Category: Ministry

A path we all must walk

A path we all must walk

Ian will be going to Mexico this month as part of a team gathering stories and photos for NTM@work magazine. So we wanted to share this article about a people group in Mexico that Ian wrote for NTM’s weekly email series. But wait, there’s more! Since Ian is going through San Diego, he’s going out […]
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Still a lot of work to do

Still a lot of work to do

Ten years ago, I had the opportunity to visit several tribal works in Papua New Guinea.There’s still a lot of work to do there, as this article I wrote for NTM’s email series makes clear … Ready to Teach; Who’ll Listen? How do you encourage people to come to foundational Bible lessons? They lack the […]
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Proofreading New Testaments

Proofreading New Testaments

Last week I took home seven books for Julie. Not just any books. Seven books from the New Testament translation for the Dom people of Papua New Guinea, so she could proofread them. And yesterday, I took her two more. She’s already worked through the Gospels. Here’s a story I wrote for the NTM weekly […]
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Core principles

Core principles

I’m surrounded. This week I’ve been at the NTM Missionary Training Center outside Camdenton, Missouri, at an international trainers forum. And I count it a privilege to be surrounded by people who equip missionaries in Bolivia and Colombia, the Philippines – even exotic, faraway places like Canada and the UK. This is in answer to […]
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So close …

So close …

Thousands of men, women and children hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan came perilously close to never getting the aid they needed. This came to light yesterday as I met with other New Tribes Mission USA leaders to discuss how we can better respond to future disasters. When the typhoon hit last November, NTM Aviation in […]
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Best Christmas ever!

Best Christmas ever!

Wow, what a haul! Take a gander at what Julie and I got this Christmas season: The opportunity to help more than local 100 needy teenagers have Christmas presents, through our church here, Covenant Community Church. The ability to provide (so far) the equivalent of meals for a week for eleven needy families in Nicaragua, […]
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Thank you!

Thank you!

“Thank you,” the typhoon survivor said over and over again, tears in his eyes. “Thank you.” To you. Yes, he was talking to you. Let me explain. The man wouldn’t stop shaking the hand of missionary pilot Zach Keller. He just stood there, smiling, crying, and saying, “Thank you.” A short time earlier, Zach had […]
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So what did you do today?

So what did you do today?

Monday and Tuesday of this week were great. We were in strategy and planning meetings all day both days, and made some good progress. Days full of meetings often seem busy but unproductive. However, it’s days like Monday and Tuesday that lay the groundwork for days like today. Today I worked on: Project: Kodiak airplane […]
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Good news edition

Good news edition

Good news on our vehicle With my daughter and her family here from China for the summer, and our only vehicle being a 2-door subcompact, we had a problem. God provided through friends at church for them to rent a car for the summer. Thank you, folks, and thank you, Lord. This means that all […]
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Back safely

Back safely

We arrived back in Florida late Sunday night. There were no new issues with the car. We just got a few more laughs out of the windshield wipers. Trying to get them to stop at the bottom of the windshield reminded me a bit of playing pinball – which I have never been particularly good […]
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