Well as a part of a school trip I was extremely priveleged to go to a New Tribes Mission "Camp" so to speak called Wayumi this previous week. Essentially it is a week long plunge into the world of Tribal Missions and what New Tribes Mission looks like on a very practical level.
At the core of the program is solid biblical teaching and a visit to a 'real' tribal village! The Tribal Village consists of previous New Tribes Missions who dress up in the full tribal attire of the people which they reached with the gospel. The assignment going into the village is to convert a list of words into the tribal language by communicating with the tribal person. It was quite intimidating trying to figure the word for "Machete" from someone with a completely different culture and language!
Indeed while I haven't had more fun in quite a long time, it was awesome to see many longing questions about tribal missions answered. Fear had gripped me that I wouldn't be enough of a super-Christian to be involved with tribal missions. So you can imagine the relief when the teachers there told us that they were not super-Christians. All they did was work diligently and trust the Lord to do something huge.
If there had been any doubt that I wanted to do tribal missions it soon vanished!
Pray for me!
and please visit http://www.ntm.org/missiontrips/wayumi.php if you have any more questions about the program or the mission itself
