Summer has kicked into full speed, and has been extremely busy! We have girl’s small group (which is going through a series called “Make You Think”), hip hop classes (where we break down the lyrics to the song we are learning a routine too), camping and leadership skills, beach night (swimming and a BBQ along with a short testimony), Swat (Sunday night bible study, and getting the older native Christians to share their personal hope stories), AOK outreach events (another reservation on Manitou in Island), and serve projects around Wiky (get the youth involved in serving their community).
I should remind you I’m not working on a Christian community, this place is largely into native spirituality, most of the youth we work with at NOT Christians.
However, I was blessed to go to Missouri at the beginning of July to a Native Christian youth conference called Warrior leadership Summit (WLS) hosted by Ron Hutchcraft. I was one of the chaperones, seriously that conference was so life changing, and seeing the youth so into God was truly amazing. Growing up I had a hard time feeling alone because I didn’t have any real mentors or friends that were Christian Natives.
One girl that came to WLS has been a regular at DayStar, but she’s never established a relationship with God. And seeing her break down and surrender her life to God was defiantly a prayer answered! Seeing God work within the student’s lives has been the greatest thing ever, just being able to witness a year full of prayers being answered is the greatest feeling.
This summer has completely changed, it’s completely different students and building relationships with them, which has been hard because I’m only here for three more weeks, and I’m missing the friendships from last summer and trying to find times to reconnect with them, and somehow try and reach out to them still.
There’s so much I could share, but please continue to pray for the Aboriginal people in Native America, that God will continue to reveal himself to them, and his spirit will be poured out over this place.
God Bless
Melissa
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