David and Kristia Abbott your connection to tribal missions Missionary blog upgrade complete
Our co-workers are face-to-face with unreached people groups. We help them communicate effectively.
Since the latest release of missionary blogs for New Tribes Mission members in mid-January missionaries have made well over 200 blog posts. New Tribes missionaries are making these posts from missionary training or partnership development scattered across North America and Europe to steaming cities in Africa or the jungles of Southeast Asia and Latin America.
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Thank you from our co-workers
David overlooking rice terraces in the Philippines.
These are some things David’s co-workers have been saying about his ministry in the last few weeks. If you partner with us, then these notes of appreciation are for you too.
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Car and dental emergencies not unexpected
In spite of two major vehicle repairs and expensive dental work, our family had an outstanding Christmas holiday.
Fishin’ Photos from Facebook
A redfish caught while kayak fishing January 28, 2012.
I’m sure you’d like to see my Fishing photos, but the main purpose of making this post is to test a WordPress plugin we just added called FB Photo Fetcher that imports Facebook albums to blogs so New Tribes missionaries only have to upload their photos once in order to share them with their ministry partners.
Tags: central florida fishing, central florida kayak fishing, central florida surf fishing, WordPress
Yagaria friend receives unexpected gift
Bara (left) with his Christmas camp group
Bara and I met a few years ago when the Yagaria Bible translation was being dedicated. He subscribes to NTM email lists and is a friend of New Tribes Mission on Facebook. Since then we have communicated through email and a few brief telephone calls. Bara and his family made a special effort to see Katrina when she was in Papua New Guinea for the Interface college-level missions course.
Tags: chronological teaching, firm foundations, new tribes mission, ntm
Thankful for a dentist
I’ve been putting off a trip to the dentist for at least two years. Every time I’d bite on something hard on my right side I’d go through the roof.
We really didn’t have the money before, but God provided it through our generous ministry partners last month.
Praise God for good dental care and His provision to pay for it after the long wait!
WISC-IV Test Today
Savannah is very gifted in many areas like science and art. In some other subjects she is very inconsistent.
Her teachers would like to have a better idea what might be causing the inconsistent performance.
Please pray that the results of the testing Savannah has today will help Savannah and her teachers be more successful.
Working on Saturday
I’m working on the couch from home and not feeling too great today.
Normally I would be doing something restful, but we need to get a report finished for a missions committee and work on a mailing list.
It has also been far too long since we updated our donors and prayer partners about the great things God has been doing to meet our needs.
David and Kristia’s status for today
Today David is continuing to work on the myMinistry blog migration and upgrade. We released the blogs to all NTM missionaries on Friday but there are several things that still need to be fixed before the blogs are fully functional.
We fixed the post-by-email feature over the weekend and hope to have the photo galleries working properly today. We’d also like to get started on fixing the new blog creation process.
Kristia is at BSF this morning and Caleb and Savannah are both doing their school work. Kristia will pick them up today because David has a meeting until 9:00 pm.
