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Evelyn Nanninga (Assoc. ’20) to Ben Jost (ABM/B.Th. ’22) on May 28, 2022.
Births September 26, 2022 - to Ryan (’14) and Emily (Olmstead, Assoc. ’14) Legere, a daughter, Lindsey Eliza Ryanne.
Homegoing Norma Kelly, NBBI graduate of 1962, was promoted to Glory on July 3, 2022. Norma served with the Africa Inland Mission for over 45 years in various parts of Africa and England.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our board, staff & students!
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After a two year unexpected break, our Men for God Conference is returning in 2023. As the Apostle Paul anticipated the Day of the Lord, he encouraged the believers to “...comfort (exhort) yourselves together and edify one another, even as also you do.” (1 Thess. 5:22). Our Men for God rally is a great opportunity for men to build each other up in our faith. The dates for our upcoming conference are January 27-28, 2023. Plan
on joining us for solid teaching, great food and encouraging fellowship. Our speaker this year is Pastor Deric Bartlett. His passion for the Word of God and powerful preaching will be an encouragement to all who come. Deric was raised in New Brunswick, “the promised land”, as he affectionately calls it. He was ordained to the Gospel ministry at 22 years of age and took his first pastorate the same year. He has shepherded local churches in Maine, Nova Scotia, Indiana and Ontario. Deric and his wife April have been married for 39 years and have four married children and eight grandchildren. He is the senior pastor at City Centre Baptist Church in Mississauga, ON, a multicultural family of believers from around the world. Deric’s focus is on equipping the church family to work together in reaching others with the Gospel. Please visit our website for more information and to register: nbbi.ca/mfg.
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Growing up I frequently heard this statement, “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times…”. Maybe you also heard this statement when you were a child or perhaps you have said it to your children. In their defence, children typically have a short attention span, need to be taught, and often need to be reminded of the task to which they were assigned. After all, children are young and immature. They are learning and often don’t listen or pay attention. This seems to follow us into adulthood. It seems that our flesh is plagued with neglecting two areas in which we have been repeatedly instructed to be faithful. One of these areas is prayer. God’s Word clearly instructs us to be diligent in prayer and so many Christian authors also remind us of this crucial element of the Christian faith. Recently, I was conversing with someone about the needs in missions. Our conversation led us to discuss one area that we are instructed to pray for. Matthew 9:37-38 says, “The harvest is truly plenteous, but the labourers are
few; pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” The needs in missions are overwhelming. No mission agency is overwhelmed with trying to place all the missionaries desiring to give their lives to serve the Lord. Prayer should govern our lives. The Apostle Paul exhorted us to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17). The Lord spent all night in prayer before calling the twelve disciples (Luke 6:12). Are you going through a hard time? Are you facing a difficult decision? Do you have unsaved loved ones? Are you struggling with sin? Take these things to the Lord in prayer. The second area that we neglect, despite instruction and constant reminders, is reading and studying God’s Word (2 Timothy 2:15). Years ago, I was talking to a discouraged missionary who was extremely busy serving the Lord. It was a well-known fact that he had a short fuse. In the course of our conversation, I asked him when he had last read the Bible to feed himself rather than for ministry purposes. Without hesitation, he told me that it had been five years. We could easily shake our heads in disgust or shock, but it is important to evaluate ourselves in this area also. Are we spending time in God’s
Word to feed ourselves, rather than solely to feed others? Unlike the roughly 2,500 languages that do not have one verse in their language, we are so blessed to have the Bible in many different forms. May we desire God’s Word like David did (Psalms 42:1; 63:1; 119:131). May we not be like immature children that need to be reminded a thousand times, but rather let us be mature believers that commit ourselves to prayer and spending time in God’s Word.
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