One of the best aspects of working in the Communications Department is hearing and re-telling the stories of tribal people.
Every day, our inbox is filled with email messages from our NTM co-workers living in tribes around the world. Some of the messages are weekly, or sometimes daily, accounts of tribal people learning the true stories from God’s Word for the first time.
Every day, we get to read about people like Klara, a new believer in the Bagwido tribe in Papua New Guinea.
A couple weeks ago, Klara said, “I just am so happy about what Jesus, the Redeemer, did for my sin on the cross. He had to carry so much heavy and pain and sorrow and burden for me. My inner being just cries when I think of what He did for me."
"He cleaned my dirty inner being and my body of sin. He washed it away with his blood and He made me clean again. My inner being cannot stop thinking about this.”
Klara went on to say, “This morning as I fried my sago patty on the fire to eat, I just set it to the side. I could not even eat it because my belly is already so full of all of this good and true talk."
"Thank you and thank you! If these two (the missionaries) would not have come here, if these two would not have worked so hard to learn and understand my language, I would not be understanding this sweet and true talk. I am so happy about the free gift that Jesus gave to me."
Another NTM missionary recently wrote about finishing the final lesson of the chronological Bible teaching. After that lesson, the tribal people hugged and kissed the missionaries and shook their hands.
And over and over all the people were saying, “Thank you. Thank you so very much for coming to tell us this talk. If you guys would not have come, we would still be like pigs wandering around in the jungle looking for the next meal (looking for the road to God). Thank you so much for listening to God and leaving your family to come live with us."
Every day, as we read these stories and pass them on to others through the daily news bulletins, our passion is stoked. We are spurred on to continue in our part. People are hearing about their Redeemer and responding with joy and love and understanding.
God is mightily at work in tribes around the world. It is exciting to be a part of it!
As we once heard an evangelist say, “If that doesn’t light your fire, your wood’s wet!”
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