Field Fair 2009

On Thursday and Friday, twelve NTM workers appeared at MTC from far corners of the earth. Their purpose was to share with us the vision of their respective fields and the types of jobs they need people to fill. This exciting event, known as "Field Fair", is held once every semester to inform students and help students decide what field to serve on.

We enjoyed listening to and interacting with representatives from each field. Jevon had several opportunities to speak with the representatives from Brazil. Because Brazil is such a large country (the size of the continental United States plus Texas two more times), NTM considers it two fields: east and west. (Jevon grew up in the west, in the Amazon region.) We were sobered to hear that if 30 "units" (husband/wife teams or teams of 2 singles) went immediately to the field of West Brazil, that would only fill the needs of existing NTM works in order to finish the job well. Many more are needed to reach the 90 indigenous people groups in Brazil that have yet to hear God's Message in their own language.

As we consider these statistics, we are all the more determined to stay on course toward Brazil, unless God redirects us. While many students here hope to pioneer new works, it seems right to Jevon and I to make ourselves available to join an existing work in order to see that the that indigenous churches are brought to maturity. Our vision is to see these mature, indigenous churches teaching and leading their own people, as well as reaching out to neighboring, unreached people groups. We still would like to join Jevon's parents in West Brazil, but are totally open if NTM leadership feels it would be more strategic to place us elsewhere.

We are glad that you have sent us here to be trained, and we look forward to partnering together with you to reach the corners of the earth.

Love,

Jevon and Danica