"Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I, send me.

These where the words of the Lord to Isaiah, and his response to the Lord's call, as documented in chapter 6 of Isaiah. This man knew not what this would mean for his life at that time, yet he was willing to go wherever the Lord would send him, and he was willing to be an obedient servant.

I must regret we have been a little lax in updating this blog regularly and hope to do a better job of that in the coming months. However, as we have been going through the missionary training here in Missouri we have been seeking the Lord as to where He would send us.

Through God's direction in prayer and communication with other missionary leadership we see God moving us in the way of serving with New Tribes Mission in Mexico. We applied to the Mexico field in January and are happy and excited to report that we heard back from the New Tribes Mission (NTM) Mexico leadership team in early February say that they had accepted our application!!

Some of you may be wondering, what does this mean? Essentially it means we are now considered as "Missionary Training students enroute to Mexico." So, once we complete our training here in Missouri at the MTC and raise the necessary financial support we will travel down to Chihuahua, Mexico to begin learning Spanish, and becoming accustomed to the Mexican culture.

This is all very exciting for us, and hopefully for you all too as you pray for us and God's ministry through us. We are planning to be done with all of our training, including Pete's extensive linguistics training here in Missouri around October of 2009 and Lord-willing with enough financial and prayer support we will be able to head to Mexico early 2010!!

Another exciting happening in the life of the Hypkis regarding Mexico is that Pete was able to take a trip to visit the NTM base, boarding school, and meet with the leadership down in Mexico this past February. The planning for the trip came up quickly, and Pete and a fellow student flew down on the 12th and stayed for 8 days. It was an amazing experience, Pete was able to see and get a feel first hand for the NTM field of Mexico, and was also able to visit a tribal location, meet the people, and experience life out there. After seeing the pictures when he returned we were even more convinced together that our hearts are burdened for this place, and yes, here we are Lord, send us!

If you would like to know more about Pete's trip a more lengthy article is posted on our NTM website www.ntm.org/peter_hypki

To finish up I have posted a few pictures below of Pete's adventures in Mexico, hope you enjoy and catch the vision with us for what God is doing and wants us to be apart of as we follow His leading to this wonderful country.

God bless!!

Pete & Liesl

A view of a city street in Chihuahua, Mexico

One of the classrooms at the Bible School in Chihuahua

One of the buildings designed with solar power energy out at the ranch where they do Missionary Training such as we are receiving here, but for Mexican nationals.

Pete enjoying the gorgeous scenery at a mountain stream high in the Sierra Madres. This was taken on their 11 hour trip out to the tribal location.

Arrival in the tribal location.

The stream and bridge behind some of the missionary homes.

Some of the tribal people outside of the church building

A little Tepehuan tribal boy

Pete and the guys hiked a deep canyon near the tribal village

Pete and Matt say goodbye as they get ready to board the plane to fly out of the tribal village back to Chihuahua to catch a bus that would take them to their flight in El Paso, TX.