Archive for the ‘Ministry’ Category

New Firm Foundations class

Posted by David Abbott on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

David teaching Firm Foundations at CrossWay Church.

David has started teaching a third Firm Foundations: Creation to Christ class at CrossWay Church in Central Florida.  We’re calling the class Foundations 101.

You never know how many are going to show up for a new class, especially when it has been offered a few times before.  God seems to be continuing to draw people to CrossWay Church who have a limited understanding of the full Story of God.

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Duplicate Content on Site Stacker

Posted by David Abbott on Monday, May 7th, 2012

NTM-USA website powered by Site Stacker

Duplicate content is an issue on the Site Stacker content management system by WMtek.

Pray for David and the NTM Communications team as they process this issue and make decisions about how to approach it.

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Baptizing new believers

Posted by David Abbott on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Praise God that David and another CrossWay Church elder had the privilege of baptizing several new believers Sunday evening after giving clear testimonies of their faith in Christ alone. One was a lady Kristia has been discipling. Several of the others David had taught from Creation to Christ in a 25 week Foundations class he teaches on Sunday mornings.

What moderating a Facebook page looks like

Posted by David Abbott on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

This is what the New Tribes Mission Facebook page looks like.

One of David’s many communications privileges is to moderate the main Facebook page for New Tribes Mission. In case you’re not familiar with what moderating a page looks like, here’s a brief look.

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Fiduciary responsibility

Posted by David Abbott on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

The fields are still white for harvest.

Do you think that God depends on my “fiduciary responsibility” in order to accomplish His will?

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Is Church Membership Biblical?

Posted by David Abbott on Monday, March 5th, 2012

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.

Is Church Membership Biblical? from 9Marks.org

If you’re not online you don’t exist

Posted by David Abbott on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

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.”

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Missionary blog upgrade complete

Posted by David Abbott on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

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

Posted by David Abbott on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

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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Working on Saturday

Posted by David Abbott on Saturday, January 21st, 2012

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.