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As a missionary kid growing up in a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea, God blessed me so much with being able to see clearly the difference between God’s truths and the world’s lies. Coming back to the USA was a huge shock for me -- seeing how mixed up everything is.

As I have spent the last four years in America, I have grown to understand more and more the importance of truth. I have learned that wisdom can not only be gained by my experience, but other’s experiences.

In order to gain more wisdom, I plan on attending New Tribes Bible School in Waukesha, Wisconsin. There I can learn not only deep wisdom from the Bible, but also facts and truths that can help me battle the lies of this world.

New Tribes Bible Institute is a school that is fully devoted to truth.

The two year program will walk me through the Bible with a curriculum that is derived from the wisdom of many great Bible scholars. Students are encouraged to study the Bible for themselves and the school works towards the goal of preparing us to be effective ambassadors for truth.

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Do you think Angie will find what she's looking for?

Many people have asked me why I want to go study the Bible instead of going to another college where I can get a degree in something that I can "really use.” I’ve actually been encouraged to pursue some sort of career, rather than taking two years to just study the Bible.

I can think of no better use of my time than getting grounded in the Word of God. No matter who, where, or what God has planned for my future, I know that what I'm taught from the Bible will be the most important foundation of my life and something I will use every day for the rest of my life.

I am frequently asked, “So what do you want to do with your life?” My honest answer is, “I’m going to walk with God — wherever He may lead.”

At this point, I really have no clue which direction that is going to be. He’s still keeping it a surprise!

I want more than anything to be the humble, willing servant that responds “How high, Lord?” when He asks me to “JUMP!”

And right now, He’s asking me to jump! How high?

Bible school!

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Do you agree with Jenna's reasons for coming?

Yesterday was my first day in classes. Oh boy, it was quite a day!

Even though I haven't been getting much sleep, I've been able to stay awake during class and chapel. It's fun because we have chapel everyday.

It's not like any chapel I've been to. We don't have worship at every one because sometimes it's just like announcements and such. The thing that is completely different is that here, everything feels like family.

During chapel, people from the crowd were just talking to the speaker and he was just responding. It was so different for me because chapel at my school always just seemed like a boring thing we had to do every Thursday.

I'm now looking forward to chapel hour each day.

Find out what you would study if you attended NTBI: Course Schedule

I must say that moving up here to Wisconsin has been one of the biggest steps of faith God has asked me to make. I’ve wanted to come to New Tribes Bible Institute since I was five, but that doesn’t mean that I was prepared for everything that came with it.

It’s been pretty hard to move away from a wonderful family and close friends. I love everyone at home so much and it will be different living clear across the country from them. It’s a new step to rely on God to take care of me this far from home, but I know He is faithful and He alone is enough.

Orientation started last Sunday and lasted till Tuesday. There were so many things to get use to and it was nice to listen to the speaker, sing songs and get acquainted with dorm life. When classes started on Wednesday morning things stared getting a little busy. My first classes are Biblical Foundations, Bibliology, Evangelism in a Post-Modern World and Job.

My favorite class is Job. I’ve read through it before on my own, but I never really understood the intensity of it before. Job was a good man. He had a relationship with God and God was allowing Him to go through a trial. I never really got that much out of it, but my teacher Dave Hodgdon has already taught me so much!

Job did have a reverence for God like no other. His only response to the devastation of everything he has was to fall to the ground in worship to God. Would that be our response if everything was ripped away from us? Even though Job loved and obeyed God’s commands he still was sinful and had a lot to learn. God used this time of suffering in his life to teach him more about Himself.

I love being here at Bible School and I am so excited to learn everything that God has to teach me.

Katrina Abbott
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For almost the past two years, I set my heart and dreams against not going to NTBI. My brother decided to go the winter of his senior year and the next fall he was in Jackson, Michigan. I didn't want to go then, and I was certainly against going when he came back for Christmas break. We were all sitting around the dinner table one night and he was talking about how great it was. He told my sister that she should just go the spring semester. She said, "why not?" and from there she had two weeks to get ready to go to college in the middle of her senior year.

Then, my sister left with my brother on a plane to Michigan in the freezing cold of January. Everyone asked me then if I was going to New Tribes, and I kept telling them no. She met a boy and came back home in the summer with my brother. They talked about New Tribes all the time and to everybody. They kept saying I needed to go but I kept saying no. This time, I was more and more confident. I was adamantly saying that I would not go there. I was really stubborn. My heart and my soul were set against New Tribes. I hated the thought of ever going there.

I got an amazing opportunity at the end of last summer to go on a huge "across America" road trip with my grandparents. Along the way, we dropped off my brother, sister, and her boyfriend (at the time) at school (New Tribes Bible Institute) and I got to be on campus for a few days. I hung out with some of the kids that were there, toured the school, and met some people.

One day my sister was introducing me to everyone and everyone she introduced me to asked me if I was going to go there. Of course my answer was no. Then she introduced me to the dean of the school. He asked me if I was planning on attending school at New Tribes Bible Institute. I said no. Instead of looking shocked like everyone else, he looked at me, smiled, and said, "You know what, it's a good thing your not coming here. God probably wants you somewhere else, and if God doesn't want you here, then I don't want you here." I went back to school, back to volleyball, back to normal high school junior life and then my sister got engaged. She spent the spring semester of my junior year at home planning her wedding and I got to spend a lot of time with her.

That first semester, what the dean of New Tribes said to me had been tugging at my heart. One day me and my sister went out for ice cream and we ended up having a really long talk. I told her that I wanted to go to New Tribes, and not just during the normal time, but to go during my spring semester of my senior year like she did. I'd be giving up a lot, but I really wanted to do that. I have NO idea why I even said it. My heart just changed. It seemed like God popped the words right out of my mouth that had been in my heart all along.

I was so stubborn and set on planning my own life that after a while of being so hard hearted, God started to mold me back into His loving creation. He took me when I didn't want to be taken, and He made me into what I am supposed to be. I still don't really get my desire to go to New Tribes and I don't know if I'll go to the mission field. But I do know that trying to make decisions on my own and living a life for myself doesn't help me at all -- that everything I do, I've got to give it to God, and He'll take care of it for me. It's just that simple.

Kirsten Duron