NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

   ON TO THE NEXT STEP! 

   December 19th we graduated, tomorrow we are leaving the state, and the next year looks to be as busy as the last two! (more…)

   “Aaah.”

   “Haah.”

   Ninety-odd voices in our classroom resonated as we “learned to read” again – a part of the literacy training we recieved the past couple of weeks.

   We, along with our classmates, take our ability to read for granted and barely realize the impact it has on our relationship with the Lord. Just how important is it? Try not reading your Bible for a while… (more…)

   As Elijah walked into the cell block where inmates clustered around a TV, he caught a glance of the screen and groaned inwardly. It was already one of those days…

   He said, “Hey guys! You can come have a Bible study with me or go watch that trash somewhere else, okay?” (more…)

   In the past, missionaries from New Tribes Mission have spent years of their lives teaching topically and seeing little true harvest of souls.

   “Syncretism” is one of the deadly enemies of the missionary. It happens when people incorporate parts of the Gospel or other Scriptural truth into their existing belief system. Syncretism makes it possible for tribal people to pray, sing and meet in churches while still practicing voodoo, for example. (more…)

   “For strategic purposes, a people group is the largest group through which the Gospel can flow without encountering significant barriers of understanding and acceptance…” (Peoplegroups.org)

   According to the Joshua Project, the number of unreached people groups stands today at 6, 851 and numbers an astounding 40.4% of the world’s population.

   Basically, New Tribes Mission opens works amongst people groups where there is no known evangelical, indigineous church functioning that is capable of evangelizing the rest of their people. (more…)

     It seems the Lord is leading us in the direction of Latin America – Paraguay, to be exact. We thought you might like to read a few facts about the country and the type of work we would be involved in.

    Paraguay was originally home to seminomadic tribes recognized for their fierce traditions. (more…)

     A missionary recently visiting the training center we study at concluded sadly, “Finances are not the issue. There are so few who are willing to go and labour among those who have no Gospel presence.”

     Another spoke of hundreds of unreached people groups in his country, some numbering into the millions. There is a famine in their land – “not a famine of bread or water, but of hearing the words of the LORD” (Amos 8:11).

     Hundreds of tribal groups have requested missionaries to come and teach them. Some have waited for decades without a reply to their urgent questions about God. The local churches in many of these countries are asking for help, too (more…)

     In the small, cramped room sits a man dressed like one of the Dobu people of Papua New Guinea. Six of us are crowding around his “tribal house” meeting our “language helper” for the first time.

     It’s a little tense. (more…)

     A child learns to speak…first come the sparks of understanding as you look into their eyes and realize they are processing the information. Then comes the babbling, when you can tell that they are exactly sure what is is they’re saying, but it isn’t quite communicating right. Before you know it, their vocabulary expands exponentially and their pronounciation is nearly perfect.

     So what does this have to do with the method of language learning New Tribes Mission is teaching us?

     Do they REALLY want us to learn language like a kid does? (more…)