{"id":227,"date":"2010-07-03T05:37:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T10:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/todd-nelson\/?p=227"},"modified":"2010-10-07T08:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:10:52","slug":"why-are-we-doing-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/todd-nelson\/2010\/07\/03\/why-are-we-doing-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are We Doing This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cIn February 2006, after four-and-a-half years of culture and language study, we once again faced the Moi people with nervous excitement and said, &#8220;Hear us well Moi people. For we bring you a message from the Creator. He loves you and has something He wants to say to you. &#8216;In the beginning \u2026.'&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em>(Stephen Crockett, NTM Missionary to the Moi \u2013 May 4, 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntm.org\/magazine\/10825\">www.ntm.org\/magazine\/10825<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Moi people are an example of an isolated people who have come to believe in Jesus Christ as Savior.\u00a0 It would take years of language and culture study to get to the point of being able to teach any truth from the Word of God.\u00a0 It would take many more months of teaching from the Bible, starting\u00a0from the book of\u00a0Genesis and ending at\u00a0the cross of Christ.\u00a0 It will take many more years to get this new church firmly established in their faith in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to AWAYO\u2019s testimony in his own heart language.\u00a0 He is now a believer in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"570\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7087303&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"570\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7087303&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7087303\">AWAYO &#8211; Fear to Faith (English subtitles)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/newtribes\">New Tribes Mission<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AWAYO, as a new believer in Jesus Christ, realized that there are many more people like him who do not know that Jesus died for them \u2013 to pay their sin debt.\u00a0 He would ask a very compelling question:\u00a0 \u201cWho will tell them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there are still over 2,500 people groups that remain unreached.\u00a0 They live life in constant fear.\u00a0 They live life in bondage to their beliefs.\u00a0 They live in total spiritual darkness.\u00a0 They live without knowing about the love of God found in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not a single missionary is there to learn their language and culture.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Not a single missionary is there to shine the light of God\u2019s truth into their darkness.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why are Sue and I devoting the rest of our lives to training missionaries?\u00a0\u00a0 The answer is <em>\u201cfor the sake of the Gospel.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 The answer is to train and send workers into the unreached fields of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus said, <em>\u201cThe harvest is great, but the workers are few.\u00a0 So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask Him to send more workers into His fields.\u201d (Matt 9:37-38)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lord has called us into a training ministry with New Tribes Mission. \u00a0We are missionaries training future missionaries in answer to our Lord\u2019s charge.<\/p>\n<p>To join our support team, click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/todd-nelson\/give\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Or, go to our Give page above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn February 2006, after four-and-a-half years of culture and language study, we once again faced the Moi people with nervous excitement and said, &#8220;Hear us well Moi people. 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