Chris preached at Harrah Community Church for four weeks in January on Psalm 23 while Pastor Jim took a break. It was really great as he spent a lot of time explaining what shepherding sheep was really like.
I realized that so much of what I believed about sheep came from romanticized paintings of lily white […]

“Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the synagogue ruler, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.” - Mark 5:36
For the last few weeks, we’ve been having between 20 and 25 youth coming to our Tuesday Night Bible Study. We are continuing our study of the Gospel of Mark that we began in the summer. It has been […]

“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”
Preparations for Tuesday night’s Christmas Feast at the longhouse were in full swing when we asked the youth if they would help by decorating the longhouse and passing out […]

Michael Stalvey sent me the following pics via his cel phone. Chris is now officially the Right Reverend Granberry and the service was held in the Long House. You can see Wendell speaking in one of the photos ( I would have loved to hear that) and in the other photo is Chris sitting […]

I had a bit of a discouraging encounter yesterday. At first, anyway. I won’t give any of the particulars because I am sure the last thing this person meant to do was discourage me. Someone who has known us for a very long time was asking about our plans.
“Oh you plan to stay out there […]

True Story.
Last week, I was putting our four-year-old Asha to bed and after we finished praying for our friends in the desert (Its a lot easier to explain a desert than an Indian Reservation - think about it), Asha shared with me.
“I think I had an idea that was not very good.” She said, sheepishly. […]

I confess, I didn’t remember this story at all. When I asked Chris to take a look at our new blog, he responded with a reference from the following passage from 1 Chronicles 14:13-17.
Once more the Philistines raided the valley; so David inquired of God again, and God answered him, “Do not go straight up, […]

With thanks to our pastor, Joel Treik and his Spirit-inspired teaching Sunday morning.
Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble. And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only. Even in Thessalonica […]

It has been mentioned that Rustlings might be an unfortunate title for our blog, as we are moving out west where cattle thieves are immortalized in the western films of the 50s and 60s.
We are not moving to the Yakama Indian Reservation to become rustlers but to be rustled… I’ll explain:
The name originally came to […]