You might have
heard that New Tribes Mission has changed their name; it’s now called Ethnos360.
I wanted to give a little update on what that means for us.
The vision for
Ethnos360 is exactly the same as New Tribes Mission, it just uses more
culturally appropriate language for the various places they work, stepping away
from language that can be offensive or dangerous (such as “tribes” and “mission”).
Ethnos still represents the people groups that are the heart of NTM, and 360
represents the globe. The vision is still the same, there’s just a new face.
Right now NewTribes Mission Aviation has not changed their name, although I suspect they
will change soon to maintain continuity across the board. Until that happens,
we still work for New Tribes Mission Aviation in Papua New Guinea.
Each separate field
has the choice to use a culturally appropriate name, and in Papua New Guinea it
would actually hurt us more to step away from the ties that NTM has here by
changing our name. The relationships, paperwork, and legacy that exists here
under the banner of New Tribes Mission is a generally good one, and changing
that could potentially damage those ties. This name change from NTM to
Ethnos360 only applies to the USA employees.
So, to sum up how
this name change affects Josh and I:
In America we are
now:Ethnos360andNew Tribes Mission
Aviation
In Papua New Guinea
we are:New Tribes MissionandNew Tribes Mission
Aviation
If anything
changes, we will be sure to let you know! I just wanted to provide a little bit
of clarity on this big change within our mission, and how it relates to us.
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