Meet the Sawade Family

February Update!

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Aaron and Jamithy
Austin (7)

Ethan (41/2)
Dan'Nijah (3)
Brayden (2 1/2)
Toriano (2)

? Sawade Baby #6 (August)

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We are so excited to share about God's goodness
as He continues to
teach us, correct us, train us and equip us to glorify His name.

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News from the Field:

Jason & Nisae Williamson serving in Papua New Guinea

Hello everyone,

Thank you so much for all your prayers for us and for all the encouraging emails and notes! We are so thankful to have such an encouraging team of people supporting us.

I (Jason) just got back from 5 days in the West Gimi tribe helping the missionaries there in the village of Kora to build their new house. The missionaries; Seong and Mina Mun and their national co-workers Balus and Inei are in the process of learning to speak a dialect of the Gimi language. When they finish, they will begin to translate lessons and begin to teach the people in their own language. They just returned from furlough to find their old house in “unrestorable” condition. Their new house is now nearly complete. During my time in there I was reminded of how lost these people really are and how different their animistic thinking is. The second day we were there a 17 year old boy died, he was only sick for two days. This came as a shock to the people. Their custom is that when a family member dies, to show real sadness, they must cut off one of their fingers. So the brother of the boy who died came up to us the day after with his finger in bandages. He had cut off his finger down to his knuckle to show the depth of his sorrow. The missionary there then took and mended it up as best as he could. It was really heartrending to see that without the hope of Jesus Christ the Kora people have no peace when someone dies. Because of their animistic beliefs, death is never caused from natural reasons or sickness, but rather from curses put on them from someone else. So after the boy died the people rubbed ash all over their faces and said that they were going to find the person that had put the curse on the boy. They then took some hair from the dead boy and put it on the end of a stick. One man held the stick and all the others with their bows and arrows followed behind. The hair was supposed to lead them to the boy’s killer.

1. Kora people watched us all day long as we put up the new house for Seong and Mina.

2. Putting ash all over their faces is a way to mourn the loss of someone.

3.Seong, trying to fix up this man’s finger.

Would you pray for the Kora people, that the Lord would prepare their hearts for the Bible lessons? Also pray for missionaries Seong and Mina Mun & Balus and Inei, that the Lord would give them strength and understanding while they continue to learn language.

House Building

We have recently set up a house building fund for ourselves. Our goal is to begin house building sometime later this year. We have begun planning and will need to begin purchasing materials for our house including wood, plumbing, electrical, furniture, appliances, etc. We currently have a washing machine and our solar electric system. Would you pray that the Lord would provide for our needs in this area? Our goal is about $20,000. Currently we have about $5,000. If you would like to help us with this need, please make a note on your gifts “Jason Williamson, house building” and send to NTM, 1000 E First St , Sanford , FL � 32771 .

We are privileged to serve with you. Keep praying for direction for our family. Soon we will be decided where to allocate and begin the house building process to live among a people group, learn their language, translate scriptures, teach Bible lessons, and ultimately see a church planted that will thrive and bring hope to generations to come. Thanks for being involved in making this happen!

Working together,

Jason & Nisae Williamson

Greetings from the Sawades!

Welcome to our website!

We use this site for two very good reasons.

First, to keep in touch with our ministry partners

and second to keep a journal

of all God is doing in our family's life.

Please feel free to visit often for new updates

or encourage us by droping us an email!

September Update!

Walking In Faith

We are so amazed by God's continued faithfulness in our lives! He has kept us here, in training, for over a year now! Isn't that exciting!

Our Home!
A little over a year an a half ago we decided that we wanted to take the next step... and sell our home. Which would enable us to move forward in training for missions. We planned to sell our home and have enough money to pay off the house and to pay all our tuition for Bible school. Well, we still have our house. God hasn't allowed it to sell and we are at rest with that. Through us not selling our home He has shown us His continued faithfulness and has grown our faith in who He is! We rejoice that we are in His will and can rest assured that He will take care of selling our home in His perfect timing!
At present our house is vacant and we are still paying a monthly mortgage. Please, continue to pray that God would provide additional finances to pay our school bill.

Brayden's Hearing!
Brayden just had another visit to the ear specialist on Thursday. Two test confirmed that he passed and CAN hear in both ears now! Praise God...!!! We also have been able to wean him off of his gas and acid reflux medications!!!!!

Hearing God's Word...
is life changing and we can both tell you that we will never be the same people we were before we came to this place. Sitting under God's Word has changed and challenged our every motive, thought & action in our daily walks.God has blessed us with some really awesome friends that just so happen to be our teachers (co-labors)! He continues to use them in our lives. We love to seek advice and answers to many of our questions from the insights of these people. We appreciate their ministry so much!

Ask us! We would love to share with you what we are learning!

Ethan
is loving childcare and is trying to complete full sentences. He loves to still do EVERYTHING his older brother does. His favorite thing to do is to pick up and play with ANY bug/insect he can find. Dead or alive! Its pretty crazy...the kid is fearful of a slip'n slide but not bugs/insects.
Every day we have our work cut out for us with how defiant and strong willed he can be. We are doing the best we can to be very consistent while trusting God for wisdom and strength.

Austin
is still our big helper! He loves to do crafts, cook, shower, play with bugs, play soccer and wrestle with dad and Ethan and do just about anything with his good friend Karter!
He is able to read 3 letter words now and is getting closer to being able telling time. However, I do need to teach the poor kid how to tie his shoelaces :) He is privileged ( paid for by Karter's parents) to be able to attend a homeschooling group, called Kidworks, all day every Monday. Him and Karter ride with our good friend and staff lady Michelle Hobbs an hour away to Grand Ledge, MI. There he learns things like... Music, Art, Spanish, Writing, History, Science and Gym! Wow...he loves it! Marilyn, my good friend and Karter's mother, still meets with the boys once a week to work on math, phonics and any other homework they have from kidworks. What a blessing and he's having a great time!

Boy's Health
Tis the season for once again sickness to run rampant here at school. Ethan was really sick for 5 days and has had to go back on a daily steroid for asthma. Brayden has a double ear infection,congestion, sneezing, coughing and a runny nose. Poor little guy.
He is being treated with antibiotics so we hope to see improvement real soon! Praying for our health is much appreciated!
Thanking the Lord for providing us with health insurance and perseverance through many sleepless nights!

Busy, busy busy!
Unfortunately, we are very busy and can't keep you posted much more than once a month. Aaron is looking forward to adding another post with some exciting things that God is teaching him and our family! Coming soon... so be watching for it!

Here is a picture of my good friend (sister) Valerie! She is an enormous help to us with the boys and some house chores and is a great encouragement to me! I asked you to pray for her this summer while she went to Brazil. She's back and has more passion than ever to reach the lost. Thank you for praying for her! Valerie is going on to Missouri to continue in the training. She is desiring to go to PNG and who knows, maybe God will have us both heading into the jungle together some day!

I also have another good friend named, Ciara who is preparing to go on in the training as well. Please pray for her as she continues to seek the Lord's wisdom and as she chooses which training facility to attend. Presently, she is looking to finish up the training in England.
Sorry, I wish I had a picture of her.

August Update-Roofing For Jesus!

Roofing For Jesus!




Hey! Sorry, its been so long since we've last updated our website. We have been so busy these last few weeks and havn't been able to update you with all God is doing!

We are thrilled and extremely humbled to see God's people partnering with us through the many prayers, physical labor and financial gifts we have received. It has been amazing to see not only our faith continue to grow, but the faith of those who give, and also the speechlessness of those who witness just how faithful our God really is.

The roofing project, on our house back home, was such a blessing from the Lord!
Aaron's grandparents generously loaned us enough funds to buy all the supplies needed to reroof the house.
God then supplied all the laborers. On Friday, a good friend of ours on staff here at NTBI (Steve Cretsinger), drove down to Toledo and was ready to work by 6:30AM. After a long day of hard work and sweat another good friend of ours, from our home church (Tim Alley), came to help and was such an encouragement. The following morning God brought an astonishing 16 men to our house to finish the project. With a ton of hard work and sweat the roof was completely done by 4:00PM! Talk about humbling someone...we've needed to get that roof done for eight years and God did it in one afternoon. It was so neat to see that God's timing was not then but now.

We want to say a special thank you to Phil Beemer, from our church here in Jackson, for taking our prayer requestst to the church body and spearheading the project. Thank you for all your hard work in organizing the group of men to come down.
We also want to thank Joe Groholske for donating nearly half of the shingles needed for the roof.
Also a special thanks to our good friend Bill Davenport, from our home church, for all his help in organizing the group of guys to come and help.
Thank you to Living Hope Church for helping to provide food for the guys.
Thank you to those of you who couldn't make it but were lifting us up in prayer.
Thank you to the many wives and children who sacrificed "time" with their husbands and fathers that day.

The project was a great testimony of teamwork!
We are so delighted that each and everyone of you are willing to do your part in
reaching the lost with Jesus Christ.