The leaders’ vision was clear: “By unflinching determination we hazard our lives and gamble all for Christ until we have reached the last tribe regardless of where that tribe might be.” God used Paul Fleming’s weakness and his passion for reaching the lost people groups of the world to challenge others, and so it was that in 1942 New Tribes Mission was founded as a channel through which to funnel these missionaries. Malarial attacks weakened his once-strong body, and in defeat Paul Fleming headed back to the USA.īut that’s not the end of the story. And in the Malayan jungle, a different kind of war was waging, and a tall, young missionary was rapidly becoming a casualty. World War II had not yet begun, but the threat of it was already being felt.
