Set Up at Immanuel Baptist Church of Corbin

Yesterday, we were blessed to be able to set up and share at our missions table about our mission among the Navajo.  Our home church Immanuel Baptist Church of Corbin, KY has been such a blessing in this journey back to the Navajo. We are honored to have them as our sending church!  We were blessed with two support pledges, and many more interested and 10 signed up to recessive the paper version of our newsletter!

21 days, that is what (housing approval pending) we may have left till we leave for Dine Bikeyah!  We are busy packing, sorting, and deciding what gets taken, what gets stored, and what is gone forever...  'Tis not an easy time but so worth the challenge.   As it is often said, "Where God guides, He provides.  Where He leads, He feeds."  That is sure being proven true, over and over for us!

~ 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

Immanuel Baptist and Wacky Wednesday

We had a good talk with our Pastor Allen, from our home church Immanuel Baptist Church, with alot of good ideas for ministry and work.  Our Love Offerings are helping big time with Gas and Travel Expenses.  Thank you to everyone who has given thus far!


This evening we also shared with the children of Immanuel Baptist, thanks to the invite of Jenni Lou Jackson.  It was awesome to hear them so interested in the Navajo, and to have them sit so still when Rob shared his story.  Some of them did look a bit quizzical and started giggling when he slipped into a rez accent while telling it.  After running some relays, the children went out to play water games.  It was good to share with the next generation.

We are working on getting pictures from San Juan Baptist Association from the Navajo work, and we are planing a trip for a week or two in October to visit the San Juan Region to meet our future team, and get some pictures.

~ Rob and Michelle Nickles

Pump Springs Baptist Church and Navajo Bibles!

Last night, we visited Pump Springs Baptist Church, where Rob attended in the early 2000's.  We had learned just yesterday morning, that Pastor Scott use to work at Immanuel Baptist, our home church.  Such a small world!  At Pastor Allen's advice, this was the first time Rob and I shared the talk, going back and forth sharing.  It worked well, and was our best talk to date.

The major thing that struck the People of Pump Springs Baptist Church was the fact the Navajo Bible had gone out of print, and they gathered an offering to buy as many Bibles as they could.  We came home to find in our e-mail box this morning, an update from our contact, the Navajo Bibles are BACK IN PRINT!
This is such a long standing prayer request dating back to 2011, and so awesome to see it answered.   We still will be getting Bibles to use for ministry from Pump Springs Baptist Church, and a great relief has washed over all of us.  God is good, He answers prayers, and has unique and special timing for letting his servants know the answers to their prayers.  Thank you to everyone who prayed and gave!

~ Rob and Michelle

Speaking begins May 29th!

Our first sharing is this Wednesday, May 29th at IBC's youth group.  We will be sharing with our small group at IBC June 2nd, and the IBC Children later this summer.  Michelle will also be presenting at her parents' church around June , if all goes well.  We have several other churches in the works, too.  This is an exciting, but scary time for us as we step out in faith and begin this phase of our ministry, gathering our team of "Praying Friends", "Giving Friends", "Sending Friends", and "Going Friends".

Be in prayer, our monthly budget appears to be around $3,750 (cost of living, travel, and ministry supplies), with an annual budget of $45,000.  Outside of finances, our current needs are stamps, printer paper, HP 61 ink (black and color), and legal envelops.  We also greatly need to build our team of "Prayer Friends", who pray daily and receive our monthly e-prayer letters.



God bless and thanks again to all who supported us last time out on the mission field!  I know God changes things in every ones lives, so we re-invite everyone to look at where God has you now... to see where you might fit in on this leg of the journey-task!

~ Rob and Michelle Nickles

Stormy ~ The Car

Stormy came into our life at last!  Who or what is Stormy?  Stormy is a stormy blue 2002 Dodge Neon, which was given to us by a family at Immanuel Baptist Church.  They knew we were missionaries returning from the Reservation, and that we have only Rob's old 1986 Scottsdale, Rez Rocket, to drive, and that she is a gas hog at that!  Stormy does well on gas.  All we have to do is replace her tires soon, and she is as good as new.  ^_^  Where God guides, He provides!

~ Rob and Michelle

PS: Thank you to the   , for your gift of the Car!