We Have New Missionaries!
Hallelujah for an answer to a four- year prayer! Click here to go to the post and to read more.
Hallelujah for an answer to prayer we have been praying about for four years! God just threw us a lifeline in our desire to hold on in the work here in Mexico. At times it is exhausting to keep up with the work here when there is so much more to do than we have time and energy to do. God’s lifeline is in the form of new missionaries. We are excited to be able to announce that we have new missionary candidates. Kirk and Lisa Bokenkamp were approved by the board to become our newest missionaries. Kirk is an elder in his church while working on his MDiv degree in seminary. Lisa leads the homeschooling of their six well-behaved, God-focused children, while reaching out to neighbors and a group of Mexicans from Oaxaca they befriended at a local restaurant.
We joyously hosted the Bokenkamps here in El Papalote in early March as part of the early interaction which led to their application to the mission. We enthusiastically support their call to the Baja as missionaries. Kirk is a hospital nurse and Lisa a musician. They became believers about two years into their marriage before the birth of their now fifteen-year-old first-born. They exude a love for spreading the gospel and have a special desire to see Mexico’s indigenous evangelized.
Each of the current NLM missionaries are senior citizens. Our youngest field missionaries are 75-year-olds, so something needs to happen to include younger blood if Northern Light Ministries is to have a future. Kirk and Lisa seem so well situated to bridge to the generations ahead.
Perhaps it is time for you to hold the lifeline through your praying for them. Rejoice with us for this new missionary couple and pray for them that they will form good partnerships with prayer warriors and financial supporters. Please go to the link below and watch the video we asked them to make for you.
As a bonus, we have a new student coming to our seminary who is a university grad with her teaching credentials to teach Spanish to English speakers. Cynthia Villa is a 23-year-old pastor’s daughter from Oaxaca who feels called to become a missionary to the indigenous of Mexico. Cynthia also visited us while the Bokenkams were here and seems like a great fit as a gift from God to help us with our Spanish. Pray for Cynthia as she is adjusting to seminary classes and teaching us as she can.
We have yet another couple considering joining the mission, so perhaps you, too, should consider becoming a missionary with this mission as it takes these big steps into the future of ministry in Mexico. Wouldn't it be great to be called by God to serve on the front end of a revitalized and younger mission staff team?
Please check here to take you to a short video they recently recorded.
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