“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 […]
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Dear Isaac,
Last night, October 20, 2009, you were baptized. The baptism was conducted by Uncle Chris at the Toppenish Creek Longhouse in White Swan, Washington on The Yakama Indian Reservation. You were five months old so I doubt you will remember much about the night, so I thought […]
We had our third big youth event about 10 days ago when we took about 32 youth from the community to a corn maze for some fun and fellowship and bonfire. This was a followup to another big outing in September with 25 youth to a family fun center in Yakima. I’ve been really excited […]
With the beginning of the summer, we moved the youth group meetings to coincide with the Bible Study at the Long House on Tuesday night. During the last few weeks we have been studying the book of Mark with 12-15 youth every week. It has been really exciting and challenging as we have sought to […]
Camp High Rock was a great success!!! Thanks to many of you for donating extra funds to cover camp expenses. We ended up getting more help than we needed so that we have some funds to put toward next year’s camp.
Camp was great for me as I had never really done the church camp experience. […]
One of the real treats of the summer was working with the summer interns and the visiting teams from churches. Participating with a summer team was the experience that God used to call Neena and I to the Reservation, so it was interesting to see the teams from the staff side of the fence.
It is […]
There was one special day with the teams from Highlands Presbyterian Church in Mississippi and Bellewood Presbyterian Church in Washington when we were asked by Jack Spencer if we could help repair his fishing scaffold on the Columbia River. There had been a big wind earlier in the week and it had knocked it down. […]
I was blessed to be able to attend a pow wow in the Toppenish long house last Saturday evening. It was a really interesting time and I had never been to the long house in Toppenish - turns out it is basically next door to the casino. I was there for about four hours and […]
Well, we’ve been living on the Reservation for almost three weeks now. It sounds crazy when I think about the fact that I am living on an Indian Reservation. God has been so good to us throughout our transition. It was so much harder saying good bye to our friends and family than I imagined […]