NTM Baptizes Over 100
Richard LaFortune
anguksuar at YAHOO.COM
Wed Oct 19 22:20:15 UTC 2005
These guys have been analyzed like some of the other
groups for a few decades- this is what the venerated
writer Norman Lewis wrote in his chronicle, The
Missionaries (1988, Penguin, McGraw-Hill):
"Although many of these had some pretension of
missionary endeavour real power was divided between
the Summer Institute of Linguistics and the New Tribes
Mission, who virtually shared the continent between
them. The SIL and NTM were interested only in tribal
societies and were specially welcome in 'backward'
Latin American countries governed under dictatorial
regimes. Here missionaries were accorded the status
of government officials and the missions given large
tracts of land and contracts to 'settle and civilize'
Indian tribes." p 11
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Chavez bans missionary groupBy Guardian Unlimited /
World news 03:41pm
Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, gives out land
titles in the state of Apure. Photograph: Leslie
Mazoch/AP
Venezuela’s leftwing president, Hugo Chavez, has
ordered the expulsion of a US-based Christian
missionary group he accuses of “violating” state
sovereignty, writes Paul Lewis. “This is an
irreversible decision that I have made,” he said
yesterday in typically steadfast comments. “They will
leave, and I don't care two hoots about the
international consequences that this decision could
bring. No more colonialism!”
Mr Chavez - who came to power in 1998 casting himself
as a revolutionary leader and champion of the poor,
while critics claim has repressed political opposition
- revealed his intentions to ban the evangelical group
at a ceremony in the south-western Apure state in
which he handed over land titles to indigenous groups.
The organisation Mr Chavez intends to remove, New
Tribes Mission, is, he suggests, spying on behalf of
the CIA. Unfounded hearsay? Maybe. Then again, some
believe the CIA was complicit in a failed coup against
Mr Chavez in 2002. An investigation by the Observer
that year indicated that Washington had indeed
sanctioned the attempted overthrow. And just last
month Chavez told ABC News’ Ted Koppel that he had
seen evidence of US plans to invade Venezuela.
Nita Zelenak, a spokeswoman at New Tribes Mission's
headquarters in Sanford, today strongly denied any
links to the CIA. The organisation has also posted a
statement on its website expressing the hope that Mr
Chavez will reconsider his decision.
“New Tribes Mission is not and has never been
connected in any way with any government agencies,”
the group says, before urging followers to pray that
Venezuelan missionaries “will have wisdom as they
pursue further dialogue concerning this matter”.
Conspiracy theories aside, the most likely explanation
for Mr Chavez’s removal of US evangelists is
altogether less dramatic. A friend, admirer and
political ally of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, he has probably
just seized on an opportunity to poke a well aimed
political jab at his arch adversary, George Bush.
Sparring between Caracas and Washington intensified
this year when US broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested
Mr Chavez should be assassinated. Last month, a ruling
by a US immigration judge in Texas to block the
deportation of Luis Posada Carriles - a former CIA
operative wanted in Venezuela for trial over a Cuban
airliner bombing that killed 73 people in 1976 -
prompted fierce condemnation from Mr Chavez. The
judge, William Abbott, argued that Posada faced the
threat of torture in Venezuela, to which he responded
by drawing attention to alleged human rights breaches
at Guantanamo Bay. Cranking up the heat yet further at
the UN summit in New York recently, Mr Chavez
delivered an unflinchingly critical speech against
what he said was Bush’s “imperialistic”
administration.
As Mr Chavez reportedly discovered, there is political
capital to be gained – both at home and abroad – from
replacing Fidel Castro as Latin America's loudest
critic of the superpower to the north. And, as the
Guardian’s correspondent Richard Gott, a Chavez
enthusiast and author of a new book on the president
explains, the maverick leader is well-attuned to
reading popular sentiment in Latin America. Might the
expulsion of US missionaries be just another move
orchestrated to capitalise on anti-American sentiment?
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/10/14/chavez_bans_missionary_group.html
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Chavez kicks out US CIA Christian evangelists:
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=112932&Disp=8
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--- phil cash cash <pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET> wrote:
> NTM Baptizes Over 100 from Unreached Indigenous
> Tribe in Venezuela
>
> New Tribes Mission (NTM) an international
> association of missionaries
> concentrated on indigenous, unreached tribal groups
> in the world
> baptized more than 100 Macos in the Ventuare River
> of Venezuela, on
> Sunday, Sept. 11.
>
> 2038-01-18 19:14
>
http://www.christianpost.com/article/missions/1789/section/
>
>
ntm.baptizes.over.100.from.unreached.indigenous.tribe.in.venezuela/
>
> 1.htm
>
> Last week, over 100 indigenous people from a tribe
> in Venezuela were
> baptized by a tribal-focused mission organization.
>
> New Tribes Mission (NTM) an international
> association of missionaries
> concentrated on indigenous, unreached tribal groups
> in the world
> baptized more than 100 Macos in the Ventuare River
> of Venezuela, on
> Sunday, Sept. 11.
>
> I was just thrilled, NTM Nita Zelenak spokesperson
> told the Christian
> Post on Wednesday. That is what we are here for to
> see that the gospel
> goes out to people who dont have a chance to hear
> it.
>
> According to NTM, the Maco people live in Southern
> Venezuela in both
> the jungle and savannah areas along the Ventuare
> River. They survive by
> planting gardens of jungle fruits and by fishing,
> relying on fish and
> yucca as their main source of nourishment.
>
> Prior to the arrival of NTM, the Macos had some
> knowledge of
> Christianity, learning from the Piaroa, one of
> approximately 12
> surrounding villages around the Maco tribe. Yet
> because of the language
> barrier, the Maco only had a garbled understanding
> of Christianity from
> the knowledge they gained through the Piaroa.
>
> NTM had first presented the Gospel to the Piarao
> village, and when NTM
> missionaries started to evangelize in the Maco
> village, they brought
> believers from the Piarao tribe to help teach the
> Maco tribe.
>
> Typically, Zelenak explained, we go in and we do
> it (evangelize) for a
> period after our missionaries have learned the
> language and culture
> well so that when they present the message they have
> a good idea how it
> will be understood and interpreted and they teach
> accordingly.
>
> What we try to do is work ourselves out of a job,
> she continued, so
> initially a missionary is doing the teaching, but
> after a while the
> native leaders are doing the teaching, and as the
> Bible is translated
> into their language they can be reading and studying
> on their own as
> they grow in their understanding.
>
> The team of missionaries working with the Maco
> tribe Davey and Marie
> Jank, Joe and Jackie Bruce, Bruce and Cindy Higham,
> Phyllis Gordon, and
> Elivia Ulacio press toward the goal of seeing the
> Maco form a self-run
> church. They hope that the Macos will soon be able
> to assume the
> position of the missionaries and spread the Gospel
> to other native
> tribes.
>
> Our long term goal for the Macos is to see them
> with a
> well-established church where they are the leaders
> and they are
> reaching out to others, taking the gospel to others
> first, groups
> within their tribal groups and then to others beyond
> their tribal
> groups.
>
> Zelenak concluded her interview with the Christian
> Post voicing NTMs
> vision, goal, and mission when sharing the Gospel to
> the unreached
> tribal people of the world.
>
> There are so many people in the world today, it is
> not that they
> rejected Christianity, she said. They just dont know
> it exist.
>
> I see our responsibility making that choice to
> other people, we are
> not out to make people believe something but just
> let people know what
> is available.
>
> Currently, NTM missionaries are officially
> planting tribal churches in
> more than 18 "Explore" countries and also involved
> in vital support
> roles including training and administration, supply
> buying and Bible
> translation. They also serve in nine other sending
> countries including
> Australia, Canada, Germany, South Korea, Malaysia,
> New Zealand,
> Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United
> States.
>
>
> michelle at christianpost.com
>
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