We are the Northcutt family heading to Arctic Siberia to begin a church-planting ministry among the indigenous Arctic people groups, beginning with the Evenki people.

Katie and I met in college and after 2 years we were married on June 23, 2007. On December 21, 2008, the Lord blessed us with our first child, Elliot Hudson.

Since our marriage, we have worked on staff at Ambassador Baptist College, served in various ministries of our local church, and are now in our ministry of full-time deputation. The Lord has burdened our hearts to reach the Arctic People of Siberia who have been largely ignored for most of missions history.

I was born into a military family in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where I was raised for most of my life. At the age of four I remember my Dad taking a Chick tract entitled “This Was Your Life” and showing me the plan of salvation through that tract. That night I realized that I was a sinner and accepted Christ as my Savior. At the age of eight, during a missions conference at our local church in Stafford, Virginia, God called me to serve Him fulltime on the mission field. That night I surrendered my life to go wherever and do whatever the Lord would have me to do.

From an early age I had always been interested in flying, and as the Lord continued to lead me into missions, I believed that the Lord wanted me to serve Him in the area of missions aviation. Therefore, at the age of fourteen I began taking flying lessons and at the age of seventeen I received my private pilot’s license. While I realize that my aviation training could be a great asset in Siberia, I do not feel that aviation is to be my main goal on the mission field. It is only a tool that the Lord can perhaps use to help further the Gospel.

In the fall of 2004, I entered Ambassador Baptist College to further my training for the mission field, but it was not until my sophomore year that the Lord began to work in my heart to take the Gospel where it had never before been preached. Through various events, the Lord opened the door for me to spend nine weeks in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, working with missionaries Kevin and Jessica Jones.

During my stay, the Lord led me north of Krasnoyarsk to the village of Tura, which is the capital of the autonomous district of the Evenki people. Though I was only with the Evenki for a short time, the Lord placed an immeasurable burden on my heart to return to those people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the call that God has placed on my life and it is up to me to be obedient to that call. If I don’t, who will?

The Lord led Katie and me together at the beginning of my sophomore year and after the end of my junior year, on June 23, 2007, we were joined in marriage. It is our desire to take the Gospel the Evenki people of Arctic Siberia, where there currently is no Gospel witness.

I was born and raised in a Christian home in Stratton, Maine, and have been active in the local church ever since I can remember. When I was about seven years old, after family devotions one morning, my mom showed me from the Bible that I was a sinner on my way to Hell and in need of the Lord to save me. Being so young, I do not remember too much about all of the specifics of that day, but I do remember calling out to the Lord and being saved. During my early teen years I struggled with the assurance of my salvation. I thought that maybe I was too young to really understand salvation or maybe I didn’t “pray the right words.” After talking with my mom and dad one night, I received assurance of my salvation. Since then I have claimed 1 John 1:9 as well as Romans 10:13, realizing that “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” and that “…He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Looking back on it now, I see that it is not the words of the prayer that are essential for salvation but faith in what Jesus Christ did for me on the cross. I am so thankful that the Lord has made the plan for salvation simple enough so that even a child can understand and believe in Jesus Christ.

In August 2002, the Lord led me to attend Ambassador Baptist College, where I majored in the Church Secretarial program. While at Ambassador, the Lord really worked in my heart and life in several ways. Even though I was raised in a Christian home and saved at an early age, I was still not completely surrendered to whatever the Lord would have me to do. I had my own plan and agenda for my life, but the Lord clearly showed me through His Word and the preaching at Ambassador that He had a perfect plan for my life, but I needed to surrender all to Him and seek to follow His leading. It is my desire now to serve the Lord in whatever capacity He leads my husband and me.