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March 2013
Dear Friend,
Exciting things are happening here at the Narramore Christian Foundation! The new counseling center for missionaries from throughout Eurasia is on schedule to be opened next fall. My wife, Kathy, and I will be saying goodbye to the founding directors tomorrow morning, before they leave the U.S. to begin language study, find a building to lease, and work on the myriad of details necessary to bring this vision to reality.
Now to the Philippines. This morning we will be mailing the vitas and graduate school transcripts of seven U.S. based faculty who will be teaching in the doctoral program in counseling in Manila to the Dean of the Asia Graduate School of Theology. She will then include all of those materials in the application she must submit to the appropriate government oversight committees.
I already sent my draft of a statement of need and our philosophy of education for the program. And NCF associate, Dr. Bill Kirwan is emailing and Skypeing back and forth to Manila regarding governmental approval of the program, admission and selections of students, details of the curriculum, finances, and the selection of national faculty and administrators to work with us. Our goal is to help a third group of students complete their doctorates, and by involving them in team teaching and administration, prepare them to operate the program in the future with only minimal assistance from those of us in the U.S.
At the same time, we are exploring the possibility of offering our annual Member Care and Counseling Seminar for missionaries in Eurasia instead of Thailand this coming fall. If we can work that out, we will offer the seminar in conjunction with the opening of the new counseling center for missionaries. That will be a great way to let missionaries throughout that region learn about the center and how the staff can serve them and their agencies. Since we have never offered a seminar there, we are busy locating a potential facility that will work well to house and feed our participants and provide the kind of space we need for the seminar. The costs will be higher than those in Thailand and we don’t have a team of people assisting us like we do in Thailand. But it looks like we will be able to organize and offer this much-needed training that has been life changing for so many missionary families throughout Southeast Asia.
While all of this is going on, we are also in the middle of planning for this year’s MK Reentry Program for the sons and daughters of missionaries as well as carrying on our usual correspondence, literature and internet ministries. Thanks to your prayers and support, we have now trained over 2,000 MKs!
Your partnership in our ministries is helping us make a difference in many lives around the world.
Gratefully in Christ,
Bruce Narramore, Ph.D.
President
P.S. Our financial support has been down this past year and our expenses are going to be higher for several of these ministries. Please do all you can this month to help us continue and expand these life-changing ministries.
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