Hello from Naya!

Who are you, Naya? :)
Hi! My name is Naya.

I'm 6 years old, and my mom and dad decided that we are going to Papua New Guinea!

And I have a little sister named Jocie. And she's 4 years old. She turned 4 a couple weeks ago (months, hehe) and I turned 6 a couple months ago.

After spring we're gonna stay for summer. In the middle of the summer we're going to Papua New Guinea.

Why are we going to Papua New Guinea?
We're going there because we're gonna move somewhere else and we chose to move to Papua New Guinea to tell people about Jesus. We're going to speak about the Bible and tell them about Jesus, that He loves us and He cares about us. That's why we're going to Papua New Guinea. So that way we can tell the people in Papua New Guinea that "God loves you and He's taking care of you." Because they don't know about Jesus! And they need to learn about Jesus a lot because they don't know!

(Boy, when she gets going!....)

What are you nervous about? Excited about?
I'm nervous to talk to the kids because I don't know the language. And they might have paint, because I saw a picture of a kids with paint on their face and it looked 'kinda weird.' They also sometimes have orange feathers on their hats and like to put sticks through their noses. That's what I"m nervous about.

But I'm so excited to learn the language! And I'm a little excited to play at the beach and see the other kids. But I'll learn the language so I can talk to the other kids!

What will you miss about America?
I even will miss my grandma and grandpa and mamamina and my cousins and my tios and tias when we are in Papua New Guinea. We're gonna stay for a reeeeeeally long time, but then we will visit soon, and then go back to Papua New Guinea. We'll even visit some people we go to small group with and do music shows with and gymnastics shows and I even got to teach them how to dance... (she kept going about this for awhile....haha!  But you just learned about her interests- music, dance [ballet] and 'gymnastics'.)

Is there anything else you'd like to tell everyone? :)
We are missionaries, we like to tell people about God. And my daddy speaks in the church and he tells about God and reads the Bible. He's nice. He helps with our homeschool too, and my mom helps with my cursive writing, and I'm learning my cursive words now. And Jocie's learning how to do her letters and she's doing math and coloring pictures. She really likes to do that. She really likes to trace.

Bye! And you should tell people about God, too!

Love, Naya

This... Is... It!

Christmas Day, with Grandma Roe

Yes, that is my parents' "favorite" one-liner, spoken by _________ on the reality TV show ________ (do you know?).

It's time for a flashback, folks! Some of you have been following us throughout our four years of training. Many of you have known us LONG before. And others of you may not know our history yet.

When Noe was about 12, he heard the story of a young girl about his age in another country who was being beaten and told to give up her Bible. But she refused, and she was continually beaten. This story, this testimony of love for God and faith in Him inspired Noe and was the first of many things the Lord used to compel him to be involved in reaching the unreached with the Gospel!

When Lisa was 15, she sat through a dinner theater re-enactment of the story of a missionary who was killed for the sake of Christ. This was the first time she learned about people groups without the Bible in their own language. Like Noe's history, this was the first of many things the Lord used to compel her to be involved in reaching the unreached with the Gospel!

at PNB's Nutcracker in Seattle

So for both of us, it has been 15-20 years of the Lord preparing, planting, cultivating, and now working out His desire and plan for our lives! As we "toast" in the new year, 2014, let us "toast" together to the next 15-20 years, with the eager anticipation that He will work through His church (people like you and I!) to work out His desire and plan for the lives of the unreached- that they will hear His Gospel clearly for the first time and believe in Jesus Christ, who took our punishment for sin by His death on the cross, offering us forgiveness and eternal life with Him through His death and resurrection!

So we are buckling up! We are planning to move our family overseas in July, just under 7 months from now. Time is flying by, and we are doing paperwork, making plans for packing, and continuing to build our support team. We would like to offer you a specific update on our support team very soon. Stay tuned!

• Please pray with us that He will raise up more laborers for His harvest field!! Both for our support team, and even more that He will raise up more missionaries to GO! 
• Pray also for some recent health concerns (personal and family)~ and that in the midst of them, our lives will always bring Him glory.