David and Kristia Abbott your connection to tribal missions Caleb’s response to The Scarlet Letter
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.
Expression Engine to Site Stacker
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.
Tags: expression engine, site stacker, wmtek
Appliance-ology for ministry
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.”
Tags: missionary training
Kristia teaching ladies
Kristia with Diana
I’ve been meeting with Janet for about three months now. At first we were covering one lesson each week. We’ve begun doing more lessons now because Janet has been so interested in moving ahead.
There are things that she has never heard before, like the fact that we are born separated from God and that we are not “all God’s children”.
Tags: chronological teaching, discipleship, firm foundations
Summer break almost over
Katrina and Caleb on a family hike in North Carolina.
When it was time to leave New Tribes Bible Institute and come back home for summer break I was really struggling with leaving friends, leaving classes and fearing that I would loose my desire to study God’s Word and that my relationship with God would fall apart.
Tags: new tribes bible institute, ntbi, waukesha
Twenty-one pieces of furniture and a few small appliances
Furniture accumulating on our back porch.
The beginning of the summer was marked by an ever-increasing pile of furniture on our back porch. Although David has some “red-neck” tendencies, excessive furniture outside the house is not one of them.
We returned to the USA from serving with NTM Aviation in the Philippines with suitcases. After a year-and-a-half of getting our medical needs addressed, we relocated to Central Florida …with suitcases.
Leading a person to Christ biblically
Paul Washer makes some though-provoking and unpopular statements about traditional methods of evangelism vs. biblical evangelism. You don’t want to listen to this unless you are really open to an honest evaluation of how you present the Gospel.
How did this message impact you?
Tags: discipleship
A note from Savannah’s teacher
Savannah
On the last day of Kindergarten classes, Savannah came home with the following note from her teacher. We thought these were exceptional words to be written about a six-year-old.
What do you think?
Classes are over but fun is not
Katrina with one of her friends on Spring Break
Classes have finished, but the fun certainly hasn’t! For two days after classes end New Tribes Bible Institute has work days.
We all get divided up into groups inside and outside to clean, do yard work and fix things. My job is washing, vacuuming and waxing the school vehicles. I get to work with one of my friends and we are having a great time together.
Tags: missionary training, new tribes bible institute, ntbi, waukesha
An over soaked sponge
Kristia and Katrina in Wisconsin during Spring Break.
This past semester has been super busy with reading and homework. As the time grew closer for Spring Break I started to feel like an over soaked sponge. It’s not that I didn’t want to focus on classes and continue learning. I just couldn’t retain any more information.
Tags: missionary training, new tribes bible institute, ntbi, waukesha
