1. Build relationship bridges, one
person at a time with women on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations and those in Rapid
City, SD
2. Step out in faith to break demonic strongholds of hatred, violence and unforgiveness
3. Focus on addressing how "our father’s house and we have sinned against
them" with the tools of Nehemiah: repentance, confession, forgiveness,
reconciliation, and restitution
4. Through the vehicle of cultural expression (like the Hula Ministry), we help them to
use their dance, arts, crafts, music to bring glory and praise to God and to effectively
minister around the world where they are more immediately welcomed and trusted than many
more traditional Americans
"I have witnessed relationship first,
then reconciliation
and I have seen reconciliation followed by relationship. Regardless of which comes first,
our relationships are bridges that will endure forever and over which great, loving armies
of ministry can flow both ways
-- to and from God’s First Nations’ People."
-- Richard Twiss, One Church, Many Tribes
With inspiration from
the summer mission to South Dakota, Lisa Roberts, Project Representative from "The
Jesus Film.org", put together our first newsletter. It is full of inspiring tales from the trip and we hope that you enjoy
it.
A brother or sister in Christ
may need clothes or food. If you say to that person, "God be with you. I hope you
stay warm and get plenty to eat," but you do not give what that person needs, your
words are worth nothing.
James 2:15-16 |
