Wrapping up in Thailand

November 22, 2016

As you receive this, I will have wrapped up the last interviews and caught the final photo opportunities before heading back down to the big city. Saturday we took an eight-hour bus ride north from Chiang Mai to the very edge of Thailand in order to spend time with the team among the Prai people. Sunday morning […]

Still a lot of work to do

September 25, 2014

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 […]

Halfway there

November 12, 2012

This morning finds us in Dublin, Virginia, a little more than halfway to Pennsylvania, where I’ll take part in a conference Tuesday through Friday. For New Tribes Mission to play its role in completing the Great Commission in this generation, we need to send more people out to establish churches among unreached people groups. And […]

Not circumstances, but you and I

July 12, 2012

The people in the Mengen village were fascinated. They had never before seen or heard God’s Word in their own language. As they read Mark and Acts with Mengen believers from another village, something began to dawn on them. The villages in their area are doing well by the standards in Papua New Guinea. They […]

Student and teacher

May 25, 2011

Vicente, a student at NTM’s Bible school in Mexico, is teaching Bible lessons to his people, the Guarijios.

Piapocos teach, translate

April 10, 2011

Reinaldo, Silvio and Walter are presenting Bible lessons to their own people and revising the Piapoco New Testament.

It’s all brand new

March 17, 2011

Two Siar men who are helping prepare Bible lessons are amazed by what God’s Word says.

Caught in a trap

March 16, 2011

The Morop people say they have no future. But soon they'll hear about the One who died to give them a hope and a future.

Change her view of God

November 19, 2009

You don’t want to deny your kids opportunities, right? That’s why it troubled me so much to have to tell my youngest daughter we couldn’t help her. After a disastrous first year of college, she had to appeal to re-enroll this semester. Now she’s getting straight As. But Sunday she told us she needed $1,162 […]

How to die well

October 15, 2009

“I want my last weeks to have been spent on the front lines. I want my last days to have been spent commending Jesus to the unreached with a smile on my face no matter how much pain I may be in.”