Thursday, 5 September 2013
Photos - Thurs.
Navajo Ministries
We have had a busy day today with an early start - pastor's prayer at 8.00am in the centre here. Our guys led worship and we heard a presentation about a sponsored event raising money and awareness about hunger. Dave then shared about our mission and prayer needs at home. Afterwards we had coffee and cake with pastors before heading down to meet the children in the education centre.
We presented the Notebook computers to them and would you believe we had 11 and there were 11 children in the class!
We answered questions about England and then left as we had an afternoon off before coming back to have a meal with them and do a programme in the evening.
We headed out and had lunch at Taco Bell before driving over to Navajo Lake where we hired a motor boat and had a couple of hours down time. Steve, Chris J and Chris G, Mark and Alice all got in and swam. It was a lovely time to relax briefly before heading back to do ministry.
The meal was great. We sat at different tables and got chatting to the staff, house parents and children. We then led about 45 minutes of kids ministry with drama, songs etc and showed our films. There were more questions about us and our culture. They sang to us in Navajo and also did their pledge of allegiance to the flag in Navajo.
After that a local Navajo artist came with some prints that he was selling with some proceeds going to the ministry here.
Tomorrow morning we will be on Vertical Radio FM which is broadcast on the Internet if you want to tune in - it will be 9.30am our time which is about 4.30pm your time back in the UK. Then we will head back over the Rez to Gallup where we have some more ministry possibilities.
We presented the Notebook computers to them and would you believe we had 11 and there were 11 children in the class!
We answered questions about England and then left as we had an afternoon off before coming back to have a meal with them and do a programme in the evening.
We headed out and had lunch at Taco Bell before driving over to Navajo Lake where we hired a motor boat and had a couple of hours down time. Steve, Chris J and Chris G, Mark and Alice all got in and swam. It was a lovely time to relax briefly before heading back to do ministry.
The meal was great. We sat at different tables and got chatting to the staff, house parents and children. We then led about 45 minutes of kids ministry with drama, songs etc and showed our films. There were more questions about us and our culture. They sang to us in Navajo and also did their pledge of allegiance to the flag in Navajo.
After that a local Navajo artist came with some prints that he was selling with some proceeds going to the ministry here.
Tomorrow morning we will be on Vertical Radio FM which is broadcast on the Internet if you want to tune in - it will be 9.30am our time which is about 4.30pm your time back in the UK. Then we will head back over the Rez to Gallup where we have some more ministry possibilities.
Photo's - Wed.
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
We have crossed the Rez!
Today has been another fantastic day. We began with a meeting with the mayor and fed back to him all the things we have done over the past week or so. He was very encouraging and we are really praying that when he goes up for election that he will succeed so that he will be place on our next mission.
After that we went back to the church to rehearse and pack so that we could leave early afternoon to cross the reservation and go to Farmington. The journey took two and half hours and it was great to arrive at Navajo Ministries and see the welcome sign outside on the main road.
We are staying in a bunk house on site which is really comfortable.
We had a meal at a Chinese restaurant in town with Nathaniel and Rosandra from Gallup - a lovely couple who have blessed us so much on this mission. They came up from Gallup to see relatives.
We had to be at the Riverside Bread of Life church outside town by 6.30pm to take a service. It was a lovely church with great facilities and so we could show our film, project words and they had a good sound system, drums etc so we set up and did worship, drama, testimony etc. it was a really good evening with ministry time. The pastor led in English and Navajo.
We have just got back to the bunk house after a compulsory visit to Walmart - we rated this one better than the Gallup store! We even had ministry in the shop praying for a few folk whilst doing our shopping.
Tomorrow we are taking part in the pastor's prayer meeting, then to the school on site and later having tea with the kids and doing a programme with them. We are hoping to visit Navajo Lake in the afternoon.
When we got out of the cars to tonight at 10.45pm it was still overt 80 degrees F! Going to be hot night!
After that we went back to the church to rehearse and pack so that we could leave early afternoon to cross the reservation and go to Farmington. The journey took two and half hours and it was great to arrive at Navajo Ministries and see the welcome sign outside on the main road.
We are staying in a bunk house on site which is really comfortable.
We had a meal at a Chinese restaurant in town with Nathaniel and Rosandra from Gallup - a lovely couple who have blessed us so much on this mission. They came up from Gallup to see relatives.
We had to be at the Riverside Bread of Life church outside town by 6.30pm to take a service. It was a lovely church with great facilities and so we could show our film, project words and they had a good sound system, drums etc so we set up and did worship, drama, testimony etc. it was a really good evening with ministry time. The pastor led in English and Navajo.
We have just got back to the bunk house after a compulsory visit to Walmart - we rated this one better than the Gallup store! We even had ministry in the shop praying for a few folk whilst doing our shopping.
Tomorrow we are taking part in the pastor's prayer meeting, then to the school on site and later having tea with the kids and doing a programme with them. We are hoping to visit Navajo Lake in the afternoon.
When we got out of the cars to tonight at 10.45pm it was still overt 80 degrees F! Going to be hot night!
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Variety is the spice of life!
Today has been another busy and varied day and another day of 'firsts'. After devotions we set out to a residential home for the elderly run by the Sisters of the Poor. It was in a lovely area of the town and it was a really lovely facility. We were shown into the room where there must have been about 30 people, mainly Native either Navajo or Zuni. We sang and shared testimony and they responded to us. It was really worthwhile. One of the carers translated into Navajo for us. One man called Robert was particularly blessed.
After that we returned to Joshua Generation for more prayer and devotions. We then set out to do some admin downtown, get lunch, go to the cultural centre and then head back to the church to grab our gear and head out to Sunshine Canyon. We set up our canopy at the dead end and started kicking a ball about and blowing up balloons and cooking hot dogs. Sue and Alice went door to door and a crowd of kids and a couple of adults joined us. A lady came up with a little child that we had prayed with when we'd been in the area before to tell us that she had walked further than she had in months and that she had noticed an improvement immediately after the prayer. So we were able to pray again with her for further healing.
We stayed for about an hour just blessing the kids - one lad said it was the best day of his life! So humbling.
Then after Enchilladas and Frito pie made by Peewee we went down to the Coffee House to sing in the cafe. Again we were joined by folk we'd met in the town square when we did tea and a chat and whom have had an answer to our prayers today! God has provided work for them!
God is blessing our mission! We feel so very blessed. Tomorrow we head up to Farmington Navajo Ministries.
After that we returned to Joshua Generation for more prayer and devotions. We then set out to do some admin downtown, get lunch, go to the cultural centre and then head back to the church to grab our gear and head out to Sunshine Canyon. We set up our canopy at the dead end and started kicking a ball about and blowing up balloons and cooking hot dogs. Sue and Alice went door to door and a crowd of kids and a couple of adults joined us. A lady came up with a little child that we had prayed with when we'd been in the area before to tell us that she had walked further than she had in months and that she had noticed an improvement immediately after the prayer. So we were able to pray again with her for further healing.
We stayed for about an hour just blessing the kids - one lad said it was the best day of his life! So humbling.
Then after Enchilladas and Frito pie made by Peewee we went down to the Coffee House to sing in the cafe. Again we were joined by folk we'd met in the town square when we did tea and a chat and whom have had an answer to our prayers today! God has provided work for them!
God is blessing our mission! We feel so very blessed. Tomorrow we head up to Farmington Navajo Ministries.
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