NTM - New Tribes Mission | Planting Tribal Churches

Hi, we are Ralf and Elli Schlegel with our 3 daughters Naomi, Rebekka and Mirjam.

We work in Papua New Guinea among the tribe of the Dinangat people.

2002 – Aug.     We came to PNG and lived in M. town learning the trade language Pidgin English

2003 – Jan.     First visit to the Dinangat people

2003 – Mar.   Started building our team houses in the tribe

2003 – Aug.   Moved into the tribe together with our co-workers the Smiths and the Markleys

2003 – Oct.    Started official language- and culture study of the Dinangat people

2007 – Apr.   First literacy class, teaching them to read and write in the mother tongue

2008 – Jan-May   Teaching for the first time chronologically from Creation to Christ

2010 – Jan-May   Believers from the S. village go to teach chronologically from Creation to Christ for the first time in neighboring village T.