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Louis Lambert had those 'little old lady' belts and she would whip the tar out of you for nothing. She whipped from your ankles to the middle of your back "Because it hurt worse that way". She was single, didn't want to be at Tambo was put over the little girls dorm. That = disaster. I have NEVER forgotten that and it was 48 - 49 years ago!

Is she no longer living? I'm so sorry for what you went through. There are no words.

MS Lambert sounds like she was a very angry woman and took it out on helpless children. It seems from reading several of the posts on these forums, NTM had a lot of people who should have gone to Anger Management BEFORE ever having been allowed to go to the mission field!! The children ended up being targets for these angry frustrated people. My heart goes out to all of you who suffered at the hands of these pathetic excuses for Christians!!!

NTM.....stop the engine, walk to the back of the boat and, in the defeaning silence, as the boat coasts silently, look at what has been left in the wake and ponder if the course and direction NTM has taken over the years (and is still taking) was/is worth the destruction cause by the rush to reach the last tribe...... After such reflection, would you please consider turning the boat around and slowly backtracking, picking up the wounded, clenaing up debris left in your wake? After all this is completed, please ask yourself if NTM should continue to exist or should it be disassembled and resurected in newness. Those who wish to leave the boat then should ne encouraged to do so......

Just reflecting what would Jesus do? The good Samaritan comes to mind..........

MK py: excellent post. Good illustration.
I really think that when NTM first started, their focus was solely on the unreached tribal people. As is often joked about "anyone could get into the mission." I don't think their training even had any focus on the missionaries themselves, on marriages and family relationships. If you consider the era in which the mission also started, back when parents didn't talk very deeply with their kids anyway. Kids were to be seen and not heard. There wasn't openness. So the mission allowed all these missionaries to become part of the mission without giving them the tools they would need once they reached wherever they were going. I don't even know if they did back ground checks back then or had any way of evaluating how emotionally healthy or not people were. So these missionares end up in a place that would cause immense stress for anyone given the circumstances but combine that with the fact that they had no accountability, an atmosphere of openness was not there, and they had no tools to deal with what they were going through emotionally. It's a volcano waiting to explode. The ones who were hurt were the most defenseless ones- the kids.
I know the training has changed since way back then. There is a lot bigger focus now on relationships, conflict resolution, openness, etc. But way out in the bush where some first but mostly second generation missionaries are, how long will it take for all these changes to filter down to them? And who is going to protect the kids until the changes happen?

I think accountability is great. I think openness is important. But I don't think the abuse happened because of lack of training or emotional openness. It happened because people chose darkness rather than light, and it continued because it was allowed to continue unchecked.

MrsM, you are so right. These people all had the scriptures, and knew better than to do what they did. Certainly God will NOT excuse their behavior/sin on the basis of training, or lack of it---circumstances, location or even upbringing.

MKpy---excellent illustration!!

@ Survivor: take a look at Roger & Ellen Bailey's post regarding, I think, one of the early (and I do mean early!) boot camps they went to when first prepping for the field in the 1950s. The thread can be found in the Fredonia Boot Camp thread. Reading their post served as a bit of a reality chec; it would appear that NTM at that time was operating without a lot of the hypocrisy, etc., that later infiltrated and corrupted the organization. Roger's post highlights that and their extreme dismay at what NTM has now become.

I would recommend reading it for everyone, just to contrast what was, with what now is.

I think I may have been at NTBI with Louise Lambert. Name is familiar. Was she Canadian?

I'm not sure how this forum works. There was some mention that some of our posts or threads might disappear eventually, if they are inactive?
This is one thread I definitely don't want to see disappear: these names of child abusers in NTM.
So I'm refreshing this thread, just so we don't lose it.
The abusive missionaries named here must not be forgotten.
NTM and GRACE, we bravely spoke up and named names.
Please hear our voices.