I think one problem is this disconnected/connected leadership model.
You have an executive board (where can you find their names on the ntm.org website?)
You have these field committees keeping track of the personal details of missionaries, their kids, and how many gallons of fuel the Kodiak used last month.
You have school boards.
You have dormparents.
You have "supporting churches".
You have New Tribes Mission.
You have Missao Novas Tribos do Brasil.
Sometimes, when you're counting the troops, you leave out the tribe of Benjamin or Asher.
Sometimes, you count everybody and a few Jebusites.
Sometimes you have 2,500 missionaries
Sometimes you have 3,000 missionaries
Sometimes you have less than 2,000 missionaries
Nobody knows anything
Nobody wrote anything
If anything was written, it might have been shredded.
To whom is the Executive Board accountable?
Is it a local pastor?
To whom is the Field Committee responsible, if the FC controls all the information flowing to the EC?
In other words, how can the EC hold the FC accountable, if the EC only receives info that the FC wants it to receive?
How can action/behavior be determined if there never is an inspection.
If I say to my kids, "Clean up your room" but never inspect........after a while, the lack of an inspection may make me too dependent on their reports.
Hey, dad, we cleaned up the room.....OK, thanks kids......what's on channel 143?
New Tribes Mission describes itself as a church when filing documents with the Florida Secretary of State.
Is it a church?
In terms of accountability, it seems that New Tribes understands accountability to be financial thing:
http://usa.ntm.org/accountabilityHere's the deal, when nobody is in really in charge, a lot of crazy stuff can happen, and nobody seems to be responsible.
Judges 21
25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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