David and Kristia Abbott your connection to tribal missions A really hard time
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.
Tags: missionary training, new tribes bible institute, ntbi, waukesha
Discipleship is Multiplying
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.
Tags: chronological teaching, discipleship, firm foundations, new tribes mission, ntm
Katrina’s third semester at New Tribes Bible Institute
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.
Tags: missionary training, new tribes bible institute, ntbi, waukesha
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.”
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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?
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