Native Americans

This Month's Articles

The Editorial of Ralph D. Winter Editorial

The Editorial of Ralph D. Winter

What is the saddest story in American history?

There have been a lot of them. Certainly one of the saddest was the time in colonial Massachusetts when fourteen friendly "Christian Indian...

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Native Americans Seek their True Creator

An Urban Church Planting Case Study

After talking with an Indian woman about the Jesus Way, she could not understand that we did not include in our Indian Fellowship some of the Indian spiritual ceremonies to the Creator. Some...

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Native American Peoples Feature

Native American Peoples

Who is going to love them?

Christine had seven children. Their father had died years before, leaving her as a young widow to rear them alone. She did what she could, but with two social liabilities: she was a single mom and...

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CHIEF Christian Hope Indian Eskimo Fellowship Training Native Americans to reach Native Americans

An Interview with Rev. Tom Claus

We are very pleased to present the following interview with Rev. Tom Claus, President and Founder of Christian Hope Indian Eskimo Fellowship (CHIEF) Inc. located in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a Mohawk...

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Speaking from the Heart: An interview with a Native American who shares frankly about life as a Chri Feature

Speaking from the Heart: An interview with a Native American who shares frankly about life as a Chri

MF: Share with us a little about your background and how you came to know the Lord.

FAITH: My name is Faith Mexicano and I am a Native American from the Navajo tribe in Arizona. I grew up on the...

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What Can We Do to Reach Native Americans? Some Helpful Suggestions. Feature

What Can We Do to Reach Native Americans? Some Helpful Suggestions.

  1. Educate yourself concerning ministry to Native Americans. Contact CHIEF for a catalog of educational tapes from their Sonrise '92 conference. A more complete listing of agencies and resources is...
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200 Unreached Peoples In Our Midst: A Legacy of Tears—A Future of Hope Feature

200 Unreached Peoples In Our Midst: A Legacy of Tears—A Future of Hope

Do you know what comes to the Navajo reservation every summer?" The Navajo young woman asked during one of the seminars at Urbana '93. Without waiting for an answer, she said, with tears streaming...

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The Picuris Pueblo An Unreached People Group in America Feature

The Picuris Pueblo An Unreached People Group in America

How could there be an unreached people group in the USA? Can't they turn on the TV and radio to listen to the gospel? Haven't they met Christians in a shopping mall? Common questions. Reasonable...

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Reconciliation: Feature

Reconciliation:

Overcoming the Hurts of the Past So They Can See Jesus

Jean Steffenson is the editor of The Reconciler, published by the Native American Chapter of the Reconciliation Coalition. She and her ministry are a part of the United Prayer Network of the AD2000...

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Whose Culture Contains The Real Communication Barriers? Feature

Whose Culture Contains The Real Communication Barriers?

God uses various ways to overcome cultural barriers--and a personal discovery about one's own culture may be one!

When my wife Kathleen and I were enjoying field work among the Florida Seminoles,...

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Am I A Real Missionary? Feature

Am I A Real Missionary?

"And now will all the missionaries here for the missions conference please stand up?" This is a familiar question at the missions conferences my husband and I have attended. Seated throughout the...

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My Turn Other

My Turn

What will it take to win the world to Christ?

The history of missions is the fascinating story of human struggles and adventure. The missionary saga is often interlaced with emotions, tragedy, romance and intrigue. Christianity is the world's...

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AD 2000 Update Other

AD 2000 Update

GCOWE '95, Global Consultation on World Evangelization by the Year 2000 & Beyond in Seoul, Korea

Introduction

GCOWE '95 is a mid-decade global strategy meeting on world evangelization to be held in Seoul, Korea, May 17-26, 1995. The theme of GCOWE '95 is: "A church for every people and the...

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AD2000 News and Updates Other

AD2000 News and Updates

Global In-Country Survey Update and Report from Annual Regional Coordinators Meeting, February 1-5 1994

Global In-Country Survey Update

At the top of the following page you can see the latest map showing the country by country progress of the Global In-Country Survey. The AD 2000 Movement is...

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World Evangelization: Other

World Evangelization:

Is It Possible by AD 2000?

Never in the history of the church have there been so many special program and campaigns, literally around the entire world. The highest goals and aims in the history of the Church are being set by...

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Destination: 2000AD Feature

Destination: 2000AD

Teaching the Missions Basis of the Bible - An Interview with its founder, Bob Sjogren

MF: How did Destination 2000 get started?

BOB: Don Richardson selected me, along with two other people, to help in delivering his nation-wide seminar called, "The 4000 Year Connection." Then in...

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Fresh News from the Center April 1994 Other

Fresh News from the Center April 1994

The Gospel Spreads Across the CIS

Over 27,000,000 Bibles, New Testaments, Bible study materials, and tracts have now been distributed in Russ ia and the CIS just in the past two years. Currently,...

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Through the Language of Their Hearts Feature

Through the Language of Their Hearts

God Speaks to Native Americans Through His Translated Word.

Who would have thought that Russian Glasnost would have a direct effect upon two Wycliffe missionaries who were translating the New Testament into Eskimo?  It happened on Alaska's St. Lawrence...

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