so, this blog that brett and i are starting will be a simple way for you to hear about what is going on in our day to day ministry. it probably wont always be exciting, and it won't always be pretty, but i promise that it will always be real. we will share with you not only what we are experiencing in the classroom (and on the field when we finally get there) but what we are learning in life. we will share our failures as well our successes. and it will be a way for you as our loved ones, friends, supporters, acquaintances, fellow missionaries, etc. to hear about whats going on in our life and ministry on a day to day bases.
if any of you are just happening to stumble across this blog and know nothing about brett and i, let me tell you a little bit about us and what this blogs all about....
this is brett and i. my name is morgan, so we're brett and morgan gordon. yes, it rhymes. we just got married in may. so we are newly, newlyweds, and we are training with new tribes mission, to plant tribal churches among the unreached tribal groups of papua new guinea.
that little red dot over australia is PNG and it has over 600 different language groups living within it. over 300 of those language groups still have no access to the bible. they have never been to a church. they have never heard the Word of God. never heard the name Jesus. and no one is telling them. they will never hear the gospel unless we as believers go and take it to them.
so thats what brett and i are training to do. the process starts by moving over to papua new guinea permanently. we will move into an unreached tribal group and spend several years learning there language fluently. we will then teach them the bible starting in genesis and going through to jesus in their native language. once people come to know the Lord, we have a baby church. our next step is discipling that church to maturity and become a self-functioning church who doesn't need us as missionaries anymore to thrive and survive. and finally, we will translate the Word of God into their language.
and then my friends, this people group who previously in history never had the chance to know the truth, who could only live in darkness and hopeless will have the life that is Jesus Christ, not only for their generation, but to pass onto generations to come.
right now brett and i still have one more year of training with new tribes mission. we are currently training in camdenton, missouri. in may we'll graduate and be official new tribes missionaries. then all that will be left between us and papua new guinea is a year of support raising. that sets the timeline for us being overseas around august 2015. although Lord knows its all up Him.
this is the passion the Lord has given us. we know he has called us to be apart of this work of reaching the unreached. so thats what this blog will be about. i will update you on what's going on in our day to day training and our day to day lives. not all of it will be about missions, but none of it will be about nothing.
-morgan gordon
