Storage Unit is no more!

After 1 1/2 years living back east away from the reservation, with our stuff stored, the storage unit is no more!  That "monster" has been slayed, and now we can finish with last minuet packing and be ready to leave KY to live in Dine Bikeyah on Monday or Tuesday of next week.  So excited!

~ Rob and Michelle Nickles

Happy New Years!

Dear Friends and Family:

We, Rob and Michelle Nickles, missionaries currently attending Immanuel Baptist Church of Corbin, KY,will be returning as Youth/Student worker at churches on the rez in the Farmington, NM, area January 30th, 2014. Our vision is to see strong, Native Believers reaching their own people for Jesus Christ.

Our Purpose is Four Fold:

• Reaching Lost Native Youth
• Discipling and Mentoring New Believers
• Training Mature Believers in Ministry
• Sending Trained Believers out to Reach their own People.

North American Mission Board states that out of nearly 300,000 Navajo only 1-2% are Evangelical Christians.  We have made a long term commitments toward reaching the Navajo. One time gifts of any amount are always a blessing.  Most of all we are in need of your prayers.  Prayer is the fuel that will enable lost Native youth to open up their hearts to the Gospel of Jesus.  We are grateful for you partnering with us!

Because they haven’t heard,

Rob and Michelle Nickles

“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.  Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.  Go your way, behold, I am sending you forth as lambs among wolves.” Luke 10:2-3 (ESV)

Trouble on The Road...

Here we sit, at a car shop in Tennessee...
Waiting to see if Stormy is going to be fixed.
Waiting to see if we can make it to New Mexico by August 10th...
Waiting to see what is going on...
Transmission being replaced....
On the bright side we learned that some hotels still take cash.
Praying we can get back on the road... and make it to the memorial.

~ Rob and Michelle Nickles

Knoxville and Car - Stormy

We went and shared for the first time with some staff at First Baptist of Concord, and will be returning August 14 for a more detailed presentation.  The trip was awesome.  It was fun to see and be places we had not seen in 5 years since we lived in Knoxville just after getting married.   The trip there was truely uneventful, but not so would be the trip back...

The trip back, well, we have to cross Jellico Mountain to get back to Keavy.  Well it was a nice hot day, and "Stormy", our car, did not like the height of the mountain combined with the heat.  Thusly, she kept slowly getting hot.  Finally, one exit from home we had to pull off and just let her cool down.  Took her into the shop Wednesday morning.  Thermostat is fine, hoses looking good...just keep an eye on her, at least she is ok.

~ 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