A few months ago, Raymond Burkholder was scheduled to speak at a Family Enrichment Seminar in South Asia. However, due to disruptions in international travel related to tensions in the Middle East, his flights were canceled and he was unable to attend.

The church in South Asia had already secured the venue and completed much of the planning for the seminar. Rather than cancel the event, the local church leaders stepped forward and conducted the seminar themselves.

Group Photo: Family Enrichment Seminar in South Asia

God richly blessed their efforts. More than 100 participants attended, and the reports indicate that each session was spiritually encouraging and beneficial. The seminar proved to be a tremendous success.

This is exactly the vision of MTM in action: local churches equipped to minister effectively through local leadership, without dependence on foreign teachers or foreign funding. We rejoice in seeing God raise up faithful servants to carry on the work.?

To Christ alone be all the glory,
                    Stephen Burkholder

Photos taking during the Family Enrichment Conference

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Raymond & Naomi Burkholder Fall Ministry Tour Update

Human Extremity = Divine Opportunity:

As our ministry tour began to unfold beyond the early planning stages, it became evident there were forces of opposition at work behind the scenes. Naomi & I had been facing them from the beginning of 2025. We felt that we had mostly overcome them and were ready to move ahead on the discipleship journey, making disciples for Jesus Christ in obedience to God’s continuing call on our lives.

Both Vietnam Conferences were with Mennonite Brethren which includes Teaching, good Vietnamese food & fellowship

    We were ready to head off to Vietnam for our first two Godly Marriage & Family life Conferences along with MTM staff teacher Rich & Nicole Moore, when I was unexpectedly informed of a significant change to our plans. Due to unfortunate difficult circumstances, our guest teacher for the Odisha Leadership Training School (OLTS), formerly called Odisha Bible School (OBS), had to cancel and was unable to join us. This meant all teaching for this two-week Bible School was my responsibility.


?Our Vietnam Teaching & Leadership Team L-R Nicole & Rich Moore MTM staff teacher, Pastor David, Vietnam Coordinator, Jerry Keener, 20+ years Lancaster County Menn. Missionary to Vietnam, Raymond & Naomi Burkholder MTM Founder 

Click Here For A Photo Album of Both Vietnam Conferences – October 29 -November 7, 2025

    Due to the former oppositions and difficulties, we were not surprised when our Vietnam conferences also had trouble in the form of heavy rains and much flooding. This caused the second conference to be rescheduled and relocated. Furthermore, as we were wrapping up our second conference at Da Nang, we received news of a forth coming typhoon aimed straight at our region of Vietnam. Were we surprised? No, not really, but we knew we needed to depart Vietnam while we could and while airports were still operable. So, we changed our airline tickets and departed Vietnam two days earlier then before planned. We traveled on to India for the two-week leadership training conference at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. By now I knew God was up to something beyond the ordinary.

RKB DOING ALL THE TEACHING @ Odisha Leadership Training Seminar

This looked overwhelmingly huge to me until God so graciously reminded me that ‘Man’s Extremity is God’s Opportunity’! 

As Naomi & I arrived in Delhi before traveling on to Bhubaneswar, we met David Miller from PA, who was traveling with us in India to cast a personal vision for a lifetime of missionary work. In Bhubaneswar the OLTS committee met us with a very warm greeting and showers of love and reception. The last time we saw each other was two years ago at the OBS 2023 we participated in. I shared with them the challenge I was facing of being the only teacher. I suggested I could teach two different subjects – one in the morning and another subject in the afternoon. The committee unanimously suggested I stick with one subject, and they will pray that God will give me inspiration, revelation, health, and strength to teach the subject of be “Being Practically Prepared for Christ’s Second Coming” along with prophetic Biblical revelations.

Click Here For A Photo Album of the Odisha Leadership Training Seminar (formerly OBS) – November 10-21, 2025

Yes, 2025 has been a very difficult year for me and Naomi, but God confirmed to us on this past fall ministry tour that His calling on our lives of making disciples for Jesus among the Nations is far from finished. The preaching & teaching intensity of the fall ministry tour was beyond anything we ever experienced before. I taught 3 sessions daily with each session being 1.5 hours in length. God, by His Spirit, faithfully gave revelations and insightful new messages. He graciously provided me with perfect health, strength & energy to preach & teach those sessions for the duration of the Leadership Training School. All this truly was beyond my human ability. Blessed be God!!! Everyone knew it was God & not Raymond. During the last message at OLTS, most of the students responded to the call to seek God in preparation for Christ’s Second Coming. Blessed be God!!

MTM Seventh Annual Leadership Training Seminar Students @ Graduation Ceremony

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From Bhubaneswar we headed on to Berachah College (BIHER) in Himachal Pradesh, we are honored to be guest faculty. During their bi-annual Spiritual Enrichment week at the college, I previously only taught one 45-50 minute class per day. When Naomi & I arrived at the College, I was informed my schedule would be a morning class, an afternoon class, AND an evening class for 5 full days. Oh, yes, and the Sunday morning main message for the Berachah Church! Granted since all preaching and teaching at the college is in English and there is no need for an interpreter, my class sessions were only 35-45 minutes each. Once again, I was able to experience the grace and provision of my Lord Jesus Christ as He promises is in His Word:

Click Here for A Photo Album of our Spiritual Enrichment Week of Teaching @ BIHER College – November 24-28, 2025

Students & Faculty @ BIHER College

Ephesians 3:19-21,  And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. 

BLESSED BE GOD ALONE,

Raymond & Naomi Burkholder
        MTM Founder & Elder Teacher

Thank you to all of you who continue to walk with us as we put the Hope of the Gospel in action together.