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A Challenge to March On.

It’s been a week since we returned from Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, and our minds are still whirling from all we saw and experienced.  You may be wondering what some place in Pennsylvania has to do with tribal missions.  In this unlikely place we gained the best information we could have ever gotten in preparation for creating the program here in Missouri to challenge people to get involved in tribal missions.  After experiencing it for ourselves, we knew this group of NTM missionaries have their finger on the pulse of what it looks like to really show people the challenges and joy of reaching a group of tribal people with the gospel.

Hugely important was the fact that we were able to go out a few days early to spend some time with the leadership to talk through how they built and structure their program and their philosophy behind what they do.

Over the course of the weekend, we watched the 70 other people who had come to participate in the program from all over the Northeastern U.S. absolutely amazed at what it takes to see the gospel presented and a solid mature church established amongst a group of tribal people.  Many walked away challenged in their own walks with the Lord as they were faced with statistics like there are still over 4000 language groups with no part of God’s Word written in their language, when we have over 200 different versions of the Bible in English.  We saw them enter the indoor, authentic, Yanomami tribal setting and come face to face with the difficulty of living in a place where the language and culture are totally different from their own.

Seeing the impact of the weekend in those people did one thing ESPECIALLY for us, we are even more convinced that the ministry the Lord has laid on our hearts in exposing and challenging people to get involved in reaching the unreached is something we are pumped about doing, AND it confirmed the fact that we need to start this here in the Midwest as well.

Check out the video below to get a taste of our weekend and what we hope to recreate in Missouri.

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