February 2013

Hello every one,
I can't believe it is already February 2013, where did January go?  I hope you are all well!

So we wanted to fill you all in on what has taken place in the past few months.
Since the end of last semester, (beginning of December) we were blessed with the opportunity to go back to California for about 5 weeks.  We left New Zealand to see family and friends for the first time for about a year and a half.  It was truly a blessed time.  We spent most of it just enjoying the fellowship with Jake's family.  It was priceless to see Jade and Olivia (Jake's 2 year old niece) running the house:)  We were able to meet with Franz and Monica who were down here in New Zealand for a time.  We also attended the missions conference at Calvary Chapel Bible College Murrieta, for a few days.

We have since headed back to New Zealand and are now under way with a new semester which began on February 4th.  From out travel it has taken us some time to get back into the swing of things, so please continue to keep us in prayer.
This semester Jake is teaching the book of Joshua along with over seeing Friday Lectures, Morning Devos, and various other areas in the college.  Tecla is once again our fabulous head cook and in charge of the students servant hood areas.  Jade is the school mascot, her job is to be her self and make the students laugh and to love on the horses around the Ranch.

We do have a praise report.  While we were in California we got news that our residency application was accepted.  We will have to pay quite a bit of money for the migrant levy but other then that we just send in the passports and we are golden.

Philippians 1:6 "being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it, until the day of Christ."

Prayer requests:
Wisdom in raising Jade
Extra finances for the residency migrant levy
Wisdom for this up coming semester

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

A. “A long obedience in the same direction.”- Eugene Peterson

Hello Friends and Family,
Marry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope this newsletter finds you and yours in a time of rejoicing and celebration of our savior’s birth. I know for us this year has been different and stretching but God is faithful and so we must be faithful to give him praise.
So to fill you in we have finished our 3 semester at Calvary Chapel Bible Institute New Zealand, and love it. This is exactly what Tecla and I want to do for the rest of our lives; praise the Lord He has allowed us to do this. We have spent our second Christmas in New Zealand and it has truly been better then the first, partly because we have an actual tree ☺. Jade’s first Christmas has been a lot of laughs. It was fun to have my parents (Jake’s parents), come out and visit us for Thanksgiving. It is become somewhat of a tradition to have some one come visit us at that time of year, we love it. I, Jake, was blessed by God (as always), but also by the Pastor’s here in New Zealand, to be ordained. It was a great timing because they ordained me when my parents were here, which was a huge blessing for all of us.
As far as next semester I will be teaching 3 classes, Galatians/ Ephesians (as one class), the Gospel of Luke, and Friday Lectures. Tecla will be overseeing the food and servant hood (m199) area again. Jade will continue to be Jade.
We have a couple of prayer request. Our visa, we are looking at the next step for us as a family and to get Residency would be best with Jade and all the benefits with health care. The only thing with that is we do not meet the minimum requirement financially to apply for residency. The other thing to be praying for is more housing for all of us as a school. As some of you know we live with the boys of the school, which has not been too bad. The thing is Jade is getting bigger as well as the school is getting an increase of people, so we will need get our own place as a family soon. But we know God is good and He is our portion, so praise him for that (Psalm 73:26).
So thank you all for your prayers and support. We love you all and miss you all. As always please feel free to email, or call us if you would like, or we can even skype. Thanks again Love Jake, Tecla and Jade Wilmoth

Psalm 84:11-12 “For the Lord God is a sun and shield, the Lord will give grace and glory, no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You!”

On our way again

Hello everyone,
Well here it is 1 year from the first time we left for New Zealand. A lot has happened since the last time we have updated you all so let me fill you in a little.
A few months ago Tecla came to the States. Later on, after closing down the semester in New Zealand, I joined her for the waiting of our little Jade. As some of you may have heard, Jade Elizabeth Wilmoth was born on 7-9-11. She was 7. 10 lbs beautiful and healthy. She is now a month old, such a gift from the Lord. Mommy (Tecla) is doing well, looking forward to the newness of life together with our daughter. We’re both amazed and blessed to know that God has entrusted us a sweet angel. We’ve been parents for 5 weeks and this is our experience so far: being a parent is like on 24 hours emergency alert. Sometimes, you wonder how can you survive till your kid is grown. Some days, you simply feel inadequate and don't have a clue in the world of what to do next... but we both rely on God’s enabling power to be faithful parents.
I (Jake) have been working in a warehouse in Bloomington, Revchem composites. It has been a huge blessing to be working while back home. I have also been getting ready to be teaching 2 classes for next semster, the book of Joshua and the book of Revelation. These are some quotes that inspire me: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. I am excited to be used again and to see what God will accomplish in the lives of the students.
We are planning to go back to New Zeland soon. We applied for another year work visa on Thursday, August 4th. We are praying that they will get back to us soon so we can get our tickets and shortly be on our way. Tecla and I have been praying and feel more and more that the Lord is leading us to make New Zealand our home. As we are on our way, we will be looking into how the Lord may provide, and if that is truly His will.
Thank you all for your prayers and support. We appreciate all the love and encouragment that every one has shown us since we have been home and since Jade was born.
Prayer requests:
Raising Jade in the way of the Lord
New Semester at the College
Finaces & accomadations
Wisdom in how to go about making New Zealand our home
Please feel free to email us at jtw@ccbi.ac.nz or if you would like you can call us at 1-909-795 -0690 until August 22nd.
Thank you and love you all.
Jake, Tecla and Jade Wilmoth

“Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear least any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.” - Hebrews 4:12

I can’t believe it, but our time in New Zealand is coming to an end, or is it?

Well hello again,
I can’t believe it, but our time in New Zealand is coming to an end, or is it?
Well let me fill you in on what has happened before I tell you what is coming.
So Tecla and I have been in Rotorua, New Zealand for almost a year. It has been the most amazing thing we have done, and we have enjoyed every minute of it. I am currently co-teaching through the book of Romans with Mark Walsh, and then teaching Community Outreach. Tecla is still in charge of food service and the student’s servant areas (m199). To explain our time here, in a few words, I’ll use one of C.S. Lewis’ quotes: “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” It’s been a blast! God has been our strength and our guide: Psalm 36:5 “Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.”
Tecla is very pregnant. I think she is beautiful, but she says “How can I be beautiful when I have a belly like this?” Of course you have to imagine her saying that with a Romanian accent. As I said our time here is coming to a close for now. Tecla is heading back to California on April 28th. I will finish teaching here at the college and then join her in California on June 8th.
Our hope and prayers are to come back to New Zealand after the baby is born. We are not sure when that will happen or how it will take place. We are not sure as of when, because of our visas, we have to get new ones as well as all of the proper documentation for the baby. We are not sure of how, because our financial situation is not stable enough to support a family of 3. We know that He alone is our source for everything, where He guides He provides, so please pray with us and for us. Psalm 9:10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
So with that said, while we are in the States please email us. We would love to try seeing as many of you as possible. And thank you all so much for your prayers and support.

Tsunami Warnings from the Japan earthquake

Hello every one,
There was an earthquake in Tokyo, Japan. It was a about an 8.0 very large. So because of that I know a lot of the West coast of the United States have received Tsunami warnings. New Zealand has received similar warnings. But thankfully they are low risks unless you are in the water. So for us we are all ok. We were going to go to the beach today for an evangelistic outreach with the college, but as of right now we are sitting tight to play it safe. I have had contact from the Bible college in Okinawa and they have said they are fine really didn't feel much and the Tsunami warnings weren't big for them. But Tokyo and surrounding cities are very badly hit. So please keep them and their friends and family who might be in Tokyo, in prayer. Thank you and love you all.
in Him
Jake and Tecla and little one on the way