Category: New Tribes Mission

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Looking for Partnerships

As we look excitedly to what God is doing, we cannot help but thank God for what He has already done. We can see how He has used His body of Christ to keep us moving forward through prayer, encouragement, and financial support.  To accomplish His task it takes a unified joint effort from a team.  We are incredibly thankful to those has already partnered with us and look forward to seeing the team grow.

Here are our current prayer and financial needs:

  • Need to raise $10,000 for our last phase of training with New Tribes Mission.
    (current status 45% raised)

  • Need to raise our monthly support level to $3000 per month. (current status 20% raised)

  • Need to raise $7000 to head to Papua New Guinea in October to help run summer camp for MKs there stationed there.
    (current status 0% raised)

The fact is, we need to raise a lot of funds and are looking to the Lord to do so through His body of Christ.  If you, or someone you know, are interested in more information about partnering with the team or would like to financially supporting us, please connect and let us know.  We would love to meet with you and share the vision.

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What it’s all about?…

What we desire to make clear is our motivation in this ministry.  As we study scripture we see that God has a plan and vision for the world.  This plan is the greatest calling to our lives.  His plan is to reach every tribe, tongue, and nation with the Gospel and to make disciples.  That is what we desire to be about.  As we look to what God is doing, we believe He has given us an awareness into the fact that caring and supporting missionary families is vital and is part of our responsibilities as the body of Christ.

Support roles in the missions community are incredibly important.  To keep a missionary family in a tribe, with the resources and time it takes to study and understand a language/culture enough to translate the bible, takes many hands.  It typical takes 6 support missionaries to keep one missionary in the tribe.  Support roles include pilots, teachers, doctors, accountants, supply buyers, trainers, IT techs, MK caregivers, and SO much more.  I recently heard a story from a missionary pilot who explained how he fit into the puzzle.  He flew supplies into a tribal village where there was a missionary team working on the bible translation.
As the pilot stopped into the hut “office” of one of the translators, the translator asked the pilot what he was up to today. “oh… just flying around making the delivery rounds” he said. 
“Nope!” said the translator.  “You are translating Romans 3:3 today!”  How true!  By doing what God has called him to do, that missionary pilot was part of the team that was bringing the gospel to a remote tribe.  Praise God!  That is what we want to be a part of and want to get others on board with.

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Ministry Moment: Summer ’12

We have been incredibly encouraged as we watched God faithfully guide us this last year.  The journey that He has placed us on has been very unconventional and has kept us out of our comfort zones.  As we think back on the last three months, we are thankful that we had the opportunity to be a part of three different Missionary Kid (MK) retreat events; a college MK Winter Retreat in Indiana in which we brought 25 MKs from NTBI, a college MK Summer Retreat in Pennsylvania for New Tribes own MKs, and a MK Transition Seminar with Barnabas International at Biola University.

    

We had a blast at all three and are grateful for the opportunity.  We were also very encouraged by great meetings and conversations with New Tribes leadership as to were we can fit into the mission after we finish training.  The current vision and plans for this developing ministry excite us.  There are many great ideas brewing and we cannot wait to see what God has in store.

Here are a few highlights:

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Wayumi – Tribal Church-Planting

Bree and I were given the opportunity to take a tribal church-planting course called Wayumi in Pennsylvania this spring break.  It is a program that New Tribes Mission (NTM) has created that allows college-aged students to get an inside look into what it takes to take the gospel into the unreached world.   The fact is that out of the 6900+ languages in the world, there is still 2100+ that do not even have a single word of the bible translated into their own language.  All while we in America have 200+ different English translations to choose from.

During our week-long training, we took classes on the different steps that NTM missionaries take when they reach a unreached people group such as: pre-field training (this is where Bree and I are now), moving to the country, National language and culture acquisition, moving into a tribe, tribal language and culture acquisition, literacy, translation, teaching/evangelism, church leadership, and finally establishing a self-sustaining church.  This can take 10-25 years to take place.   Along with the classes, we also had a blast sleeping in hammocks in jungle camp, preparing a traditional Papua New Guinea meal called a MuMu, and practicing phonetics in mock Venezuelan tribes. (Yanomamo and Joti)

        

All in all, this was a fantastic week in which we walked away completely refocused.  I wish many others could take this course because you cannot take it and walk away the same.

If you are at all interested – check out their website or Facebook page.

See the rest of our trip pictures HERE!