LINKYOUR CONNECTION WITH TRIBAL MISSIONS Introducing ntm-usa as Ethnos360 July 2017 July Editorial North cotes 75th Anniversary Update As 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of there are now over 1200 After nine years the renovation of the New Tribes Mission (NTM), it seemed churches planted among some of the Paul Fleming building, formerly the appropriate for all of us here at NTM-UK world’s most remote people groups. We Officers' Mess, has been completed. The to celebrate it in some way. Our social took time to pray for the ongoing work work was carried out in three phases. committee came up with the great idea that the Lord is doing through His people The eight student apartments were the of a 1940’s style British tea party. It was serving throughout the world, and praised first to be finished, followed by the chapel a wonderful time of fellowship as the Him for His unwavering faithfulness over and other communal rooms, and finally NTM-UK and North Cotes College staff, the last seventy-five years, knowing He this year, the staff family apartment. volunteers and students came together will remain faithful in the years ahead. to remember how NTM was founded. It is Then we celebrated ‘British style’ with a Many, many man hours by many, many humbling to see how NTM has grown from traditional ‘afternoon tea’, enjoying tea, students, volunteers, staff and contractors the sacrifice of our first five missionaries; coffee, sandwiches, cakes and scones! have gone into transforming the once shabby shell. However none of it would have been achieved without God's provision and faithfulness.

Mark 6:31...“Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.”...

For the second year running, an NTM-UK staff weekend retreat was held in the beautiful county of Derbyshire. This year the speaker was Ed Hinds - former chairman of NTM-UK and teacher for twenty years when the Bible training was in Matlock, Derbyshire. On the 28th April 2017, NTM-USA announced that it was changing Ed shared from the book of Ruth. There was its name from New Tribes Mission also time for worship, prayer, fellowship, to Ethnos360. It was a decision taken walking, shopping, sightseeing etc. Fun after years of consideration and planning. and games late on Saturday for the adults, NTM-UK has no immediate thoughts about included bridge building with newspaper a name change in the United Kingdom. We and modelling with play dough! Activities on will remain known as New Tribes Saturday for the teens included, high ropes, Mission. archery, and cart building and racing.

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If there is one thing that I will never forget The work of NTM is something that from class it will be to, “Humble yourself Jonathan has always been familiar with in the sight of the Lord!” (James 4:10) This through his family and childhood church verse now lays immortalised in my mind as which supports the Pierce and Reese Jonathan & NAOMI a catchy tune we have sung all too often on families serving in . As a boy, are from the UK. They have two boys dish crew and during practical work. however, he never imagined that one day aged one and two. After finishing he too would train to be part of a similar training at North Cotes College, they Coming into this year finances seemed like work. It was not until he was well into his hope to become part of a church- a big scary wall to me as I needed support twenties that he realised that God wanted planting team in an unreached people Palmer TIm to finish the course. As I look back from him to dedicate his life to reaching group. is from America and has lived in the final part of my studies I thank God for those who have never heard the England for 17 years. His parents His blessings poured out through family, wonderful message that saves. work on staff at North Cotes friends and even strangers! College. Jonathan and I (Naomi) met in 2012 and We are currently talking with our church My future plans are to get involved with when we married in 2013, we were already leaders about possibly staying to complete people abroad who have not heard, nor convinced that NTM provides the best the extra linguistic training year. We Growing up as a staff kid here on the North indeed have the opportunity to hear the possible training to help prepare us to hope this will give us the best foundation Cotes campus I have seen many students . However, for this upcoming year it serve in an unreached people group. After possible for a future church-planting work, come and go. This year it seemed to be seems I will begin with a smaller step away spending two years talking and praying although we are not yet sure which area of the right time to fulfil my curiosity and from home to the other side of England to through things with our home church in the world this will be in. We are unclear see what the Biblical Studies year was like work. Shepshed, we started the first year Biblical as to the details of our future, but are first-hand. Studies course in September 2015, and confident that God, who has helped and are now nearing the end of the second guided us up to this point, is more than The campus was not a new place to me but year’s Cross Cultural Communications able to lead and direct us in the future too the students were. My classmates have course. The course has been fantastic, – watch this space! made this a fun year for sure! I have really interesting, thought-provoking, enjoyed late night chats with like-minded challenging, and above all useful, in people and I would say that seeing other 1st Year: Biblical studies helping us to become relevant in a cross- people’s passion for missions in ‘Hold the A Foundation for Living and a Heart for cultural context. Ropes’ (a time of prayer for missionaries World Evangelism to the field on the field) has been a highlight. Trying to juggle being a mum with small 2nd Year: Cross- Cultural children and participating in the course The teachers were not new to me but Communications has been a challenge, but God has been the Word of God was as fresh and Specialised Training for Cross-Cultural faithful! Jonathan was worried about challenging as ever. This year it has Evangelism the language aspects of the course since been great for me to study those books he has never learned a foreign language, we all often skip past in our that 3rd year: Applied Linguistics but in the end he found them immensely contain such awesome truths. It is also Specialised Training in Analysing enjoyable and got on far better than he such a blessing to be taught by former Unwritten Languages expected. church planting missionaries that can apply lessons in a very real way. www.northcotescollege.co.uk

Dave & Emma Moore Papua New in July 2017 4 5 CÔTE D'IVOIRE the real story His vessels During the last two weeks of May, our In 1997 we moved by helicopter into team of eight had the privilege of going out Sorimi. This was in answer to their plea to to assist the young Palaka for help as they were, “dying like pigs and Poul & Carol Joensen have three sons. P church in constructing a building where To see their faith, their love for dogs because no one cared about them.” oul is Faroese and Carol is British. In 2014 they they could meet for worship, regardless the Lord and for the Word of God, Twenty years later, we are thankful to still returned to UK for the boys' British of the weather. Previously they had been was a joy to us all. be involved with the Sorimi people. Now, educational needs, P meeting in the shade of a couple of huge many names are known and numbered in oul continues in itinerant work with the Sorimi mango trees. During each Sunday service, an opportunity the Book of Life! church. is given for individuals to recount what they We were hosted by a couple, who are the learnt from the message of the previous We learned their language and culture, only NTM missionaries living amongst the taught literacy, and gave medical care; week. As various ones shared (interpreted Every six months, he takes a six week Palaka people. Amidst other things, they developing great friendships to share the by our hosts) it was obvious that they had trip to Sorimi, teaching lessons, meeting are working on the translation of the New love of Christ. Bible translation began while come eager to learn from the Word. Indeed with leaders guiding them in shepherding Testament into the Palaka language. This teaching key passages from creation to His their sincere faith is known far and wide in the church, and working with translation great task is well on its way to completion. resurrection. A Sorimi church was born in this area of the country. helpers. They add detail to his first draft, 2007! What joy to see changes from then read it to first-time listeners to ensure It became clear early in our time there that fear to faith, rituals to praying, In very difficult circumstances we were they can comprehend. Yearly, Poul and the real story was not about the and believers committed to help able to accomplish almost everything that three Sorimi men have a final check with a church building that we had come to with translation and teaching in we set out to do. In the end our time ran mission consultant regarding accuracy and put a roof on, but rather the church church. out, but we left the building at a point where clarity of the Sorimi Scripture. that God is building amongst these it can be easily finished. I do not recall ever dear Palaka people. The two Sundays Four years ago we had to leave Sorimi, being involved in a project where I was so This involves being on the move, leaving that we had the privilege of worshipping but remained burdened for the maturing aware of so many people praying for us. It family, many expenses, a less systematic with them were a special blessing. church. God began to unfold a plan! Poul was apparent that God was present, giving way of translating, and not keeping in now works in the UK translating what he us strength daily. tune with the church to know how best can independently. Portions of Scripture to disciple them during a short trip. But are at various stages: from his first draft to It is reassuring to know that this building God enables! For the sake of the Gospel, implementing corrections made by Sorimi will be a venue where people meet to the we continue as a TEAM; our family, people, or preparing final work for checking glory of God, for many years to come. supporters, Sorimi workers and others. with a consultant. After editing, more What a privilege to be His vessels! To GOD Scripture is printed and sent to the church! The Palaka Christians appreciated all be the glory… the Sorimi people no longer Aside from translation, Poul also prepares who contributed to this project. They kept fear death because they have eternal life! saying with amazement, “people who don’t Bible lessons to teach to the church. even know us are helping us”. What a great testimony to them of the body of Christ in action. We were blessed to go on this trip and be part of a great venture. We add our heartfelt thanks to those of the Palaka Christians.

Written by Gary Beach (A staff member at North Cotes, who previously served in for 18 years)

6 7 PAPUA NEW GUINEA creating opportunities building his church Recently I read an article by a photographer In 1995 we started to work in the Yagwoia who referred to himself as being 'location tribe in the Highlands of Papua New independent', preferring to move from Guinea. Right from the beginning of the assignment to assignment. Many others work it was our goal to work hard have adopted this ‘digital nomad’ lifestyle. to reach the people in the Yagwoia In today's world of internet based work tribe with God’s Word in their own and digital communication can the culture and language. Once people work of missions be carried on in the tribe put their trust in Christ for remotely? If so, what can and cannot be salvation and started to meet as Christians achieved this way? it was our goal to train them so that they Rober would be able to continue the work of t & Nicole Westerveld There are two important elements in the teaching the believers and reaching out to with Elianne, Amos and Jorim. work of cross-cultural mission; time and the unbelievers. They are from the Netherlands and proximity. Time spent with the people, have been working in and for the learning language and culture, building The believers at the different locations in Yagwoia tribe since 1995. friendships and relationships, time in In countries where access is restricted it is the tribe grew in their faith in the Lord as evangelism, teaching and discipleship. usually not possible to have a long-term, we were teaching them and the Holy Spirit Church planting can take years of settled ministry in one place. However, was working in their hearts. They were able Yearly we visit the different locations in the investing in people’s lives, living in it may be possible to make short visits to take over more and more responsibilities tribe during the summer months. their communities. to these locations, connecting with the in the churches and in outreach. people in different places, training and We check the translated material with the There are some roles however, that can equipping others to go where we cannot. We also continued translating God’s Word believers and work on the dialect changes. be fulfilled on an itinerant basis. Our own The context of these ministry locations and in 2009 we were able to give Each year we enjoy seeing that the Lord personal circumstances have caused us demands that we find alternative ways of the believers the New Testament continues to build His church in the tribe to be away from the field a lot over recent working, including working itinerantly. in their language. At that time we through the believers. years. With the task of researching ethnic moved to another part of the tribe where people groups in Asia we have carried Speaking to His disciples, Jesus said, we started to work among Yagwoia people out much of this assignment using email "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have speaking other dialects. We began to and internet. However, more in-depth nests but the Son of man has no place to adapt the translation and Bible lessons research must follow with onsite visits lay His head." Jesus had nothing against to those dialects. Meanwhile four times and assessments. having a roof over His head but He didn't a year we visited the believers where we want His followers to be restricted by such used to live. temporary things as housing or location. Globalisation, urbanisation and technology In 2012 we moved to the Netherlands to have opened up different possibilities for help our children adjust to life in Europe reaching people that were not possible and to help my elderly parents. before. We must avail ourselves of We continue to work on Old every opportunity to reach the Testament translation and unreached peoples of our day. adapting translation and Bible lessons for the dialects. Written by the Murphys in Southeast Asia

8 9 Only the light of the true Gospel can break these vicious cycles of Picking up the baton evil, hurt and pain. God has been working for a long time to So why would two families who have gone break the ground and prepare Himself a through NTM’s missionary training, with people who are set free from the slavery special focus on reaching the unreached of sin in Greenland. Many have gone before people groups in the world, go back to us, including missionaries from NTM. It Greenland? Approximately 95% of the is on the shoulders of those who have Filip & Ane Siver 55.847 people who live in Greenland are tsen worked to prepare the ground that we will Filip is Faroese, grew up in Greenland members of the Lutheran State church. stand when we go to continue a task that They have had a complete Bible translation and is married to Ane from Denmark. is unfinished. We pick up the baton from They lived in Greenland for ten years for more than 100 years, which was revised those who ran the race before us. in the year 2000. So, are they unreached? with their two children; Cecilia and Kristian. During the last two years, The Greenlandic people have As we continue the race, it is so important alið access to the Gospel but it has they have been through the missionary Óli & Anne Sophie Tind to know what the goal is. We desire to see only penetrated the heart of very training at North Cotes College. Óli is Faroese, grew up in Greenland an indigenous Greenlandic church with few people. The light of true believers and is married to Anne Sophie, from ongoing Bible teaching and discipleship walking with the Lord is so limited that it Switzerland. They lived in Greenland in Greenlandic, the heart language of the seems like the country is covered with a for twelve years and have two people. In addition, a church with mature cloud of spiritual darkness that is so hard daughters; Liljan and Leanna. Over believers and its own leadership, that We want to teach and disciple to break through. the last two years, they have been reach out to all corners of Greenland with bilingual Greenlandic men and through the missionary training at the Gospel. women, and pass on the baton • Greenland has the highest suicide rate North Cotes College. to them as we work with them in the world. We cannot do this on our own, but nothing to develop Bible lessons in is impossible for God. You can be a part Greenlandic. “Who would ever want to go to Greenland?” • Approximately one out of three people of it when you pray for Greenland and A lady asked us this question recently when have experienced sexual abuse before the for us. God wants His church to function Even though we will start Bible teaching in we had a display table with information age of eighteen. as one body and we will work together Danish, we shall simultaneously study the about Greenland, “I am glad you are going, with believers in Nuuk, to continue the Greenlandic language and culture. This is but I prefer warm places”, she continued. • Approximately 20% of all children in chronological Bible teaching that is already very important for building relationships Greenland grow up in homes with alcohol taking place in Danish. and being able to disciple the Greenlandic We believe God has different problems. believers more effectively. paths for all of us and we know that it is His desire that the Gospel should be preached to all nations and even to the ends of the earth. Greenland is one of the far ends of the earth and most people know very little about the country. In conversation with different ones during our missionary training in the UK, the fact that it is a cold place seems to be the only thing most people know about Greenland.

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We left the morning service on a chilly Ingvard grew up in a Christian home and January Sunday to fly from Manchester was saved at the age of 22. Erla also to the thirty degree heat and hustle and grew up in a Christian home and came bustle of Dakar. We were on our way to to salvation at a young age. Their desire pay a pastoral visit to Steve and Moira to grow in the knowledge of the Word of Poulson, church members working among God led them both to NTM Bible School in the Baynunk people in the southern Matlock, Derbyshire in the early 1990's. ‘Casamance’ region of Senegal. We were going because we wanted They both grew up with the knowledge to encourage them in their work, that there are still unreached people Graham & C but ended up being encouraged athy Culver groups, but didn’t feel they had what it Graham serves as the pastor of ourselves! took to be missionaries. Through the Grimsby Baptist Church. Graham teaching at Bible School they and Cathy travelled to Senegal to After two nights in Dakar, we flew down to realised that the Lord is looking ingvard & visit NTM missionaries in January Erla Petersen Ziguinchor. During our time with Steve and for availability. are both from the Faroe Islands and 2017. Moira, it was wonderful to meet the handful have three children. They served in of Baynunk believers whose names we had Both were convinced that He was leading for eight years and joined the staff at North Cotes College in heard in prayer letters. We travelled on dirt We went to Senegal wanting to encourage them to be involved with the Lord’s desire 2008. roads to villages where children wear the and not wanting to get in the way. We expressed in 1 Timothy 2:4 “….who desires shirts of European football teams but know were wonderfully welcomed and left with all men to be saved and to come to the nothing of Jesus. We saw the openness a clear sense that our visit had been knowledge of the truth.”. The fact that of the people to the Word of God an encouragement to the members we there are many who still have not heard What was the purpose of those years in the as mp3 recordings of teaching and the visited, and to the wider team because by of Christ's redemptive work on the cross, tribe where they were unable to complete Scriptures are being circulated and eagerly coming to visit we were taking an interest made them decide to be available. language and cultural learning to a level listened to on Chinese made battery in what God is doing in West Africa. powered radios. We were also able to After several years of waiting they finished where they could teach? worship with African brothers and sisters So many times during our trip the words the training with NTM in 2000. They served They may never fully know the in a local evangelical church. of Colossians 1:6 were brought to my mind in Venezuela for eight years, working answers to these questions, but “All over the world this Gospel is bearing amongst the Yanomami people and at that is okay! We spent five nights with Steve and Moira fruit and growing” [NIV] We were reminded CFM’s Bible and Missionary Training before flying back to Dakar where we again of the power of the Word of God. Institute. In 2008 they joined the staff were able to catch up with another church team at North Cotes and have been here Moving to more than one new country and learning more than one new language and member and talk with members of the We went to Senegal with a desire to ever since. Ingvard is one of the resident culture, and coping with living in a remote West Africa Leadership team. encourage but came home encouraged to teachers in the Biblical studies course and tribe, has taught them many truths about continue the ongoing Gospel ministry in Erla is a college secretary. God and themselves. the United Kingdom. Visit a missionary? Ingvard and Erla sometimes ask Ingvard and Erla count it a privilege to be Why not! themselves: Why would the Lord lead them to a country and into a tribal work, able to interact through teaching and on a to then take them out and place them at personal level with the students who come North Cotes College? and study at the College.

12 13 food for thought Impact for Eternity bearing fruit Praying for one Another In December 2016 a new church was born Guinea- Bulongish They built their home in a remote village and in Papua New Guinea amongst the Mengen Simon Flanagan David and Rachel Burke and their two along with team members moved there in people group. Simon and Annika Flanagan children, continue serving itinerantly in 2014. plan to return to this church planting work Guinea, West Africa, whilst living in Northen Together with the Callahan and Williamson in 2018, teaming up with their partners, Thankfully I heard about the One who would Ireland. This month (July), they are taking a families they have studied language and the Laureti family, to see the three existing take us back (Redeemer) and would be trip to Guinea, as a family, for three weeks. culture and have taught literacy. In February Mengen churches equipped to reach their sent one day as a Helper. So I got to know During their time, they plan to do an outreach of this year they started teaching the own people group and beyond with the that Jesus was God Himself who died in to the children in the village and also have chronological Bible lessons. Gospel. my place for my sins. It was just like that the Gospel of John consultant checked. The team taught the Iski people every day perfect innocent Lamb in the David is working towards completing the for three and a half months, ending with a Here one new believer shares his testimony: that was killed and burned in the place of translation of the New Testament by the four hour lesson on the death, burial and the sinner. end of 2018. Please continue to pray for the resurrection of Christ. The Iski heard how After growing up not knowing his parents small group of believers to be encouraged Christ's payment satisfied God's judgment of and getting involved with the wrong crowd, The day I heard about Jesus being the Lamb and strengthened in their faith. All of the sin and opened the door for them to new life he started misusing drugs and alcohol and of God killed in my place to pay for my sins Bulongish villages now have audio Scripture in Him. That afternoon they listened again via often got in trouble with the authorities. I just could not listen to that anymore. I ran and Bible lessons that they listen to, please digital recordings of the morning lessons. He fled to a small village far away where he out of the building and found a place where pray that the Holy Spirit would open hearts The next lesson told about Christ going back was encouraged by a Mengen Bible teacher, I could hide…” to the truth. to Heaven and promising to return again, Eddie, to attend literacy classes. followed by a time for thoughts from the Eddie says: “As I was teaching I saw him Papua New Guinea- Iski community. The response was amazing and “…They started to teach us God's talk and jump up and run out of the building. The Iski church has been born! we have many new brothers and sisters in at first it was really hard for me to listen Afterwards we found him in a ditch crying. André and Aurélie Tousch finished the Christ. because I realised who God was. I realised He said that he just could not listen to training at North Cotes College in July 2013 Please pray for the Iski church as the that He was perfect and all powerful and the story anymore. He was just feeling so and in the same year left their home country missionaries continue to translate the all-knowing and everywhere. He knew ashamed and so embarrassed. It was so of France to serve in a church planting Scriptures and disciple the believers over the me inside and out, and I cannot hard for him to hear that God actually loves ministry in Papua New Guinea. coming years. hide from Him like I’m hiding from the him and showed mercy and grace to him authorities. But then I learned that He is and made a plan to help a guy like him, and also loving and God is so much different to believe that God so loves us that He died than all the other spirits that we honour for us. He felt that he just does not deserve July 2017 from other archives. Link is the official New Tribes Mission is a registered and worship. Then I learned about the Volume XLIV magazine of New Tribes Mission in the UK charity, No. 278627. that. 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