No Longer Afraid

June 1, 2017

I hiked to Emo’s hut on the banks of the Yif River on June 13, and when I arrived, Emo was very happy to show me his brand new house and the garden his family planted in the river valley. “Why did you leave your brother’s house on the ridge top to move here,” […]

Our Life at a Glance: Growing Up in Senegal

May 31, 2017

Our kids have the amazing opportunity of growing up in Senegal. It is true that there are challenges they face with the constant transitions and good byes. They are part of many worlds and cultures and yet not fully part of any. However we love celebrating with them some of the fun parts of life. […]

Our Life at a Glance: Community and Church

May 24, 2017

CHURCH With all the other aspects of our ministry and travels we have limited time here in our own community and church, but the moments we have we consider precious. Our church here has become part of our home and our family. We love the opportunity to be involved in body life here and the […]

Our Life at a Glance: Travel for Training

May 18, 2017

The second main reason we travel is to participate in training seminars. Our goal, as a field, for our church planters is to limit the amount of time they are forced to come out of the village. So we try to have different personnel from our field participate in training sessions that they can then […]

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 […]

My thoughts on our Advanced Language Workshop

May 13, 2017

Chandler and I were given the opportunity to attend an ALW (Advanced Language Workshop) that Ethnos360, founded in 1942 as New Tribes Mission, offers periodically in different parts of the world. The purpose of the workshop is to learn about discourse analysis. Discourse analysis is how we organize what we say so that people can […]

Hala and 22Q-Long Version

May 12, 2017

Many of you have heard our story of 22Q but many don’t. We want to share with you about our journey with Hala and 22Q and what the future looks like for her and our family. Hala was born January 9, 1999, right on her due date. We were between our Junior and Senior semesters […]

History in May 2017

May 11, 2017

Do you know when I became Theo? When dad and mom Enns first went to Brazil as missionaries with New Tribes Mission in 1958, they called me Teddy. But when I entered 7th grade I thought I had grown up, so I insisted on being called Theodore … all the way through high school. At […]

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. […]

God At Work

May 11, 2017

You may remember our Tribal brother Edgar from Paraguay who suffered a terrible motorcycle accident in September of 2012. God is working miraculously in his life and and that of his wife. They both recently graduated from the German Mission Bible School and are back at their Colony sharing God’s Word with their People. Loli […]