David and Kristia Abbott your connection to tribal missions
David at his desk at the NTM Home Office.
As one of the pastors of CrossWay Church in Central Florida, biblical membership is one of the issues we had to wrestle with this last year. These are some thoughts on the subject posted on the 9Marks website by Pastor Matt Chandler from the Village Church in Dallas, Texas.
Our co-workers live in isolated villages among unreached people groups. We're helping them communicate effectively.
Helping missionaries communicate effectively has been one of our passions for over a decade. A co-worker conveyed recently his conversation with another missionary. The missionary had remarked to the department leader that he was not aware of the department’s services anymore. He said, “I looked online and could not find anything about you so I assumed your department no longer existed.”
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.
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.
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.
In spite of two major vehicle repairs and expensive dental work, our family had an outstanding Christmas holiday.
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.
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.
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!
