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Several years ago our airplane flight program closed in a region in Asia Pacific. This left many people groups, who we hoped to reach with the Gospel, waiting until we could reopen with a helicopter program. Missionaries continue, as they are able, to make long and treacherous trips into villages where they are learning language […]

December is such a busy month here at the BI.  End of the semester projects, papers, and parties take priority on the calendar and decorating the school for the holiday is such a festive event, but a highlight for me is listening to our Memory class students recite God’s Word.  Chuck and Naomi, co-workers of […]

Dear Praying friends and family, What a privilege it is to serve alongside you!!! Psalm 145:3 “Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of praise! No one can measure his greatness.” Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before! What a gift it is to know HIM and get to walk alongside […]

It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything on our blog…if you want to receive our regular email updates, just email us and let us know at paul_swenson@ntm.org. Back in June we the Tanguat church Bible teachers and Derek and myself began our Creation to Christ teaching to two different villages who had never heard […]

The believers of Faith Bible Church in the Philippines just celebrated their sixth anniversary!  (This is an anniversary of the church building being built.)  They celebrated with singing, preaching, and eating.  They celebrated with one another.  They celebrated with guests and special speakers from two other churches.  And they celebrated without us, thus this was […]

 Towards the end of our missions training we were asked to come up with a 60 second explanation of what we would be doing, ours went like this: We enable church planting missionaries to live in villages in remote locations.  Many of the people groups still unreached with the gospel are in hard to reach […]

As promised in my last update, here is a more general field update about our need for support workers. The summary is that PNG needs support missionaries in order for church planting to happen, and there are lots of openings! New Tribes Mission in Papua New Guinea (NTM PNG) has church planting missionaries serving throughout […]

The Short-n-Sweet: Hi Friends, One step forward… one step back? While a lot has happened over the last few months since returning, we have not had much ‘forward’ movement and find ourselves in the very familiar situation of waiting on God’s direction. But, He has always given clarity at just the right time, every time. […]

“You crown the year with your goodness…” Ps. 65:11 Dear PRAYing family and friends, Some of the things we are very/most thankful to the Lord for this year are… our family, (most of us were able to be together this past summer) that my sister can fly out to spend a few days with us […]

We’ve been in the States for six months. By the time we fly back to PNG in a month, we’ll have slept in 16 different beds, spoken at 11 churches, visited many supporters, and lived in 3 different houses. We’ve been able to experience 3 of the 4 seasons and visit states from the east […]