8 days till departure...

Busy, busy, busy! Sorting, packing, donating, and praying.  In just 8 days we will be on the road returning to Dine Bikeyah.  After a year and a half on furlough, it is time to return to our beloved Navajo!  It is sad to say good-bye to friends and family here in Kentucky, but there is much work waiting for us among the Navajo.   We have a 2 bedroom duplex waiting for us, and only a bookshelf and dishes to furnish it with thus far.  But as always, where God guides, He provides...

We have a two day journey starting out on the 28th, when we will be spending the night in Oklahoma, then we shall push on to Farmington, NM on the 29th.    We sign on the duplex the 30th and spend our first night in it that day!  We officially move in on February 2nd.


God is so good, and He is the Lamp unto our feet and the Light to our path... no matter how little beyond the next step we see He always goes there ahead of us.

Ahe'hee'! (Thanks!): to all who have helped and are continuing to make our work among the Navajo happen!

~ Rob and Michelle Nickles

Thanksgiving

Ya'at'eeh Keshmish Yazhi (Happy Thanksgiving - Navajo)!   

We have so much to be thankful for this year!  Good Family on all three sides (Birth, Adopted, In-laws).  A delightful Church Family at Immanuel Baptist Church of Corbin.  Bed, Board, and Hearth with family until we move to the Navajo Reservation full time.  A wonderful church, First Indian Baptist Church, in Farmington, NM and jobs waiting for us there as Youth/Student Ministry Leaders.  A superb growing team of supporters and prayer warriors backing us.  And Most of ALL: Salvation through Jesus Christ!

 God bless and Happy Thanksgiving!

~ Rob and Michelle Nickles

A team gathering...

We have a few friends gathering with us around the Nation to help with raising support and returning to the Navajo...
And we are now up to 9% pushing 10% funded!

Our future church home  is on San Juan Baptist Association at http://www.sanjuanbaptistassociation.com/church.php?assoc_churchID=3630 

~ Rob and Michelle Nickles

So it begins again...

 Rob and I have been resting and refocusing for some time now, and after much thought and prayer are beginning again the journey to return to live among the Navajo. We have been given the green light to begin gathering our team of friends who will "support" (I mean with friendship and prayer first, and support secondly, and as only as the Lord calls.)  We will be partnering with the San Juan Baptist Association and working in places like Farmington and Shiprock.

For us this is an answer to long months of prayer, as to when and how we would be returning to the Navajo Rez.  Now we can begin prepping in earnest: sorting our things, having sales at the flea market, visiting our friends and churches.  This is an exciting and scary place to be: Right at the start of our journey...

~ Rob and Michelle

Rez Rocket ~ The Truck

After Michelle's truck, Gypsy Dakota, died back in December, we had been vehicle-less for 6 months.  But now, we have to introduce you to our newest vehicle, my truck "Rez Rocket".  She is a 1986 Chevy Scottsdale, and I feel in love with her the moment I spotted her at the car lot here in Thoreau.  She is not great to drive around town in, but she is good for hauling woods, and gathering good supplies in Gallup or Farmington.  She is powerful, but at slow speeds she hogs gas.

Like a good Rez Rocket she has vroom.  She also needs a plow under the drivers seat and a tail gate.  She is beat up, but loved.  Now at least we have wheels again.  Thanks for everyone who prayed.

~ Rob