Michael & Ball Coming To the USA For Brief Trip – A NTIM Update – Dec 31, 2024

Dear Family, Friends, Partners in Ministry,

Today is not a normal newsletter update we do have to make an announcement and ask you to pray with us about a few things.

It has now been almost 5 years that Michael has been to the USA. Michael received an invitation from our home church of Shades Mountain Baptist Church to come to their Global Impact Conference in January 2025 and I am in the final stages of planning this trip.

As most of you know, when I make one of these long trips I like to take one of my staff along with me and help them to build stronger relationship with our friends and partners and this year I will be bring Ball with me on this trip both to attend this missions conference but also to travel to a few of our supporting churches, see some of our children and relatives we have not seen in 5 years, as well as see some of our friends and partners in ministry we have not seen in 5 years as well. If you would like to partner with us in helping cover some of the costs associated with bring Ball with us, please consider sending a donation to NTIM. It is a very valuable experience for our Thai staff.

Ball is the first person in his entire family to become a follower of Jesus and is from the 3^rd largest unreached people group in Thailand. His process of becoming a follower of Jesus began because he wanted to practice his English with a couple from Tuscaloosa, AL that came to serve with us about 7 years ago. They then invited him to our Christmas program at church where he won a door prize of studying English at our language school and guess who his first teacher was? Me, another person from Tuscaloosa, AL. What are the chances of that happening? God wants to use ordinary people like you and me to show His Greatness and His Love for the world. Our God is mighty to save.

We will arrive in the BHM international airport in the evening of January 20, 2025. We will have a few days to visit and be ready to be at the GIC from Jan 25 to Jan 29^th at Shades Mountain Baptist Church. We will have a vehicle during the times at GIC but are in need of a vehicle during the other times if someone has something available that we could use.

Please pray for me as I make the plans for traveling to a few states in the South. We have family that we need to visit in Jackson, TN, Atlanta, GA, Raliegh, NC. Also, we are trying to make it to a few supporting churches in Mississippi and in Alabama as well. If anyone would like for us to come and speak to any group about God’s work here in Thailand, please let us know and we will see if we can work something out.

May our Lord bless you. Praying that God opens the doors for us to be able to connect with many of you while we are there.

Until the People in and around Northern Thailand know Him,

Michael for the team

“Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” Habakkuk 1:5

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