My Website

Hello, due to the business of my schedule, I am going to be updating my New Tribes website www.ntm.org/amy_heckman. Please check there from now on for updates. For those of you that don't know God has used several things to redirect me to Mexico. Feel free to read all about it on the news section of my website. Thanks for your interest.

Traveling Around the South

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to share at a church in west central Florida. It was so neat to meet new people and visit with some that I already knew. It was also cool to share with them what God has been doing in my life, and in Mozambique, Africa. It was also an encouragement to see people who were interested in being a part of my support team. People who want to reach others with the gospel and do so by helping missionaries.

We recently celebrated my brother's 14th birthday. It is exciting to see God working in his life, and to see him growing up. My family and I also celebrated my birthday by going to a rodeo. We brought along a few friends, and had a great time. We also got to wander around the fair afterwards.

For the half time show they had little monkeys riding dogs hearding rams. They were fun to watch.

Mom and I recently took a trip to Alabama to surprise my Grandma for her 80th birthday. We had a wonderful time with her and my Uncle, Aunt, and cousins. To complete the surprise my Mom's brothers came down on the weekend. It's been quite a while since Grandma and all her children were together at one time. We had a wonderful party for Grandma, and some of her friends came over for it. Even though she guessed that my Uncles were coming, it was still a great time.

My adorable cousins eating and cooking.

We played games, visited, and enjoyed the time together celebrating Grandma's birthday.

This past weekend we took our youth group up to Georgia for Dare 2 Share. This is a program that gets teens excited about the Gospel, teaches them to share it clearly, and sends them out to practice sharing while collecting food for a local charity.

We even saw snow Saturday morning. We had lots of fun riding in the vans for hours. Notice the guy in the back. We also had lots of fun and fellowship throughout the entire trip.

We had a great time, and it was a big encouragement to me to continue pressing on, and to remember why I'm working hard to develop a good strong support team, before heading to the field, to help spread the Gospel.

The Past Several Months

If you've read the news on my new website, then sorry if there is repetition. However, here is a summary of what I've been up to the past few months.

I took a trip to Michigan for Thanksgiving and had some great opportunities to share with friends and a church about Mozambique. I also had the priveledge of being in a dear friend's wedding. It was a wonderful and memorable trip.

I returned to Florida, and landed right in the rush of the holiday season. Though we were very busy as a family we had a very good time spending Christmas together with everyone including Brett and Debby,my aunt, uncle, and cousin, as well as a friend of ours from the NTM Headquarters.

For New Years we went down to spend it with my grandparents, uncle, aunt, and cousins, in Southern Florida. On the way down we spent the night at Debby and Brett's and in the morning before we left, they told us that she is pregnant, and due in September. Needless to say I'm very excited to be an aunt!

Now that the busy schedule has settled down a bit, I've been working on getting my paperwork ready for going to Brazil (so I can learn Portuguese for about a year before heading to Mozambique), working with our MK youth group, and trying to plan out my time and travels before heading to Brazil.

So that's what I've been up to, and I will work harder to keep this updated! :)
Have a great day.