Change of Ministry

Greetings in the Lord’s name. Our hearts are full of gratitude for your participation in prayer for our family.

After having served the last twelve years as a South East Regional Representative, we are now changing ministries to work full time with the Brazilian NTM translation team. Our new department is called the Portuguese Language Resource. Since 1989 I have been involved in this work “on the side.” Just recently the main series that we translated in the early 90’s has been revised, so we hope to see this new series done for our Brazilian co-laborers. There are also hundreds of documents in English that will make the work of tribal church planting so much easier for the Portuguese speaker. So, we are back to helping full time the Brazilian missionaries.

Although we will continue to live here in Knoxville, our time in churches and colleges will be diminished but we will still have the same objective: Finding and encouraging folks to live wholeheartedly to reach the people groups who have never understood the message of the Word of God. We are so thankful to the Lord for the opportunity we have had of being a Representative.

The Lord has supplied once again for our June trip to Brazil. Gwen and I will care for my mom, and we hope to do a lot of corrections on the Volumes I and 2 (730 pages) of the series mentioned above. We would surely appreciate your intercession before the Lord as we do these two “things” that are always requiring the Lord’s wisdom and supply of health.

Yours in Christ Jesus,
Calvin and Gwen Taylor

 The Second Flight of the Tribesman- Arriving in Belem, Brazil on August 1, 1949.

Carl and Cora Taylor and their daughters Carleen and Beth (7 & 2), and son Calvin (5) arrived in Brazil ready to help reach the Unreached Tribes. Sixty years later we are all still at it. Dad is in glory, and Hudson, born in 1950, has taken his place. Dad was always speaking to the importance of a World Vision to every Christian he would meet. So our vision has increased and our hearts are stayed on the Lord for His Glory to be spoken of in all the world. Two thousand five hundred languages to go. Mom still passes that challenge on there in Peniel to pastors, believers, and new born babes in Christ. Peniel Bible College’s students are among them when visiting her up on the hill. She will get up and be bright eyed for anyone looking for encouragement.

It has been sixty years of partnership with those who have had the same vision and we thank the Lord for His love in giving us co-laborers, sacrificing year after year. Pastors have been faithful and their people encouraged to participate in all respects. Thank you dear ones. Herman Miller is one who has been at this with us since 1954.

My task the third week of September was a trip to Bryan College to represent NTM to the students.  On the 20th I travelled up to Lynchburg to do the same, but this time with my sister Carleen and her husband Ken Newton.  The Lord used Ken to challenge the Director of Missions while we were in college in the mid 60’s.

My dear Gwen needs prayer for her ministry of teaching each day at Berean Christian School. She accompanies me on some meetings like the one to Tennessee Temple University where they started the Next Steps program and the one we just returned from at Liberty U. during the third weekend of October, mentoring prospective missionaries. 

November 8-11 will be four days of intense ministry at a local church here in Knoxville. They have shown themselves to be disciples of the Lord in regards to missions. John and Barbara Windler from Paraguay will be there with us. Thank you for praying for us.

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Calvin and Gwen Taylor

In 1956 a property was given to New Tribes Mission of Brazil for the express purpose of training laborers to reach the tribal peoples of the world with the Good News. Fifty years later over 1400 laborers have been trained and 350 of these work with NTM of Brazil reaching 50 tribal groups in Brazil and in Africa. Others work with a multitude of mission boards and many are pastoring churches.

There was a youth camp in Peniel just a few days ago. Three hundred youth attended and were challenged to give their lives for reaching the unreached tribal groups around the world. Forty of these youth commited themselves to this task. Each of them will need a team of folks who will stand behind them, just as Gwen and I have had for the last 40 years. Each student will need to be a faithful partner to their churches just as the Apostles were to the church in Antioch.

God has now provided funds to purchase 14 Kodiak airplanes. The Quest Aircraft Company, designers of the Kodiak, received the certification on the airplane this past fall so the production has begun.  “Learn more about the Kodiak Project>>”