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THE NELMANS MAY NEWS

Hi! Greetings from Manado-Indonesia,
It’s been a very great time for us family as we are now still staying with Fanty’s parents and her siblings, we’re also in new bigger bedroom than before which allows Fanty to walk around and sleep better. Kids are getting use to everything, they start understand and speak some Indonesian and we just love to see how they pick up words so fast. Fanty is now overdue with the baby but we have another week to wait according to our doctor and will see after that what options they have for Fanty. This is Fanty’s longest pregnancy among our other kids, she is so anxious about having the baby on her hands.
A couple of weeks ago Nomad by himself had chance to visit his Mom in Maluku island, it was good family reunion for him since two of his sisters and a adopted brother were there. As you all know, nomad was also asked to go to work on the water system. Nomad’s mom was so glad that they finally have running water again in the house after almost two years without it and they had to hauled water up and down the river which about 100 meters away from the house. One great praise during Nomad’s time in Maluku was to witness his sister came to know Christ, this was not an instant profession for her but after every night in a week studying God’s Word specifically on salvation she became fully understand God’s grace for her. Please pray for Nomad’s sister as she grow as a new believer.
Here in Manado we’re doing small group Chronological Bible study every night with Fanty’s families and relatives and sometimes one or two neighbors came to join us, but it’s too difficult for most of them to understand if they not follow each lesson because they’re not attending it regularly. But right now we have three person regularly doing it with us and we will be very grateful if they can do this to the end of the Firm Foundation lesson.
We’re planning on staying in Manado city (with Fanty’s parents) until july and then will get ready to go to the Campus (missionary training center) to do our one year mission training. For those who don’t know, we have already take the first year of missionary training with this school which has the emphases on studying the Bible(first year was more like a bible school). So now we are going to be doing the mission portion of the training. Please pray for our preparation for everything that we need during the training.
As our family growing we’re currently thinking about getting a family van, we’re starting to realize with all the motorcycle accidents here it actually too risky to have small kids like our kid’s age in the motorcycle because they have almost no protection, plus with the car or van will definitely better for a long trip. We’re thinking of a used van or small suv that will also be use later when we move to different places, such as in Kalimantan. We have some saving from selling our vehicle in The States but that’s not enough yet to get a car here in Indonesia, so right now we have 50% in meeting this needs. If you interested in helping our ministry by meeting this needs please let us know and we will make sure that go toward this specific needs.
We sincerely thank you for all your support in prayers, financially and thru all of your encouragements for us. Lord bless you!

In His Great Love,
Nomad & Fanty Nelman
Madison, Carly & Marion
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Email Address : nomadnelman3@gmail.com
Mailing Address : Nomad & Fanty Nelman
d/a. YMMP/PPMMP
P.O.Box 1036
Manado Sul-Ut 95011
Indonesia.
Phone Number:
Cell 62-813- 4002-2317
Home 62-431-821-627

Arive in Manado-Indonesian

Dear friends,

We are so sorry for our late news regarding our trip from The States to our home country of Indonesia.

We just had our internet installed in the house on Monday. But anyway, we did arrived on the 28th of march with no other trouble than the delayed flight from LA to Singapore and from Singapore to Manado, this was mainly because of the fatal accident occurred in Tokyo-Narita Japan by FedEx plane.

The airline agent had to change all of our scheduled flight to a different date and time but really nothing we want to complain since their agent provide for us everything we need during the whole trip, hotels and of course our 5 days meal too. Plus we were not in a hurry, in fact Lord had answer our prayer - with Fanty’s condition we actually want to have good rest between the flights which we had plenty during our trip. All of our bags are fine with minor broken here and there but didn’t hurt anything inside, so we’re really praise the Lord with that.

We really proud of our girls for they were doing really well, a lots of things to keep them busy even when they’re on their seats all the time but they enjoyed it so much, they are really good travelers.

Nomad’s business trip to Jakarta to meet YMMP board have canceled after they have decided for us to just stay here in Manado, their plan is to come here in Manado on May for the mission school graduation so they may as well meet us during that time for our training report.

Trip to Pontianak has consequently postpone until January 2010. Next week on monday Nomad will be going by himself for 3-4 days to his village in maluku island to help his mom to repair the house and their water system plus it will be time for him to visit his family as well.

We are now staying in Fanty’s parents house with her sister and brother. A little crowded here but we prefer this for several reason.

An obvious reason why we want to stay here in the Manado city area is because it very close to the doctor and the hospital as Fanty is getting closer to the due date for the baby. Another reason is for us to spend more time with Fanty’s family in the Word of God as they still looking for a clear understanding of God’s plan of salvation/His saving grace for them.

We have at least 4 more months before we head to the mission school to continue our last year of training, so we decide to asked Fanty’s parents if they will let us make one more room in their house for us to stay during that 4 months period.

We hate to say this but we want you to know that everyone in our family are struggling right now to get adjusted with warm and humid climate. Hopefully we will get adjusted within this two or three weeks. We will really appreciate your prayer for this and for our time settling in a whole new life again.

Thank you so much for keeping us in your prayers and for supporting us.

God Bless You!.

In His great Love,

Nomad & Fanty Nelman

Heading back to Indonesian

03/14/2009

Dear Friends,

We had a big discussion with our leadership of NTM Indonesia regarding our plan in relation with our visas status right now. Our business visa application have not been denied yet but according to immigration rules we can’t exceed 240 days(8 months) staying under pending visa and in our calculation of date, by the end of this month (march) will be our 240 days so beyond it we will be out of status with no option than leave the country.
We probably made a real rush decision just because we put Fanty’s pregnancy as a main concern at this time. If we can go home right now (within this month), Fanty will still be able to fly with the airliner but after this month she would reach her 35 weeks of pregnancy and most airline wont let her fly. On the other hand if we have to wait until Fanty give birth to the baby then we will be overstay/out of status with our pending visa and will also keep us at least 4 months before we can go home (considering Fanty’s recovery and all the paper work for the baby). Sure, it will be a different situation if we got our visas approved which mean we can just request an extension for our visa. But we really don’t have time to wait for our visa to get it approved because of Fanty’s situation.
Now that we have decided to go back to our country with all of our tickets confirmed for the 23th of this month, we are in rush of packing our luggage and prepare the crate for our kitchen stuff, mechanic tools, and toolbox to be shipped over to Indonesia.
As you can see this was a big surprise for us as a family and a big change in our plan too. But yet we trust God whose in control of everything and for His best plan for us.
Nomad’s training here in Arizona with NTMA have just completed (all flying & maintenance for fixed wing). Regarding all other further training that we have mentioned on our previous updates letter will have to wait until later in the future.
And for Fanty to have the baby in Manado, Indonesia become the plan right now. This of course will drastically reduced the cost of giving birth compare to here in Arizona but at the same time we are facing another huge expenses with shipping, setup cost in Indonesia in preparation for continuing our one year mission training in National Missionary Training Center which will be starting on august this year, and there is several traveling cost where nomad will have to fly to Jakarta to give report to our mission board and then fly to Pontianak where Nomad will start be looking for available house to rent for the next year and also for him to start be in the loop with the aviation program there before we all head there next year where we will be serving in aviation with NTM/YMMP.
All of these seems overwhelmed but we starting to feel that we are part of the ministry of reaching the lost for Christ and we’re so excited about this.
We are sorry for all of the sudden change in our plan. But we truly encouraged by you and all of your support in prayers & financially for our family.

Gratefully Serving Him,
Nomad & Fanty Nelman





The Nelman’s 6 months plan of 2009:
March 23th Leaving US for Indonesia
25th Arrived in Manado
29th Nomad will be going for YMMP(Indonesian NTM) board meeting in Jakarta
April 1st Leaving Jakarta to Pontianak
8th Going back to Manado from Pontianak
May 13th Our baby due date
August 10th mission class start


Our new Address after march 23th :
Nomad & Yufanty Nelman
YMMP/PPMMP
Kotak Pos 1036
Manado, 95011
Sul-Ut, Indonesia.

We would like to give you an update on what’s going on us in this last couple of weeks. We are praising the Lord for His faithfulness in protecting us and keeping us going through out the past year and we are even able to begin this year with new courage and strength from Him. Thank you so much for all your prayers, encouragements and for your financial support for us, we realize we would not be here today doing what’s God want us to do if no one from God’s children willing to sacrifice time, money and even talent to support us.

Our trip to California last Christmas went really well. We were able to use one vehicle for two families in order to save money on gas. A good thing that we have a suburban that can be load with 11 passengers(2 extra seats were installed on the cargo area) and cargo on top of it. It was a little too crowded with 6 toddlers inside but we made it home in Arizona safely. We had a good time with McDole’s family- our friend missionary in LA California, they were able to provide us a house for two weeks from one of their friend at church. And that was a real blessing how God provide it for us. We were able to report our present here in the States to the Indonesian consulate as the prerequisite before we can apply for passports, thankfully everything took place in one day(normal process at least 2-3 days).
During our time in California, since it was Christmas and new year so our schedule were full with get together with Indonesian group and Indonesian churches in the area. It was a great opportunity for us to meet and challenge them with the work for the Gospel to our own countrymen. Some of them have been living in the States for a long time and don’t even know if there is still unreach people group in Indonesia. We were so blessed with all the Indonesian food and the fellowship with other Indonesian- so we did feel home for awhile.
As we came back to Arizona we were fresh and ready for the training. Nomad had finish one part of the training and starting this month with aircraft maintenance training, in April he will doing transition flight training to a different aircraft(from Cessna 185 to Cessna 206). For some of you who don’t know or did not follow our news from the beginning, we just want to explain about the training that Nomad is doing right now- Nomad is already have all his Fix wing Pilot and Mechanic licenses and ratings when we were in Michigan with School of Missionary Aviation Technology and what he is doing right now is the standardization training to meet New Tribes Mission Aviation (NTMA) standard in flying and also maintenance.
Our leadership asked us to consider an additional helicopter training and if possible to extend our stay here for several more months beyond what we have scheduled, this all because of the current Indonesian government required for all mission agencies who operates aircrafts in the country have to have at least one national personal trained for both category of aircraft(airplane & helicopter) or one personal per each category. This February NTM Indonesia will start operate helicopter in Indonesia by using helicopter from HELIMISSION under a working agreement between these two mission agencies but ones NTM get their own helicopter imported to Indonesia then the whole government requirements will have to met by NTM itself. This where we are needed to fulfill this requirement and of course this training will really depends on our visa and a whole new funds will need to be raise for the training. Nothing change in our ministry, there just be more responsibility in part of building God’s Kingdom as we have all these skills.
We are in the midst of uncertainty regarding our visa, no news so far but we still have our real hope in God who is in control of everything and He knows when and what is the best for us.
Our family is doing good, for some reason we miss snow. Everytime the kids get up in morning and saw this thick fog around our trailer house, they would ask us if they can go outside and play with snow and so we just keep telling them that was not snow but fog, so then the conversation with kids will goes on and on all about snow, snowman, snow sledding, shoveling snow and more. Well guest what? life in Michigan took a big chunk of space in their brain memory.
The kids are growing really fast, our oldest daughter will turn 5 this may so she will be in kindergarten this year, she so exiting about going to school and we are so grateful that she’s pretty good now with numbers, alphabets, shapes, colors and also spelling and because she knows about a lot of things so she said she would like to be a teacher one day and working with the small kids and even now she is doing a very good job on teaching her two sisters.
Carly (our second daughter) almost as big as Madison, she will be four this july and enjoy so much her time in her Sunday school class specially doing projects & interaction with other kids. Our poor Marion just had 5 shots for 7 vaccines recently and about three weeks ago she also had 4 shots that covered 6 vaccines, she is doing fine right now and hopefully will stay like that in this next couple of days.
Fanty is the busy mom, Her pregnancy seems to be doing okay, she finally got over her morning sickness. When we got back from our trip to California we were able to go for an ultrasound to find out how is the baby doing and also the baby gender and we are so exciting because this year we will be welcoming a baby boy in our family so praise the Lord for that. T he next thing that we have been thinking right now if the baby will be born here in the States then we will need to be ready for all the cost involve, we have checked two homebirth midwife in the area and they all gave price range almost as much as doing it in the hospital so we still considering what will be the best for us to do. But if for visa reason we have to go back to Indonesia before the baby due then it’s going to be a lot easier back home but we don’t want that to happen before we finish the training here in McNeal. So if you can remember pray for God’s provision, strength and wisdom for us during this time, we will really appreciate that.


Thank you so much for your patient waiting for our news and again thank you for your faithful support for us. God Bless You!