We began training with New Tribes Mission in August of 2003. For the first two years we attended New Tribes Bible Institute in Waukesha, WI. When we graduated there in May of 2005 we continued our training in Jersey Shore, PA at New Tribes Missions Institute where we studied the practical aspects of tribal church planting like church planting principles and jungle living skills. In May of 2006 we finished there and moved to Camdenton, MO to attend New Tribes Language Institute. Here we finished our training with instruction in learning unwritten languages, teaching literacy, translation and Tim spent an extra semester studying advanced linguistics. We finished in December of 2007 with a bachelors degree in Biblical and intercultural studies.