Stories
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5 Reasons You Should Join an Indigenous Ministries Team
We live in a world that is dominated by the ubiquitous focus of self:My happiness. My independence. My success. And yet what God calls us to is selflessness and interdependence through teamwork. Our bodies are wonderful creations. Our heart pumps and we don’t think about it, our lungs breathe without thought, and when you pick…
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A Special Kind of Challenge
The Indigenous people within Canada have been subjected to horrific abuse Often at the hands of men and women associated with “the church”. Children were wrenched out of their home and communities, often without their parent’s knowledge or consent, and placed in residential schools. Today, the suicide rates for Inuit youth are among the highest…
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Expediting the Reach of the Gospel through IT
“I just can’t imagine the amount of time that was spent in making corrections that I do now with one button.”
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One Bible Translation Completed, Another Just Starting
One Down and More to Go It is the goal of Ethnos to see a thriving church for every people. One primary focus is translating the Scriptures into the language of each people group. What better way to push out the edge of the Church than for believers to read the Word for themselves in…
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Tribal Missionary or Web Developer: Which is More Important?
For years Stephen Narwold had envisioned this exciting picture of tribal missionary life for himself.
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The Ayoré Church: 75 Years Later
One day not too long ago, a Bolivian farmer was cultivating his watermelon crop with a gun slung over his shoulder. After a while, he set the gun against a tree. As he kept working, he moved farther and farther from it.
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An Elder Looks at Leadership among the Moi
The Moi Church Begins In 2000, some 58 years after NTM was born, the missionary team moved into the Moi area on the island of New Guinea. After six years of culture and language study, translation work and teaching, the Crocketts, Panambunans, Browns and Whatleys watched the Moi church bloom into existence. What started out…
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Establishing Churches: Biblical Goal from the Start
Evangelism Wasn’t Hit and Run If you take a quick run through Acts, you might think the Apostle Paul and his missionary companions moved quickly from town to town, preaching the gospel. But if you read carefully, you’ll see that’s seldom the case. Paul or members of his party often spent months establishing a church,…
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Bible Translation Makes People Want to Read
Writing It Down in Budik It took a while for Eme to warm up to helping Kathy Satorius translate the New Testament into her language, Budik. “At first it was really hard,” she said. “I didn’t even like it. I didn’t think I could do it. But after a while I felt like I was…