David and Kristia Abbott your connection to tribal missions
The first day of teaching among the North Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea.
On Monday the North Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea began hearing the Firm Foundations teaching from Creation to Christ. Our co-workers among the North Wahgi, Levi and Robyn Lenz, write, “… we saw God answer prayers in many ways.
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.
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.
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.
Deaths in Indonesia quake could have been avoided.
Just a few minutes before midnight on June 4, 2000 the Bengkulu Province in Sumatra, Indonesia was shaken by an earthquake that measured 7.3 on the Richter scale.
While the earthquake was only slightly stronger than many of the aftershocks of the recent earthquake in Japan, 1,386 houses were totally destroyed, 15,512 were heavily damaged while another 25,424 were lightly damaged.
Katrina standing on a frozen lake at the winter retreat in Indiana.
I’m back in the snow again and it is still beautiful! It’s been in the teens the last few days, but I’m still wearing skirts to class a few times a week. It’s been pretty easy to get back into the swing of things here at Bible School. I’ve been able to catch up with friends, get enough sleep and get back into homework in the afternoons.
