Stories

Stories

  • 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…

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  • Excellence Takes Time

    How long does it really take to plant a church, translate a Bible or train a missionary?The answers can vary. But it’s difficult to believe that it can take less time in a cross-cultural ministry than it does right here in North America. Consider this … North American church planters estimate it takes two years of…

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  • Missionary Training Equipped African Couple

    They Don’t See It That Way “The people we are trying to reach have a worldview, and as long as we don’t understand this worldview it will be hard to reach these people,” Jean said. “We need to … be able to teach in such a way as to challenge their worldview.” Teaching So People…

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  • ‘No Church Without a Bible Translation’

    Light, Life and Fellowship It’s an understatement to say that Jill Goring, NTM’s international translation consultant coordinator, thinks Bible translation is important. “Without God’s Word,” she said, “there is no truth, no light, no life, no fellowship — no knowledge of God! Without God’s Word — believers have nothing to eat, teachers have nothing to…

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  • A Global Team

    From their home in Indiana, John and Margaret Martin are invested in the Laniers’ ministry through prayer, giving, and offering to help in practical way with their God-given abilities.

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  • Use Your IT Skills in Missions

    What do computers have to do with missions? EVERYTHING!

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