New Tribes Mission

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The New Tribes Mission (NTM, English: New Tribes Missionary ) is an international evangelical mission society headquartered in Sanford (Florida) , USA . The German nickname is church planting among the unreached .

In Germany it has a branch in Hückeswagen with the “Ethnos 360” eV and is closely connected to the aid organization Friends in Action . In Germany, the association runs Christian "adventure tent camps" and the "Berlin Faith Conference". He is associated with "InAktion Wünsdorf eV" and publishes the magazine "Gehet hin". She works with the “Evangelical Free Church Community Berlin-Hohenstaufenstrasse”. The association is a member of the AEM Association of Evangelical Missions .

mission

The aim of the organization is to support the ministry of the local community “urged by the love of Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit . This should be done by educating and motivating as well as equipping and accompanying the missionaries , who reach unreached ethnic groups with the gospel , translate the Bible and build local churches according to New Testament principles that truly glorify God. "

The organization currently has around 3,200 missionaries in 18 countries, second only to the Wycliff Bible Translators / SIL International . NTM works on the belief base of the German Evangelical Alliance .

theology

The organization represents a conservative evangelical theology. She believes in verbal inspiration and practices believer baptism by immersion . She distances herself from ecumenism and the charismatic movement .

history

The organization was founded in 1942 by Paul Fleming. Fleming was from Los Angeles . When he was ten or eleven, he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior in the Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles. Even his parents were devoted Christians. His mother spent a lot of time in prayer and was referred to as an angel by those around her. In the 1930s he had worked as a missionary in the British colony of Malaya under the Satai (Semang) .

In 1942 the organization sent the first group of missionaries to Bolivia ; of the ten adults and six children, five men were killed the following year by an Ayoré tribe when they tried to contact the tribe. The missionaries were Cecil Dye, Bob Dye, Dave Bacon, George Hosbach, and Eldon Hunter. For months before, they had repeatedly left gifts for the Ayoré to show their peaceful intentions. “It wasn't until 1950 that the missionaries finally learned what had happened to the five men who had been reported missing in December 1943. An Ayoré who had been an eyewitness told the missionaries how the five white men had come to their village seven years earlier. The Indians were alarmed, but watched closely as the men deposited gifts in the middle of the clearing. Because a warrior wanted a larger gift, the five men were killed about an hour later. The chief was not in the camp at the time. When he returned and discovered what had happened, he made serious accusations to the murderers: 'You should not have killed them. I would not have killed her. ' He noticed what the murderers had overlooked: the white men did not carry guns with them so as not to injure the Ayorés. They hadn't acted like enemies. The white skin of the missionaries finally led the Indians to conclude that these must have been descendants of a light-skinned Ayoré, called the 'White Butterfly', who was highly respected in Ayoré tradition. God later used this conclusion to make them want to become friends of the missionaries ”( Kenneth J. Johnston : Departure to the Unreached).

From the summer of 1943 the organization was based in the heart of Chicago . In the same year she started publishing Brown Gold magazine . In 1944/1945 NTM moved to Fouts Springs in California and set up a training camp there.

In June 1950, the NTM's DC-3 crashed in Venezuela ; all 15 inmates were killed. The machine had been inspected by the Federal Aviation Administration FAA and declared fit to fly. She was in better shape than she had been with American Airlines in her earlier days . The cause was probably sloppiness at Maracaibo Airport . The airport was closed at sunset 30 minutes before the scheduled arrival time. The radio service was also switched off and a safe landing was impossible.

The second aircraft that the mission company acquired in September 1950 was a DC-3 cargo version (C-47) that was converted into a regular DC-3 passenger aircraft. It crashed on November 21, 1950 after a final radio contact to Idaho Falls during a storm on the northeast ridge of Mount Moran in Wyoming . It was believed that the aircraft's electrical system had failed. All 18 inmates were killed, including Paul Fleming and several children.

In Germany there were NTM missionaries before there was a separate German branch of work. Manfred and Lore Hüncke networked these missionaries with one another. On June 13, 1992, the SUMMIT eV (from "SUMmer MIssion Teams") emerged in Detmold and sent a summer mission team to Senegal in the same year. The magazine “Gehet hin” has been published since 1995. In 1999 the club moved to Scheideweg (Hückeswagen) . From 2002 the association worked as NTM (New Tribes Mission) e. V. In 2018 the name was changed to "Ethnos 360".

The point of view of critics and opponents

The New Tribes Mission is alleged to have made illicit contact with the nomadic Ayoreo people in Paraguay in 1979 and 1986 , which resulted in several deaths from foreign diseases. Other Ayoreo died soon after contacting the missionaries and moving into their camps.

Retired Archbishop of the Anglican Church of the Indian Ocean , Trevor Huddleston , Chair of the Human Rights Commission of the British Parliament , Lord Avebury , and Chair of Survival International , Robin Hanbury-Tenison, signed an open letter calling on the NTM to “ Practices ”and accept indigenous religions and cultures.

The eco-anarchist Eco-Action.org claims that the NTM is indifferent to the well-being of the peoples it missionises and that NTM not only convert indigenous peoples to Christianity , but also invite them to permanent settlements, camps or reservations , their way of life change, and integrate them into market economy structures, by NTM introducing money, US consumer goods and market crops ( cash crops ).

Paul Gifford accuses NTM of engaging in industrial espionage and of representing US foreign policy goals in the countries where they are active.

Because of the methods used by the Mission Society in Latin America , an investigation has been launched in Great Britain by the non-partisan Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights.

In October 2005, the BBC reported that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had announced that he would expel the New Tribes Mission from the country. He accused her of representing imperialist interests, violating Venezuela's national sovereignty and Venezuelan law, as NTM planes carried out illegal flights on Venezuelan territory. He also attacked NTM for setting up luxurious camps for converts next to desperately poor indigenous villages. NTM denied all allegations, stating that it would follow government guidelines on all flights and simply provide its missionaries with basic accommodation to enable them to continue their work. According to the NTM and media reports, almost 3,000 people demonstrated in Puerto Ayacucho on November 3, 2005 against the expulsion of the missionaries.

See also

Web links

Other sources

  • Norman Lewis: The Missionaries . About the destruction of other cultures. An eyewitness report. About the extermination of the last South American Indian cultures by American sects. (Klett-Cotta 1991), ISBN 3-608-95312-4 (Extremely critical presentation of the work of NTM.)
  • Kenneth J. Johnston: Departure to the Unreached. The story of New Tribes Mission Christian Literature Distribution, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89397-953-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. Cologne District Court VR 800639.
  2. formerly "Social Partnership Berlin-Brandenburg eV"
  3. Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on: May 9, 2012). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aem.de
  4. Goals. (No longer available online.) NTM Germany, archived from the original on February 2, 2010 ; Retrieved May 7, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / deutschland.ntm.org
  5. Beliefs. (No longer available online.) NTM Germany, archived from the original on May 25, 2010 ; Retrieved May 7, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / deutschland.ntm.org
  6. Kenneth J. Johnston: Departure to the Unreached. The story of New Tribes Mission. 2nd slightly shortened edition. Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89397-953-0 , p. 11.
  7. Kenneth J. Johnston: Departure to the Unreached. The story of New Tribes Mission. 2nd slightly shortened edition. Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89397-953-0 , p. 17f.
  8. Kenneth J. Johnston: Departure to the Unreached. The story of New Tribes Mission. 2nd slightly shortened edition. Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89397-953-0 , p. 54.
  9. Ruth A. Tucker: From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya. Zondervan, Grand Rapids 1983, ISBN 0-310-45931-1 , p. 310.
  10. Kenneth J. Johnston: Departure to the Unreached. The story of New Tribes Mission. 2nd slightly shortened edition. Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89397-953-0 , p. 59.
  11. Kenneth J. Johnston: Departure to the Unreached. The story of New Tribes Mission. 2nd slightly shortened edition. Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89397-953-0 , pp. 95f.
  12. Ruth A. Tucker: From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya. Zondervan, Grand Rapids 1983, ISBN 0-310-45931-1 , p. 312.
  13. Kenneth J. Johnston: Departure to the Unreached. The story of New Tribes Mission. 2nd slightly shortened edition. Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89397-953-0 , p. 112f.
  14. NTM Germany - praise God before your eyes! (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 26, 2009 ; Retrieved June 7, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / deutschland.ntm.org
  15. Missionswerk in Scheideweg - new name, same mission , rp-online.de, article from January 30, 2018.
  16. Survival International: PARAGUAY: Uncontacted Indians in Danger ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 31, 2002, Survival International: Ayoreo , Survival International: VENEZUELA: President expels fundamentalist New Tribes Mission ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 27, 2005, Bulldozers enter heart of isolated Indians´ land  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 15, 2003 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.survival-international.org

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  17. ^ Norman Lewis: The Missionaries. God against the Indians (London, Secker & Warburg 1988; McGraw-Hill Companies 1989; Penguin 1990), ISBN 0-07-037613-1 / ISBN 0-09-959960-0 / ISBN 0-14-013175-2 , p 221.
  18. ^ Eco Action eV: New Tribes Mission
  19. ^ Paul Gifford: Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia (Cambridge University Press 1993/2002), ISBN 0-521-42029-6 / ISBN 0-521-52010-X ., Pp. 202 and 205.
  20. ^ Paul Gifford: Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia (Cambridge University Press 1993/2002), ISBN 0-521-42029-6 / ISBN 0-521-52010-X , p. 114.
  21. BBC News: Chavez moves against US preachers , October 12, 1995
  22. Venezuela to Expel New Tribes Mission
  23. NTM Germany: Venezuelan Tribes Rally to Support NTM ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ntm.org