Because there are so many aspects to reaching tribal people, it takes a team of people with different skills and talents to effectively reach them.
How do you set up a writing system for an unwritten language? Set up a program to teach the people to read? Learn the language — without any language course material? Translate the scriptures….and a hundred other things?
NTM has put a high priority on getting timely help to our church planting teams at every stage of the church planting effort.
Our ministry in the Field Ministries Office is responsible for assisting in the development and coordination of consultants and materials to help in linguistics, culture and language learning, literacy, Bible translation and church planting.