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Phil & Debbie Robertson -- Your Wycliffe Missionaries
Updated June, 2008
What Would Happen ...
...in missions if all churches channeled all their resources, people, finances, and prayers exclusively to frontline missionaries? Bob Petzel, pastor for 37 years and now administrative dean at Victory Bible Institute, Greenville, SC asked that question in an article in the Nov 2005 issue of NTM@Work ISSN 1527-9057 Vol 64 No. 2. This is a possible headline for the scenario that came to his mind.
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MISSIONS WORLDWIDE SHUT DOWN
Missions organizations announced today that all church planting missionaries will have to leave their ministries and return to their home countries. The mass exodus is not caused by illness, or political upheaval or missionary "burnout", but is due to a decision of churches to support only "frontline" or "overseas" missionaries rather than "nonstrategic" support role missionaries.
As a result, there will be no computer techs available to keep computers
running for translation work, no office people to see that the missionary
gets his monthly check and no one to deal with the myriad of government
regulations the missionary needs to comply with. There will be no teachers in
the MK school, and no boarding home parents to care for the children while
parents labor in the tribe. Because there will be no instructors in the Bible
schools or missionary training centers no new missionaries will be able to help
plant tribal churches.
There will be no missionaries anywhere for churches to support and tribal groups will remain without the Gospel!
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About The Robertsons
Updated June, 2008. Phil works as a Wycliffe Personnel Administrator helping new missionary applicants become members of Wycliffe Bible Translators and then guiding new Wycliffe missionary members to the right assignment, as well as coordinating their training and partnership development so they can be fully prepared to depart to their field of assignment. More about Phil's work at Our Work Debbie serves by studying and teaching the Bible as the opportunity arises and helping with needs of her family. She is also currently an external student at Southern Evangelical Seminary and hopes to eventually earn a degree in Biblical Studies. More about Debbie at Debbie's Heart Brian lives and works in New York City as a IT Architect IBM. In his "spare time" he is also pursuing a Masters degree at NYU which he plans to complete this fall. Nathan finished his 5 year commitment in the US Army where he was part of the 82nd Airborne. He just completed a long, tiring, dangerous deployment in Afghanistan and arrived home in mid April. His wedding to Krista Bondurant of Waxhaw, NC on June 14, 2008 was a happy occasion. Pictures of the wedding and surrounding events can be viewed at the family photo page. Nate & Krista now live near Atlanta, GA where Nate will attend Atlanta Institute of Music - check out their website http://www.atlantainstituteofmusic.edu Check out Army and Nathan for some photos from the middle east. Noelle is working as a nanny, providing care for two small children in Charlotte, NC as well as planning for her wedding Sept. 27, 2008 to Brian Patterson of Charlotte. She is also continuing her studies in the evenings and on-line, preparing to become a para legal. She hopes to someday pursue a career in writing and is currently working on some poetry. See some of her work at Noelle's Stuff
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Serving in Mexico
We served in Oaxaca, Mexico for the Instituto Linguistico de Verano http://www.sil.org/mexico/ in the nineties and developed a real love for the land of Mexico and the indigenous people groups there, many of whom have no Bible in a language that they can understand. More about our work in Mexico at Oaxaca
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Family Photos
Glimpses of sillyness as well as some more serious moments can be seen through pictures featuring our grown children and others at Family Photos
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WordSpring
The WordSpring Discovery Center in Orlando, Florida is an exciting tribute to Bible translation and the impact of God’s Word on peoples’ hearts and lives.
Learn more
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2 Thessalonians 3:2, NLT
"Pray, too, that we will be saved from wicked and evil people, for not everyone believes in the Lord"
Daily Prayer Request
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