NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

   “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.

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     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.

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     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

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     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.

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     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?

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“…One man gave clear testimony. His name is Itiringke, and God is doing a work in his heart. He is one of the leaders in the village, so his words carry weight. (Last) Friday the people held a graduation service for 30 graduates of the literacy class (Praise God!) and after the ceremony he got up and shared something with tears in his eyes.

     “He told everyone that God has displayed His power in (Itiringke’s) life, because now not only can he read but is also a teacher in literacy as well.

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     A missionary left on home assignment; while he was gone, the tribal group he worked in chose a new leader. Shortly after the missionary returned, the new “mayor” announced that he would be kicking the family out of the tribe. What on earth could the problem be?

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     “Is there a cure for my sin?”

     This was the question posed to teacher Aaron Hefner by a Jalunga man. When Aaron began to explain to him the “cure”, the man’s eyes grew wide.

     He had never heard any talk like this before, he said.

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