NEW TRIBES MISSION  |  planting tribal churches

Creative ways to promote missions

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Hold a missions Bible study

Invite people to look at topics relevant to missions. Here are some books and ideas to get you started:

• Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper (www.desiringgod.org >>)
• Serving as Senders by Neal Pirolo (www.eri.org >>)
• Perspectives developed by Dr. Ralph Winter from the U.S. Center for World Missions (www.perspectives.org.au >>)
• A Mind for Missions: Ten Ways to Build Your World Vision by Paul Borthwick
• Seminars by the Worldview Resource Group (www.wrg3.org >>)

Host a dessert party

Invite some friends over for dessert and mix it with some insight on missions. Have a missionary or missionary kid tell their story; show a missionary video or discuss an article from NTM@work ; pray together for missionary prayer requests.

• NTM@work magazine
• Weekly Digest E-mail

Share the word about NTM

• Take a friend through the NTM website
• Download and print, or order, NTM materials and give them to people interested in missions
  • NTM Brochure (PDF format) >>
  • NTM Associate Brochure (PDF format) >>
• Share NTM DVDs/videos or give items with the NTM logo and website address. Contact our bookstore and ask what's available >>
  Here are some of the suggested items that you may want to get
  • The Burnham Story DVD
  • Reachable DVD
  • EE-Taow DVD/Video (The Mouk Story & The Next Chapter)
  • The Taliobo Story DVD/Video (The Talibo Story & Delivered From The Power of Darkness)
• Print NTM news stories and distribute them, or post them on a bulletin board. Go to the news page >>

Help individuals connect with NTM missionaries

• Give a friend a missionary's address, a blank card, an envelope and postage
• Give a friend a missionary's phone number and a phone card
• Give a friend a missionary's e-mail address
• Introduce missionaries on home assignment or home staff to your friends

Talk to your church leaders

Spend time with you church leaders – pastor, missions pastor, elders, missions committee – and talk about missions. Share NTM's vision, and discuss the idea of the church partnering with NTM or with an NTM missionary.

Promote a missionary

Become an advocate for a missionary in your church, group, study, or circle of friends by

• Talking about their vision for ministry
• Sharing their prayer requests
• Encouraging people to give to meet their financial needs

Encourage prayer for tribal missions

Subscribe to NTM's Weekly Digest e-mail list, and share the requests with your church, your small group, or your friends.

Adopt a project

Find an NTM project that you would like to get involved with your church, group, study, or circle of friends. Have a bake sale or a garage sale, or find creative ways for others to help raise funds, such as walkathons or auctions.