{"id":217,"date":"2016-05-06T23:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T04:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/?p=217"},"modified":"2016-05-07T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T04:24:50","slug":"then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Then… and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Then-Now<\/a>THEN\u00a0(1980s) AND NOW (2016)<\/span><\/p>\n

A LOT HAS CHANGED.<\/strong> (Well, besides the fact that we are a\u00a0little bit\u00a0<\/em>older…)<\/p>\n

THEN:<\/strong> For 33 years, it was easy to explain our ministry: Bill and Donna? Oh yeah,\u00a0PALAWAN.<\/em> We lived and ministered\u00a0on Palawan. We worked with the Palawanos (we were palawano.com<\/em>, for goodness’ sake!) We were translating the Palawano New Testament. It was easy for people to “get” what we were all about. And when people thought of us, they thought of Palawan, Palawanos and translation. Simple.<\/p>\n

NOW:<\/strong>\u00a0We’re all over the place. Lots of different countries. Various projects. We even have to be cryptic about where we are going sometimes for the safety of the missionaries there. Since our ministry is not tied to one location or one people group, it’s harder to get a handle on… especially for many\u00a0who have had “Bill & Donna = Palawano” in their minds all this time.<\/p>\n

Basically, we are helping lots of missionaries to do what we did.<\/p>\n

We had to learn Palawano on our own (there’s no Rosetta Stone<\/em> language course for languages like that.) And other missionaries who want to reach other Unreached People Groups have to do the same kind of language learning. It’s hard! So we’re teaching them how to do it. And many of the missionaries we get to train are non-Western missionaries: Asians from many countries, and (soon) Latin Americans and Africans.<\/p>\n

WHAT HAS NOT CHANGED:<\/strong> We’re still with New Tribes Mission, still passionate about seeing Unreached People Groups like the Palawanos reached for Christ. But instead of reaching one people group, now we are a part of reaching many groups as we train others all around the world. It’s a big ministry with many challenges in terms of travel, budget, health and strength, as well as the often\u00a0daunting task of figuring out how best to train missionaries from such a diverse range of cultures.<\/p>\n

We need your prayers more that ever. We need others like you to\u00a0join our team, as well. So many people groups around the world are waiting to hear the Gospel in their Heart Language. We’re doing all we can\u00a0to reach those people groups\u00a0by training missionaries to learn their languages in order to reach them with a clearly-communicated message.<\/p>\n

This weekend\u00a0were asked to shared at the Missions Moment in a church who have been partnering with our ministry for nearly 20 years. So we took the opportunity to make a one-page flyer explaining what we\u00a0did<\/em> “back then” and what we are\u00a0doing<\/em> now.<\/p>\n

We thought you might like to see our cool flyer. You can read it here (or click on it to open it\/save it.)<\/p>\n

Join our team. Pray for us. Let’s reach the world.<\/p>\n

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