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By Graham Castle
Article
March 2007
Papua New Guinea
Joy and tears in PNG
New Tribes Missionaries Chad Mankins and Jason Knapp have been teaching the Tobo people of Papua New Guinea through foundational portions of the Old Testament. On 16 January this was climaxed by an account of the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. The following is part of Chad and Jason’s report: ‘Yesterday 16 January…
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By Graham Castle
Article
September 2006
Papua New Guinea
Exciting progress in PNG
Missionaries Bob and George Walker and Jack Housley hiked in to visit the Bisorio people of Papua New Guinea, 24 years to the day they first presented the gospel to them in 1982. Today New Tribes Mission no longer has missionaries working among the Bisorios. The work was completed in 2000. The Bisorios express…
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By Clifford Hellar
Article
August 2006
Papua New Guinea
Missionary Spotlight – Doing the impossible in PNG – Clifford Hellar
Soon after my wife and I arrived in Papua New Guinea in January 1962, the field director and I hiked to the location where we were planning to work among Keyagana-speaking people I quickly began to appreciate the problems we would face as we worked there as a family. My wife was pregnant with…
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By Graham Castle
Article
November 2005
Papua New Guinea
Missionary Spotlight – Spiritual warfare in PNG
In 2004 some of the Hewa people of Papua New Guinea heard the gospel for the first time and came to know Christ as Saviour. New Tribes missionaries were already learning Hewa culture and language, but God used a young man named Dogofili to first bring the good news of Christ to these people.…
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By Bernard Lewis
Article
March 2005
Papua New Guinea
Missionary Spotlight – What kind of missionaries?
I was recently asked, ‘What kind of missionaries are needed in Papua New Guinea (PNG) today?’ PNG first had Anglican and London Missionary Society missionaries well over a century ago, and many argue they are no longer needed, but as I travel in both rural and urban areas I get a different perspective —…
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By Glenn Calderwood
Article
March 2005
Papua New Guinea
Missionary Spotlight – Will the real Papua New Guinea please stand up!
PNG is a land of contrasts – the lowland jungle, mountains five kilometres high, white-water rivers and huge meandering waterways snaking their way to the ocean. A nation of 10,000 tribes, more than 700 distinct languages and numerous dialects, its five million people are found in cities, towns and countless stone-age villages, scattered throughout…
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By Bernard Lewis
Article
August 2004
Papua New Guinea
Missionary Spotlight-Papua New Guinea
The Christian worker made his way round PNG villages that had called for his help and advice. These villages had heard and responded to the gospel during the last 50 years. Like the church at Thessalonica, their parents and grandparents had ‘turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God’ (1…
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