David and Kristia Abbott your connection to tribal missions
Katrina with one of her many friends at the Senior Banquet.
I am finally down to my last few weeks of classes at New Tribes Bible Institute. I can hardly believe that I have been here for almost two years. The time has really flown by!
People have started asking me what some of the biggest things are that God has been teaching me over my time here at school.
Katrina with friends at NTBI
This semester has been so good. God has been teaching me so much both in class and outside. I’m also making plans for next year.
Through Revelation class God taught me who Christ is to believers and unbelievers. In His first coming He came as a servant and loving Savior, but in His second coming He will come as a Judge, Warrior and Mighty King.
This is a video our department recently produced about the Bible school where our daughter Katrina has started her missionary training. If you’d like to see more about the school or download the video visit: http://ntbi.org/current_students/videos
Katrina at the beach in Florida on Christmas break.
My junior semester at New Tribes Bible Institute was pretty difficult. I struggled with heavy depression among other things. I found it difficult to think, but I was very sure of the goodness and closeness of my great God who in Hebrews 13:5 promises to never leave us or forsake us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
