An important update from
Ben & Angela Blycker
Impacting People Worldwide
Ben meeting with men up north to affirm their mission
fields in the areas of engineering, realty and teaching,
and to share his own in construction.
None of us are home yet.
For as long as God’s people
can remember, they have
been seeking the way home.
The Bible reveals that their
destination was never Egypt,
or Jerusalem, or Babylon, but
God, always God. Thousands
of years later, Jesus would
appear as the long-awaited
Messiah with no home
(Matthew 8:20). The message
was clear: if God was where
we came from, and God is
where we are going, then we
have no permanent address,
and all our shelters along the
way are merely temporary
ones which cannot fully sustain
or define us (see Barbara
Brown Taylor's work, "The
Preaching Life"). Some of us
have houses and some of us
are losing ours; but none of us
are home yet.
This Fall, our family of five
went on our first support-rais-
ing project. With most of our
belongings in a storage unit
since last spring, we’ve not
had a house of our own for
quite some time. We
completed our eight weeks of
missions training at the head-
quarters of New Mission
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Serving at the Center for Global Outreach • bblycker@nmsi.org
WINTER 2010
Merry Christmas!
Systems International (NMSI)
this summer, and we have
been actively engaged in
sharing our vision with others
since then. For more than 40
days, we tracked our Messiah
through 12 states. We fol-
lowed the fresh prints out of
churches and colleges and
into the streets. We saw Him
in the faces of people we
encountered along the way;
their stories testify that the
Kingdom of God is breaking
forth with a quiet power and
in extraordinary dimensions.
We felt Him in the beauty of
the northern scenery, in the
warm autumn colors and the
chill of the early winter; this is
a God-enchanted world! We
followed Him into the cities,
the country and the small mid-
western towns. We bowed
before Him together, day after
day, when we heard the needs
of each person we met and
interceded on their behalf. It
has been humbling to learn
again that we are all on the
same side of the counter—the
illusion that some are blessed
to give and serve and some
are not is simply not true. We
are all called to bless and
AVE. STE. 7, FORT MYERS,
Angela and her West Michigan Writer’s Guild. She gave
the final commissioning speech at the Guild’s annual
October conference, Breathe: A Christian Writer’s
Workshop. www.breathconference.com
serve one another. We are all will be serving, influencing
in need of a Savior. and empowering women in
training and on the field to ful-
Along our journey of partner- fill their God-given potential
ship development, we have through researching, writing,
noticed a pattern of re-occur- teaching and speaking. The
ring questions. Let us take a children will be befriending
moment here and offer clarity and learning from all who pass
to our vision: through from around the
Where exactly will you be world.
going to serve long-term?
Will you live on the campus
Ft. Myers, Florida! We’ll be at
of NMSI? We have been
the headquarters for NMSI,
living in furnished mission
the nucleus for global king-
housing, but this is not a per-
dom work which provides
manent arrangement for our
training, planning, support,
family. We are depending on
and services in order to
God to provide us with the
further the work of over 200
means to rent a house off
missionaries in 28 countries.
campus soon.
We’ll be going out on short-
term projects as needs arise How is your current financial
and funds are available. support and what are your
needs? We need to raise all
What is your purpose? To
our salary and ministry
train, care for and serve
expenses. Currently, we are at
missionaries! Ben will be
10% of our required monthly
responsible for maintaining
support level. We need indi-
and constructing the facilities,
viduals/families to give $35,
as well as facilitating work
$50 or $100 monthly pledges.
teams. NMSI owns one city
We would love to serve and
block, which includes our
expand the Kingdom with
administrative and training
you! This New Year, will you
building, as well as housing
join your stories with ours and
for all our missionaries in train-
ing and on furlough. Angela continued other side
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take one or more of these
monthly shares? We’ve
recently been challenged our-
selves with the life principle of
Dr. David Livingstone: “I will
place no value on anything I
have or may possess except
in relation to the Kingdom of
God. If anything I have will
advance the interest of that
Kingdom, it shall be given up
or kept: as by giving or keep-
ing it I shall most promote the
glory of Him to whom I owe
all my hopes for time and
eternity. May grace be given
to me to adhere to this.”
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This Christmas, may you
embrace the deep truth that
none of us are home yet. May
you be reminded that our
Savior became homeless that
we might become home-free.
And may you discover anew
that our greatest sense of
Our family hosting a lunch with our COAT missions training group this past sum-
home on earth is with God’s mer—Thailand, Zambia, Germany and Honduras were represented.
people, for He dwells among
us.
We continue in our specific
prayers for you.
Merry Christmas!
Because of Grace,
Ben, Angela, Lars, Anders
Angela and Kiersta seeing the Blue Ridge Mountains for the first time as we travel
& Kiersta north.
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