96% of Start-up Fund Raised!

 After just a month and half, we can say we are just 4% ($66) away  from being ready to leave for the Navajo Reservation and our work near Farmington, NM.  Keep us in prayer in the next few weeks as we contact possible duplex and apartments for housing.  We will be also packing our 2002 Dodge Neon, "Stormy", and seeing if Rob's bike, "Monsoon", fits on the roof rack we're buying.  It will be a busy month or so, as we prepare to move!

What a Christmas gift this as been and totally unexpected!  Literally, we went from 12% funded to 96% in a single Sunday.  It was December 15th, which is also our anniversary!  An anniversary/Christmas gift all in one!   Thank you to everyone who has given thus far!  We will still be need monthly supporters... but our start up fund is nearly full!  Ahe'hee'!  Thank you!

~ Rob and Michelle Nickles

Christmas Update 2013

What a year on furlough it has been! It was hard for us to leave the Navajo the first place, but God knew that Rob's mom would have back and neck surgery, and that we would start out 2013 in Kansas helping the Houser's due to my adopted mom, Linda's cancer treatments.  Rob even worked as a cart pusher at Walmart. April saw us returning to Kentucky, due to lack of jobs for both of us nor acquitted housing. It was a joy to return to our church home at Immanuel Baptist Church of Corbin and all our dear friend and family in Kentucky. We began making calls seeking what path God was going to have us take the next and quickly an answer came.

May 6th was a big day for us, because we became missionaries partnered with San Juan Baptist Association, at the advice of friends and NAMB.  Summer 2013 saw us on a whirlwind tour of churches from Kansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee.  In August we traveled back to the Navajo Reservation for a young friends passing.


September and October saw me employed for the first time as a temp worker at a local factory.  That fizzled on me.  Just as it did, we received a call asking us to be full time Youth and Student Ministry worker.  We will work bi-vocationally until the church can fully support us.  December sees us with 12% of our start-up support raised with a planed leave date at about February 1st!  Pray for God's will in our leaving...

As we leave this year of 2013 behind and prepare to enter into 2014, let us not forget Jesus, our Emmanuel, God with us, who came here over 2000 years ago as the greatest missionary and only Savior the world has ever known.  We pray that He will be the song in your hearts this Christmas, and the hope that dwells richly in your hearts throughout the New Years.


God bless and Merry Christmas to all!

~ Michelle and Rob Nickles

Central Baptist Church

Met today with Pastor Chad Fuggit at Central Baptist Church of Corbin, and shared with him about our missionary work.  It was an honor to sit down and talk with him about all we are doing.  For now CBC has pledged prayer support, and beyond that they are praying to see where God would lead.  ^_^

It was so good to be able to share, especially in this busy Christmas season.     In other news, we now have 12% of our Start-Up funds raised!

~ 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

7 1/2 Weeks Till Tentative Move Date!

We are 3 & 1/2 weeks into our support raising for Start-Up Funds.  That said, we have just 8% raised at $149 of the needed $1,800.  Not bad with letters just being out a week, and many still being sent.   Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us thus far!  We truly can't do this without any of you!

~ Rob and Michelle Nickles 

Back in Kentucky/Opening Doors

Been back in Kentucky for about 2 months busy working and saving, and God keeps surprising us with awesome doors to walk though.  Not that everything is easy.  Never is when preparing to serve the Lord in ministry.  But the door that is opening for us right now is big, and we are praying whole heartily for wisdom on timing to walk through it.  When we do, it would mean being back in Dine Bikeyah for good this time and would be a major step forward for us... timing is the issue/wisdom we need!

~ Rob and Michelle