Ryan & Sarah Warner - Serving in Papau New Guinea

Ryan grew up in a Christian home. Although saved at a young age, while attending a secular college and pursuing a degree in marketing, he truly began to seek what the Lord wanted to do with his life. After his first year of college, he decided to attend New Tribes Bible Institute where he began to get interested in tribal missions. Upon graduating, he went on a six week missions trip to Papua New Guinea where the Lord made it clear to Ryan that God wanted him involved in tribal missions.

Sarah also grew up in a Christian home. While in college, she went on a six week missions trip to Papua New Guinea. During her time in the country, God made it clear to Sarah that tribal missions work was a career that made a huge impact on eternity. Upon finishing her degree at Southwest Baptist University, she entered the training with New Tribes Mission.

Ryan and Sarah met during the last year of the training with NTM, then were married on August 5, 2006.

Currently, Ryan and Sarah are missionaries with New Tribes Mission. Through evangelism, Bible translation and discipleship, missionaries serving with New Tribes Mission are planting churches among unreached people groups.

Ryan and Sarah have been in Papua New Guinea for a year completing orientation. Upon returning to PNG, the desire of their hearts is to be tribal church planters in one of the hundreds of tribal groups that have yet to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They desire to be used by God in the following specific areas of ministry: to locate in a tribe/ethnic group of people who are unreached with the Gospel of Christ, learn the heart language and culture of that tribal group, present the gospel from Creation to Christ; laying the proper Biblical foundational truths that the unsaved must know to clearly understand the Gospel or Christ, translate the entire New Testament and significant portions of the Old Testament Scripture into the tribal language, continue to teach and disciple the new believers to maturity in Christ, seek to assist God in the establishment of a truly indigenous church, one that will function completely on its own, see tribal elders ordained that will lead the church beyond its first generation, and one day leave that location, continuing to be available to the tribal church on an "as needed" basis for the rest of their lives.

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