WORKING TOGETHER TO REACH THE TRIBES
New Tribes U.S. Headquarters is a busy place this time of year. We have many volunteers (Snowbirds) that have come to help us. Many of them are involved in the maintenance department: electricians, ground keepers, cabinet builders and finishers. I am especially grateful for the cabinet people- the more they do, the less I have to do. Once again, I get to work with Doctor Wally. He is eighty six years old this year and still going strong. I have to make sure the plywood gets cut into chucks he can manage, but he does most of the cabinet construction by himself. I then get to install the finished product. Most of our cabinet building is done in the three winter months that the volunteers are here.
Already this year, we have installed a number of new kitchens. One of the first ones we did was for a family working in the finance department. Mark, the husband, is in charge of that office making sure the money that comes in from churches and individuals for their missionaries gets into the right account and to the field fund on time each month. That will ensure that those missionaries working overseas will have the funds they need to do their job.
Another kitchen that we did this year was for a new family working in medical plan office. They help missionaries here and on the field understand the policies of the mission’s medical plan and file the claims they need to receive benefits from it.
Let me stress, we are not just building cabinets so that home staff can have a nicer kitchen. We are replacing particle board cabinets that were built over 30 years ago and Florida’s humidity has wrecked havoc on them. The Formica is often peeling and some have gotten so bad the particle board has turned into a pile of sawdust. However, when home staff families are happy they do their jobs better and a better job on this end can mean happy missionaries on the field and more efficacy in what they do. There are so many missionaries working on home staff in offices like I just mentioned who contribute to our goal of reaching unreached tribes with the Gospel. Can you imagine what would happen if there was no one on home staff in charge of making sure missionaries got their money, or of the donor receiving a receipt? What if an overseas missionary couldn’t get help with filing a medical claim, or translating the Bible, or they have a legal question, or . . . The list goes on and on and it is all done right here at the US headquarters.
Anyway, thank you for standing with us in prayer and with your financal gifts as we support our missionaries here and overseas by making sure the infurstruture of the mission works so that the missionaries in the tribes can do their work and see tribal people reached with the Gospel. 
Your Missionaries to the Tribal Missionaries,
Phil & Jackie Burns
with New Tribes Mission
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