Macon and Katy Hare Your Connection to Tribal Ministries Missionary Feet
http://blogs.ntm.org/john-george/2012/04/14/missionary-feet/
Not long after arriving in Papua New Guinea I began to notice a disturbing trend among a lot of other missionaries here, one of which I now refer to as “Missionary Feet.” What you need to know is that many people here simply don’t wear shoes, and if they do, 9 times out of 10 they wear flip-flops. So, as missionaries who want to relate to the people they minister to, it would just be impractical to sport the newest Nike styling as we hang out with our bare-footed friends…and super hot. Due to this, accompanied by other “life in the tropics” factors, my dogs…despite my best efforts, have now entered the ranks worthy of “missionary feet” status. My soles have gotten to be noticeably thicker…and stained (if not from plain ole dirt then from the fresh piles of buai spit I manage to step in on what seems to be a weekly basis,) infections that are now just a routine part of life now, and my latest adornment (or lack thereof) is the loss two toenails, one that [...]
The pig and the Bible translator
http://usa.ntm.org/field-news/the-pig-and-the-bible-translator
Only a permanent eviction prevented a disruption of the Siawi translation.
Leaving the Ordinary
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Simbari women scurry to their early morning tasks, wearing unique bark capes. Little girls, their smaller capes wrapped tight against the cold, follow closely. At an early age they are taught to be a good Simbari wife.Tags: Church planting, Papua New Guinea, Simbari, Tribal Church
Second Stories – Orlando’s Summit Church Moves North
I love new things (all except new towels—those are horrible and they don’t work right). But other than that, I love new things. I love using newly invented gadgets, or listening to a new type of music I have never heard before, or supporting organizations that think of increasingly creative ways to help people.
New things wake me up. They change my perspective. They help me see things, maybe the same things I have seen a million times, in a new way.
Jesus is into new things as well.
Healing someone who had never experienced a day fully able (John 5:1-18); going to, not running away from, people with dangerous illnesses (Mark 1:40-45); dining with those that didn’t have it all together and didn’t fit the mold for what godly people should look like (Luke 15:1-10).
These are all new things. These are echoes of a God who created the world and didn’t just walk away, but continues to make all things new. God is still in the business of setting things to right and sometimes He does that through something never seen or done before.
Jesus, in John 14:12, said to His disciples if you place your faith in Him you will be able to do greater things even than He did. I think that has everything to do with finding new and increasing ways to reach people with the life changing truth of who Jesus is. So, He says, “go to where good news needs to be taken because God can do extraordinary things in new places through new people with new callings.”
So this is it. We get the opportunity to launch another multi-site, which is incredible.
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COTTON CANDY Gods
If we could order a God at Starbucks we’d say, “I’d like mine to taste sweet and have no substance. And make it a small.”
http://www.vinceantonucci.com/2012/02/cotton-candy-gods.html
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Every Thing That Could Go Wrong…. | New Tribes Mission
When Jack Russell recently returned to a Simba village to translate more of God’s Word, he ran into more than the usual problems.
In fact, it took a couple of weeks before he was even able to let his friends and family know what was going on. “It took me awhile to get the radio email going,” he wrote. “Mice had gotten in and chewed through the wires. Also lightning had struck my antenna and it had fallen.”
A bus dropped Jack off in the village at 2 a.m. “I had to carry my stuff from the road, down across the creek, and then out across a field, then up the hill to my house. It was about 78 degrees and very muggy,” he wrote. Then it started raining, but at least that cooled things off.
He really wanted a shower after the long trip to the village and struggle to his house, but the water was off.
“So I got a machete and started cutting a path up to the water tank. It’s the middle of summer down here so the jungle had grown up a lot. Half an hour later I made it to the tank and got the water valve to the house open. But when I ran back down to the house I found I had a geyser.”
Jack settled for rinsing in the rain.
He decided that before he went to bed he should get the gas refrigerator going in order to keep the food he had brought in fresh.
“I got the bottle gas hooked up and it lit fine, but I thought I heard something and was crawling around the back for a closer look when – poof! The whole back suddenly burst into flames and there went all the hair from one arm. I rushed out and turned the gas off and decided I’d tackle that one in the morning.”
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