“Do you ever have need for adult volunteers” the short message sent via our website asked!
Responding to the request, we listed a few areas where our ministry can make use of volunteer workers. We also asked about particular our responders areas of interest . While exchanging emails…
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Trail to Peace
I sat in stone silence looking at the white man sitting a few feet away from me. My heart was cold toward him, and I assumed he felt the same about me.
This man called Sonny Jaynes had taken me into his home to help me overcome my alcohol addiction — the relentless killer of Native Americans.
The Maasai Meet The Nimiipuu
By Volkhard Graf with contributions from Patricia Angle, December 15, 2014 Recently, a special cross-cultural event took place at the Nez Perce Pinewaus Community Center. Colorful Maasai warriors met the Nez Perce in a cultural exchange. Both cultures were at full display, which included dancing, art work, and of course food! True to Native tradition, the […]
Falling Into Place–A Story of Overcoming
For someone on the outside looking in, she had it all. Beauty, notoriety, influence, financial security. Millions of people regularly watched her news reports on the national TV show, CBS This Morning. She had won several Emmy Awards for her outstanding work, rubbed shoulders with Presidents, First Ladies, Actors and Musicians and covered human interest stories from wildfires to crimes. However, when her husband of seventeen years unexpectedly asked for a divorce, she was thrown into a deep emotional crisis, questioning her identity and value.
From Desparation To Freedom
My name is Donna. I am 39 years old and I have a seventeen-year-old son. When I was 6 weeks old a loving Christian couple adopted me. I am half African American and half Native American. On the outside my family appeared great. On the inside we were not great. My dad struggled with alcoholism.
I didn’t know than that a lifestyle of partying would turn into a life lived in desperation. I became desperate for a drink, desperate to get high, and desperate for someone to love me. My spirit was desperate for Jesus. He was calling me, but I was to busy being desperate for the wrong things to hear his voice.
Volunteer champions making a real difference
“Do you ever have need for adult volunteers” the short message sent via our website asked!
Responding to the request, we listed a few areas where our ministry can make use of volunteer workers. We also asked about particular our responders areas of interest . While exchanging emails…
YWAMers in Native Ministry gather in Flagstaff
This Fall, YWAMers in Native Ministry from across the US gathered at YWAM Tribalwinds in Flagstaff, Arizona. As a group we visited one of the Hopi communities, presented protocol gifts and expressed publicly our sorrow for sins, injustices, and shortcomings of the distant and recent past. We were also able to share that we desire […]
Not to be served but to serve
A team of 74 young people and adults descended upon Kamiah during the last week of July to serve and share the love of Jesus with members of the Kamiah and Lapwai community. They were invited by YWAM Native Ministries, the Nez Perce Indian Churches and the Wa-A’Yas and Pinewaus Community Centers. During their time here […]