David and Kristia Abbott your connection to tribal missions
Katrina watching a baptism in the Kalanguya tribe many years ago.
When we first moved to the flight center for the Northern Philippines our only connection to the internet was a hike down a steep and slippery slope to the road.
From there it was an hour public “jeepney” ride on a mostly dirt road to the next town where a motorcycle with a sidecar could be found.
Savannah’s birthday, a trip to the County Fair and processing a deer.
Katrina and Caleb in Wisconsin
Four of us set out on Tuesday afternoon, around 3:00, on a 24 hour journey to the New Tribes Bible Institute in Waukesha, Wisconsin. We arrived at the Bible School on Wednesday around 4:00. We were very happy to see everybody and everybody was very happy to see us. We hung out with people until dinner that night and played some volleyball and card games afterwards.
David working at the NTM home office.
David and his dwindling Communications team have three huge projects on their plates right now. He’s working with a company called WMtek to build a new intranet website for New Tribes Mission members.
Katrina and a friend from Florida who is also an NTBI student
The last few weeks have been a really dry time of learning for me. I sit in classes and want to learn and understand what the teachers are saying, but it seems no matter how hard I try and concentrate nothing is going in. I have been reading on my own in the mornings and as I read I see the truth of God’s Word, but thinking deeply about what its saying is hard to do.
Over the last three years David has been teaching Firm Foundations: Creation to Christ in several different venues. Kristia has also been teaching a few ladies one-on-one.
Because we understand that Jesus has called us to make disciples and not simply get people to “make decisions,” it is important to us that those we disciple not only come to biblical faith, but become obedient to start making disciples themselves.
Katrina is a Junior at New Tribes Bible Institute.
We have been going through some amazing classes at New Tribes Bible Institute this semester. I have gotten to take 2 Corinthians, Romans, Missions in Church History, James and Angelology.
Right now in Romans class we are going through verse by verse and learning about man’s desperate need for God, about how God provided the only way for man to be cleansed, and about our new life in Christ- our justification, sanctification and glorification.
Caleb is in his Junior year of High School.
Caleb’s assignment for English 3 was to write a response in Anne Bradstreet’s point of view to Hester Prynne. Hester has a daughter outside of marriage in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter.
Caleb is able to attend all his classes online through Florida Virtual School. This allows him to work part-time at David’s office and manage a website for a small real estate business.
David wants the website to help more people get involved in planting churches among unreached people groups.
Just five months after releasing the new website for New Tribes Mission USA our communications team has decided to abandon the Expression Engine platform it is built on and move to Site Stacker.
Two major factors have led us to this decision. The first and most significant is that the Communications team no longer has a web programmer on our team.
David replacing the lid switch on our washing machine.
Here’s something most Seminaries and Bible Colleges don’t teach but probably should, how to repair your own appliances. One missionary training course does incorporate physical work and practical skills — New Tribes Mission. It is called “campus ministry.”
