Visas in hand!!

Hello everyone! We just wanted to keep you all in the loop with our preparations to head back to Papua New Guinea here soon. You may remember a couple months back we asked you to pray about our new Visas so we can return to PNG. We are pleased to tell you that we just got them in the mail last week! Many missionaries have had to wait many months to get theirs, so we are thankful that ours only took a few weeks to get processed. That means we can live and work in PNG for another 4 years! Thank you Lord.

We plan on leaving the last week in September & currently have about half of the money we need ($3500) to get our tickets and get back to our ministry in the Tobo tribe. Please keep praying that God would provide the remaining $3500! We also have several boxes of books & homeschool supplies we would like to send ahead of time through the mail. If you would like to help send a box, please let us know. They are $40 each and we have 8 boxes to send

We’d also like to share another answer to prayer. We asked you to pray for someone to come and homeschool the kids next year so Nisae can concentrate more on language learning. The Lord has raised up two young ladies to come for 3 months each next year! We are thrilled to see the Lord at work, ultimately to see the Tobo church come to maturity and to see many more added to it. Thanks for praying!

Your hands & feet,

Jason & Nisae Williamson
Kadynn, Judah & Eden

Hands and Feet on the Go!

Wow these last few months have certainly keep us on the go, now as things start to wind down a bit it’s interesting to take a look back and reflect on what God has done. After we returned from Papua New Guinea and I began looking at our busy “touring schedule” to be honest I really became a bit scared! I mean It’s been almost four years since I’ve shared in front of people in a church setting it was all a bit intimidating. So I was praying, “Lord you’re going to have to give me the strength to do this because this is all a bit overwhelming!” It’s kind of like Moses in Exodus when he’s reasoning with God and says “ Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?” That’s a bit how I was feeling. Now of course I’m not Moses and the people that I’ve shared with are not hard-hearted Egyptians, but the point is still the same and God has comforted me just like He did Moses when He said “I will be with you” and we have certainly felt God’s peace and wisdom as we have been sharing.

As we have gone out to share about our ministry among the Tobo people it’s been neat to see God going before us, opening doors and planting seeds in some people’s lives for full time missions and in others for partnership in the gospel. I sat down tonight and figured out that God has given us the privilege of sharing about what He is doing in Tobo 27 times since January of this year! We have been in 11 different churches, a Christian school, shared with the Christian Motorcycle Association, two youth groups, and stayed with many new friends. Though at times we have found ourselves exhausted from traveling, living out of suitcases, and eating at McDonalds way too much, (the kids don’t complain about this one!!) we know that God has been going before our journeys, planning every move and ultimately getting the Glory. Looking back at all the places we’ve been and all the people we’ve gotten to meet it’s something that only God could orchestrate! Isn’t it comforting knowing that it’s by His strength and not ours! Thank you for all your prayers for us over these past few months.

As we have visited with people one thing many people have asked about is if we have a needs list, or a list of things that we need to get before we return to Papua New Guinea in September. So we have compiled a list of some things below for you to prayerfully look over that think about. We know that you’re not giving to us but to God and the furtherance of the work in Tobo. If you feel like you would like to help out with one of these needs you may send it to 1000 E. First St. Sanford, FL 32771 labeling it for the specific need. Or you may give online at www.ntm.org/give/2023 , or feel free to contact us directly either by phone 419-410-2960 or by mail 5710 Kirkland, Toledo Ohio 43615

· Satellite Modem $1499 / this will be essential to life in the tribe we will use this to send and receive email, to make phone calls, give weather reports to pilots and even for the internet if need be.

· laptop computer $500 / we are looking to get another laptop so Nisae will have one to use when we get back for language study, email and everyday use.

· Tickets $7500 / As we begin looking at our return to PNG we are asking the Lord for provision but also for wisdom & safety in traveling. Lord willing we hope to leave around September 22^nd. Would you also pray as we are still waiting on the approval or our work visas to return. Pray that we would be able to line everything up and purchase the tickets on time.

· Clothes & shoes / We need to round up clothes & shoes for all of us for the next 4 years. If you would like to help with this, let us know and we can give you sizes or you can give $ towards this need.

Thanks again for taking the time to read through our update and looking at our needs. We thank God for each and every one of you.

Your hands and feet with a few blisters from traveling ,

Jason & Nisae Williamson

Put God's Words In Your Insides

We just received a very encouraging update from our co-workers Chad & Janeene Mankins who are in Tobo right now busy with teaching, discipleship and translation of the Tobo New Testament. We were encouraged by this little update and just wanted to pass it on to all of you who have been faithfully praying for the growth of the small church there in Tobo.

“The other day I was working on a Bible lesson in Romans and checking some scripture translation of Ephesians with my good friend Welsen. During that time, Welsen said, “I’ve got a new song that we can sing at the end of our meetings on Sunday that I’d like you to hear.” Intrigued, I said, “I want to hear it. Good,” and he proceeded to share the following with me (and this is what it comes out like in English):

God’s talk, God’s mouth-teeth (=words), it has come from his place.

God’s talk, God’s mouth-teeth, it has come from his place.

Let us not leave it to fall, leave it to fall on the ground.

Let us place it in our insides.

Let us not leave it to fall, leave it to fall on the ground.

Let us place it in our insides.

Let us hold it and go, go to our houses,

And we will take and share it and hear/know it.

Let us hold it and go, go to our houses,

And we will take and share it and hear/know it.

I am not usually at a loss for words, but I was overflowing with praise to God for giving my dear brother the gift of composing and expressing songs like this one. “This is great,” I told him. “I think it will be good to sing this and to see the fruit of it appear in our lives.”

And if you’ve enjoyed reading the words of this song, imagine how much sweeter it was for us to hear them sung on Sunday.

God is truly at work in lives here, even in the midst of what often seems like a long, slow process with its fair share of hiccups. God still delights at encouraging our hearts by giving us glimpses like these of the work he is continuing to do in the hearts of His children here in Toboland. And at the very same time, we discover that He is glad to use them to minister to and encourage our own hearts as we too are His children and His “works in progress”.

Please continue to pray with us and for us here. Pray that the words of this song will indeed become fruit in the lives of us all—that we will not leave God’s talk just fall to the ground, but place it in our insides and take it and share it with others and hear and know it.”

· Would you also pray for our co-workers, the Mankins, that God would supply them the strength and encouragement that they need day by day as they minister there in Tobo.

· Just Also wanted to thank you for all of you who were praying for Nisae and I as we ministered at the First Baptist Church in Stryker Ohio this past weekend. We are so thankful for the many opportunities that God gave us to share about what He is doing in Tobo. Friday night we shared with the youth group, then Saturday afternoon Nisae spent time with ladies at a luncheon and in the evening we met with the church for a panel discussion about life on the mission field. Sunday morning I had the privilege of sharing in the morning service and Sunday night we showed our ministry videos and shared about our roles in the Tobo work. Our hope and prayer is that God used this time to challenge many others of the urgency of this task and that many would respond to God’s leading in their lives.

Your hands & feet to Tobo,

Jason & Nisae Williamson

Kadynn, Judah & Eden