in. long. We have had a wirlwind of a week of wonderful joys and sobering scares. A cleft pallet was discovered in the back of Emme's mouth on Monday. Since then we've been finding out that this is a very common
birth deffect and that it is easily corrected with surgery by their first birthday. There may be other difficulties along the way with speech or hearing. Right now though, she is struggling with spitting up and choking, sometimes to the point of not breathing. We don't know if this is related to the cleft pallet. This has been the most trying and scary of all. We have had to take shifts and never let her out of our sight night or day. We thank God for allowing us to catch every episode of choking so far. Beth's mom is staying here right now for which we are truly thankful. Please pray that we will discover why Emme is choking and that as she gains strength, she will be able to cough and work these out herself. We are so thankful for our new little girl and are trusting in God's loving hands and wise bestowment.

In His care,

Garrett, Beth, Gabe, and Emme

Why Tribal Missions?

So why are we willing to go and live in the middle of nowhere for years, far removed from our families, even from civilization?

Because we’re convinced that God desires every people group on earth to have the opportunity to know Him. He has provided one way for that to happen: by believing that His Son, Jesus Christ, died on the cross to pay the penalty of our sins. Nothing apart from that makes us acceptable to God. We know that without someone like us going to these remote people groups, the message of Christ’s death will never be heard.

Matthew 28:19-20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit , teaching them to observe all that I commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Romans 10:14 "How then shall they call upon Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?”

We desire to be a part of the NTM tribal church planting endeavor there. 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 take part in planting an indigenous church among one of PNG’s isolated tribes.

We strongly believe that God’s desire is for all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. We hope to be used of God to make Him known in Papua New Guinea.

In His Steps

Please, Pray for our good friends the Herdters

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