How Do You Spell-Check In A Previously Unwritten Language?

March 13, 2018

There is a saying, “How do you eat an elephant?” to which the answer is “one bite at a time.” Similarly the answer to: “How do you spell-check in a previously unwritten language?” is simply “one word at a time.” After completing a recent translation revision it was time for a spell-check. Spell-checking is one […]

Pray For Bible Teaching In Simbari

February 24, 2018

We have exciting news to share about two Creation to Christ Bible classes and one literacy class that just began yesterday. The Simbari church is doing this as a ministry to the community. There are 20 adults in one study, 12 at another and 20 in literacy, and even more kids. They are meeting in […]

4000 Verses Comprehension Checked

December 22, 2017

Merry Christmas from the Oggs in Papua New Guinea Dear Friends, We want to express our gratitude to the Lord for each one of you and let you know how thankful we are to have you as partners in this vital ministry of bringing God’s Word to the Simbari people. We hope you have a […]

75 Year Celebration

October 21, 2017

Ethnos360 is celebrating 75 years of God’s faithfulness as an organization. We are humbled to be a part of taking the Gospel to an unreached people group, the Simbari. We are thankful for your partnership that has made it possible for the Simbari people to hear the message of God’s love shown through His Son […]

Thankful Translation Helper

May 16, 2017

Return to Papua New Guinea David has been drafting portions of the Old Testament and is on the last chapter of the book of Genesis. Now we are just a couple weeks away from returning to Papua New Guinea. We are thankful for the time we have had here to be with our family, friends […]

Name Change – New Tribes Mission is now Ethnos360

May 11, 2017

As we celebrate 75 years since NTM was founded, we’re excited at what God has done and continues to do in missions around the world. We’re also excited to share that our mission has a new name. We are now Ethnos360. Below is an explanation from our leadership concerning the vision behind our new name. […]

Merry Christmas from the Oggs

December 23, 2016

Warm Greetings this Christmas from the Ogg Family to your family. Merry Christmas 2017 from the Oggs from David & Shari Ogg on Vimeo. Please pray for the Simbari church to continue to shine the Light of Jesus to those around them. Love, David and Shari Ogg and family

Ellen’s Testimony

August 23, 2016

We recently received an audio recording from a Simbari believer named Ellen. She was full of emotion as she shared these words which we just finished translating from Simbari into English. My name is Ellen and I’m going to share my testimony with you. Very good. When I was young and my mother and father […]

Preliminary Draft Of Simbari New Testament Complete!

April 30, 2016

Preliminary Simbari Translation draft complete! We are excited to report that David just completed the preliminary draft of the Simbari New Testament! (We started this translation draft about 13 years ago) Note the word, “Preliminary” which means the most difficult step of the process is complete but there are still many rigorous proofing and checking […]

Training, Translation And A Drone

March 18, 2016

Back in January a friend’s drone captured some aerial shots of our tribe. In the above photo is our airstrip with the mission plane on the ground in front of our bush house and the tribal church building just across from the plane. At this stage, with the church becoming more mature we don’t live […]