MESSENGER - Evangelical Mennonite Conference

with our missionaries
68 students
graduate from
NTBI
WISCONSIN
We are happy to let you know that
68 students graduated on May
21, 2011, from New Tribes Bible
Institute.
This class was special to our
family because we began here on
staff at the same time as these students
arrived. We feel like we have
grown with them in many ways, and
it is sad to see them go.
The good news is that 58 percent
of them have decided to continue
on in serving the Lord in missions;
and better yet, they have grown in
their walk with the Lord and their
dependence on Him. This is the
whole reason why our family is so
motivated to live here among the
students, building relationships
with them and walking alongside
them.
Learning the
value of saying
farewell
SOUTH AFRICA/CANADA
“Brethren, join in following my
example, and note those who so
walk, as you have us for a pattern”
(Philippians 3:17).
We’ve been consumed with
20 THE MESSENGER | July 2011
Sixty-eight students graduated from New Tribes
Bible Institute on May 21, 2011.
Many of these students are
headed out around the world to
take the gospel to people who have
never had the chance to hear it.
Thank you for your involvement in
the amazing work the Lord is doing
around the world.
Dave Field
Dave and Kim Field (Steinbach
EMC) serve at the New Tribes Bible
Institute in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
farewells, packing, selling and all Farewells are not merely celebra-
that concerns ending a missionary tions for those who are leaving.
career abroad. In planning our Nice memories spoken by friends
goodbyes we were advised by wise to friends and heroes who leave
folks to give opportunity to our define what they are on the way to
friends to say their farewells to us. becoming. Such memories become
Our modest western minds do scaffolds from which character is
not consider how important it is to built.
say farewells. Besides, we don’t want We counted 71 churches that we
to be disappointed, should such served in Zululand alone; some were
farewells be less than expected. (continued p. 21)
PHOTO COURTESY DAVE FIELD