An Unexpected Motocross Adventure

July 5, 2017

My road trip to get to the interior location for the second translation check turned out to be much more of an adventure than I expected! The first 2-3 hours after leaving the city at 4 a.m. was fine, but the farther interior we came, the narrower the roads got. We had one near-miss with […]

NTM Reveals our new name, Ethnos360!

May 1, 2017

Yes, you read that correctly. After 75 years under the NTM moniker, on April 28th our leadership at New Tribes Mission announced a new name for our organization, “Ethnos360”. It has been obvious for quite a while that a change was necessary due to the perception created by our former name. Here is a brief […]

Down Under and Tugutil translation progress

March 14, 2017

Going Down Under! Despite living in the Asia-Pacific region for a couple of decades, Debbie and I had never made it to Australia. Well, in mid-January we finally had a good reason to make our first trip ‘down under,’ since the Translation Committee and other mission leaders and consultants were gathering there to discuss Bible […]

Printing Up a Storm!

July 28, 2016

We couldn’t resist sharing a few photos of our home office which has become a veritable print shop recently. Each stack of paper on our floor is one book of the Tugutil Bible, most of which are complete books. All of the Old Testament portions which NTM recommends to be translated for the chronological Bible […]

May 2016

June 6, 2016

Bob’s last trip, which he just returned from April 29th, took him to two countries and four language groups. During that trip a total of 3,378 verses of Scripture were checked and approved for printing in those four languages. The first leg of his trip was in a country he had never visited before, and […]

Fall 2015 Trip to Asia-Pacific

May 22, 2015

Translation Workshop After arriving in the Asia-Pacific region last month, Bob had the privilege of helping train a missionary couple as they start a new phase in their ministry, that of Bible translation. Their team has just recently taught foundational Bible lessons to the people group among whom they serve, and there are now a […]

News from our kids

September 9, 2014

Stephen will be heading overseas in service to his country toward the end of the month. He will probably be gone for at least six months. This will be a long time for his family to be without him. Please pray for the whole family as they go through this time of separation, for safety […]

The Spice Islands Sampler, Fall 2013

November 19, 2013

It’s great to be home again after completing a long Fall ‘tour’ of the Asia Pacific region, during which over 2,000 more verses of God’s Word were checked and approved. Since we know that God’s Word powerfully works in the lives of those who read it, we can confidently say that the churches in each […]

Summer 2013

July 9, 2013

MINISTRY New Tribes Mission Asia-Pacific In April and May I helped lead a workshop here in Florida that was attended by about a dozen Bible translators who work in nearly that many countries around the world. Each of us who were consultants worked closely with the translators as we worked through translation issues faced in […]

May 2012 Update

August 30, 2012

May 2012 Warm Spring greetings from Florida, Two weeks ago I returned home once again from the country where the Lord has given us a ministry since 1990. Due to security reasons, we are no longer using the name of the country in updates or other correspondence, but instead will refer to it […]