NEW TRIBES MISSION  |  planting tribal churches

Still being equipped
December 21st, 2010

Training doesn't stop when a missionary moves into a tribal village. full update >>

Help answer their questions
December 17th, 2009

Tribal people are asking to hear God's Word, and New Tribes Mission has a plan to answer them. Will you help? full update >>

Uriays learn to read
November 10th, 2009

Missionaries had to learn their language, figure out how to write it down, and then teach them to read it and write it. full update >>

'Don't stop now!"
August 27th, 2009

A Guarijio man was so caught up in the story he didn't want to stop translating. full update >>

A pink house?
June 11th, 2009

Noticing the color of the house in the tribal village is not difficult. But discovering the reasons may be tough, and could be important. full update >>

Boys to men
May 14th, 2009

Some Pai Tavy Tera families did not take part in recent initiation ceremonies because they have placed their faith in Christ. full update >>

No more doubts
April 9th, 2009

The Inanbimalis who have placed their faith in Christ have made a clear break from their old ways. full update >>

Planning move to Elseng village
March 10th, 2009

Years of preparation -- including specialized training -- went into even this early step of planting a church. full update >>

Working through a difficult translation
November 6th, 2008

The message of Romans is especially important, and writing it in a way that will make sense to the Tobo people seems almost opposite from the English translation. full update >>

Lolos understanding Bible teaching
October 2nd, 2008

What does it take to clearly communicate the Gospel to people who speak another language and filter everything through a different worldview? full update >>

Flying into the future, today
September 2nd, 2008

NTM missionaries are going into some of the most remote areas of the world. That's why they receive specialized training, and why the Kodiak airplane is needed. full update >>

Filling a jar precedes planting
July 29th, 2008

What exactly was going on in the garden? And how important is it to understanding the Southern Palawano culture? Missionaries will have to find out … full update >>

Caught red-handed
June 26th, 2008

Crime and punishment are different in other cultures, and working within the tribal culture helps build relationships. full update >>

Reading for the glory of God
May 29th, 2008

Six Mengen women are learning to read and write their own language. That may not sound like much, but it's a huge milestone. full update >>

Church planting is a long journey
April 17th, 2008

Missionaries compare the process to climbing Everest. Proper preparation is essential. full update >>

A cure for sin
March 14th, 2008

Many tribal people have never heard the Good News. New Tribes Mission's specialized training equips you to share God's Word with them. full update >>

Raphael is hungry
February 5th, 2008

An Akolet man has seen something he wants. He just doesn't know what it is yet. full update >>

Faith comes by hearing
January 4th, 2008

Why train and send missionaries, when you can just put all the lessons on an audio player? full update >>

Answering tough questions
December 4th, 2007

How can a missionary know what to say to new tribal believers, when even mature and wise believers disagree on what the Bible teaches? full update >>

Four-day window for one month's work
October 25th, 2007

Missionaries serving in rural areas of the Philippines depend on a supply buyer and others to provide them with provisions and necessary support. full update >>

God meets yet another need
September 27th, 2007

Lisa Kappeler was struggling to find an example of how the Uriays exhort one another, and God put her in the right place at the right time. full update >>

The lion sleeps tonight
July 19th, 2007

If the people you work among see a lion not as a physical threat, but as a spiritual problem, it affects how you present God’s Word. So it’s important to know the Bible and understand a people group’s culture so you know how to teach them. full update >>

Just the beginning
June 7th, 2007

Do you remember that feeling of wrestling with an important decision or making plans that would influence the direction of your life? It's a little stressful, isn't it? But it can also be exciting!

Right now that's the general feeling of the students who graduated a few weeks ago from the Missionary Training Center and New Tribes Bible Institutes. full update >>

Too thankful to pray
May 15th, 2007

You probably own more than one translation of the whole Bible in English. How much do you appreciate that? How well do you know what’s in it? And how would you translate it into another language? full update >>

She was dead before he helped her
April 19th, 2007

Even the best training in the world can’t prepare you for everything. But good training prepares you to learn more. That is why Andrew and Anne Marie Ferguson were as ready as they could be for a devastating lesson involving the death of a child. full update >>

Being prepared
March 22nd, 2007

Helping guests relax, recover or refresh takes a lot of work. Imagine trying to do that when it’s over 100 degrees. In a foreign land. Working with people whose language and ways you have to learn and adapt to. New Tribes Mission’s specialized training help prepare people like you for such vital logistical roles in church planting. full update >>

Passing the torch
February 22nd, 2007

What would it be like to live in darkness? Can you picture someone coming with a torch, bringing you into the light and then handing the torch to you, so you can carry on? That’s how the Pawaians of Papua New Guinea picture the ministry of Jack and Isa Douglas.

How cool would it be for you to be trained so you can have a ministry like that? full update >>

Reading the future
January 19th, 2007

It almost seems as if you and I have always been reading, doesn't it?

So it’s hard enough for us to picture what it would be like to teach a friend how to read. Can you even begin to imagine what it’s like to teach literacy to someone who has never even had an alphabet? full update >>

Translating the Word when words are lacking
November 15th, 2006

This week, the translations of Romans and Ephesians in the language of the Northern Tepehuan people of Mexico are moving one big step closer to completion. full update >>

Abaus see now
October 13th, 2006

Specialized training equipped missionaries Kelly and Sien Luyendyk to share God's Word with tribe in Papua New Guinea. full update >>

Grand opening
August 11th, 2006

Work on the Missionary Training Center is ongoing, but the first classes are under way. full update >>

Language-learning laughter
June 27th, 2006

Missionaries have a good and productive time gathering information about a tribal language, which they learned to do in NTM's specialized training. full update >>

Back on the one trail
May 26th, 2006

Specialized training prepared a missionary to address a problem that often arises in tribal church planting. full update >>

Trusting God
May 11th, 2006

Learning to pray and believe and trust God is at the heart of NTM's specialized missionary training. full update >>

The Word in Lauje words
April 27th, 2006

Translating not just words, but the Word of God, is one of many skills vital to planting churches among unreached people groups. So it’s part of the curriculum of New Tribes Mission’s training program. full update >>

A new approach to ministry
April 13th, 2006

Building relationships is the key to any ministry, so it's an important part of what people learn about in New Tribes Mission's specialized training for planting tribal churches. full update >>

Teaching God's Word clearly
March 30th, 2006

IN NTM's specialized training, missionaries learn how to present the Gospel in a way that is easily understood by tribal people. full update >>

And it wasn't even written before
March 16th, 2006

Missionaries don't just teach people how to read. They have to figure out how to write the languages in the first place. And NTM's specialized training prepares them to do so. full update >>

David places his faith in Christ
March 3rd, 2006

Because of NTM's specialized training, missionaries were able to clearly present the Gospel to the Mibu man, who had never before known the God of the Bible. full update >>

Breaking through barriers
February 15th, 2006

Missionaries confront not only cultural and language barriers, but mistrust and fear. That's why specialized training is so important in planting tribal churches. full update >>