Live from New Zealand, it’s Saturday night!

 Yes we are still ALIVE!!  J Praise the Lord for His daily sustenance.

We finally mailed off our residency application.  Now it’s in the hands of New Zealand Immigration and obviously and thankfully still in God's hands.

As most of you know, we’ve been sharing one apartment with the boys that come to the Bible College. For this upcoming semester (which started September 3^rd) God has blessed us with our own place!!  We are so excited and thrilled!

So as you can imagine with residency paper work, house moving, and preparation for the new semester our lives have been a bit crazy.

The other day I was thinking how privileged we are to get this chance to serve in this beautiful country, with amazing people, for a great God! One of the definitions of the word privilege is “the principle or condition of enjoying special rights or immunities”.

Truly God has blessed us with special rights! God is the reason we are here, doing what we’re doing, and still being able to do it.  God has provided everything from a house, vehicle, food, even clothes!  We have seen Him bless us beyond belief.

So thank you for all the prayers and support!!!

Please continue to keep us in your prayers for our residency application and for our finances.

Our Life

A lot has happened since the last time we have written so let me begin to fill you all in. Somebody said: “There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.” We try to live our life having the hope that David expresses best in Ps.71 “But as for me, I will always have hope…” And this is a miracle in itself. Having hope in this world, living our lives as a miracle because we are saved by a gracious God, because He has chosen us!!! “What god is so great as our God? You are the God who performs miracles; You display Your power among the peoples.” Ps 77. Looking at our precious daughter growing up, learning how to eat, move, crawl and finally walk….is amazing! It is a miracle! We came to the conclusion that a baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. Another miracle is having a washing machine!!! Yes, thank you Lord! We have our own washer!! 2 years ago, living in the States, having a washing machine was the norm, everybody has a washer and a drier, we tend to go on in life and take everything for granted, but now and here…a washer is a miracle☺. He has blessed us with everything that goes inside a house, all the furniture, kitchen stuff, beds and tables….we just need the house now. So that is a huge prayer request that the Lord would provide a place for us. Being in New Zealand, God continues to show us many miracles, He’s telling us to open our eyes and see! We are surrounded by His goodness we just need to see it. To be honest it hasn’t been easy to live here in NZ, but the Lord is challenging us “As they pass through the Valley of Baca (which means trouble or weeping or desert) they make it a place of springs.” Ps 84. So the Bible College here in New Zealand has finished its fourth semester. It has been a long but good one. I, Jake, taught through the Gospel of Luke, Galatians and Ephesians. Tecla once again oversaw the food and M199 serventhood class, the food was awesome! During the semester I led an outreach team to a city in New Zealand called Hamilton. It was fun and exciting seeing the team, which was mostly Americans, mix in with a bunch of Kiwis, spreading the Good News. We have decided to apply for New Zealand residency. To give the short version of the process, we have begun the paper work for medical forms, background checks for almost every country we lived in and a bunch of extra stuff. What does all of this mean for us? This means that this winter (or summer depending on which hemisphere you live in), June-August we will not be visiting the States. Please keep us in your prayers as we are once again taking a step of faith, concerning residency and housing.

Please feel free to shoot us an email if you would like.

Thanks for your prayers and support.

Love Jake, Tecla and Jade Wilmoth