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INDIAN MINISTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA INC. Pg. 3 Indian Ministries of North America, Inc. Summer 2013 Volume 12—Number 2 Founder James A. Hughes Executive Director / President Johnny K. Hughes Asst. Exec. Director / Secretary Becky Hughes Vice President Director of Ministries Rodney LaVallie Directors Chris Allen Fred Carder Troy Dailey Ken Davis James Herring Doug Payne Chief Anne Richardson Rock Slaughter Tommy Walker Request your copy today Office Indian Ministries of North America, Inc. Email: P.O. Box 3472 Cleveland, TN 37320 [email protected] Physical Location Spirit Rain - $10.00 911 Keith St. NW Cleveland, Tennessee Breath of Heaven - $15.00 Phone: (423)479-3831 www.indianministries.org Page 2 Altar of Praise - $15.00 ndian Ministries of North America has partnered stated, “It was a thrill to see the faces of these children I with the Church of God World Missions’ Marcelly’s as they opened these beautiful Bibles and began to Dream Project. Since the launch of the project on explore the pages of God’s word. They were excited to November 11, 2012, the compelling story of Jesus have their own Bible and to see the beautiful appearing in a dream to a 7-year-old girl, telling her she illustrations inside. Parents thanked our team for caring would preach the gospel to children in Africa, has enough about their children to share the Word, as well created a groundswell of ministry and support. as the physical gifts that were taken.” The dream has become a worldwide missions project Church of God World Missions Director Tim Hill focusing on providing support in four basic areas: the relates the day last summer when God revealed to him a Word (Bibles to orphans, expanded to junior youth coming time of multiplied harvest. He called it an camps), water, walls and wellness. (For more “Amos 9:13 season.” It is described in the New Living information, visit the World Missions website at Translation this way: “The time will come,” says the www.marcellysdream.org.) Lord, “when the grain and grapes will grow faster than Members of IMNA’s summer RELEASE team, a they can be harvested. Then the terraced vineyards on group of indigenous youth from North America, went the hills of Israel will drip with sweet wine!” to various Native American To date, Marcelly’s Dream has had an initial impact Reservations and on over 3,500 children in orphanages, placing a Bible communities during the into the hands of children in over a dozen countries and month of June and several junior stateside youth camps, provided training took Bibles to over and support for caregivers in over two dozen 100 children. IMNA’s orphanages, approving multiple water projects and Executive Director, building projects. (Excerpts from this article from Johnny K. Hughes, John Sweet / Church of God World Missions) Karla Scoggin presents a Bible to a young boy on the Pine Ridge Reservation, SD. Page 3 n the last issue I shared a dream and the generational curses of my Native American I that I had about the tale of two brothers. A Spirit of Poverty cradles our people in it’s giants. In that dream, I saw the wicked arms and lays them out daily, begging for a figure of a giant Native American handout. What got them to this need for dependence on staked and tied to the ground by others? ropes labeled with strongholds and Recently, on a trip to the Washita Memorial entrapments that held him down. He was struggling to Museum in Cheyenne, Oklahoma, I read where the loose himself to no avail. Lying across from him was troops had forced the Plains Indians, such as the another giant which I saw labeled the church. This Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota and others onto designated dream has been constantly on my mind and I continue to lands or reservations. It stated that these nomadic hunters pray for clarification of the dream. who followed the buffalo and hunted the land for their survival, were forced to live in one designated area, I was recently studying in the book of Acts, when where the game had been overhunted and some to near the Lord led me to Chapter 3. As I read the account of extinction. The people were starving. The government Peter and John encountering the lame man at the gate sent seeds and other farming supplies and told them to called Beautiful, God began to show me a clearer fend for themselves. However, you have a people who definition of the dream. The man, who had been lame were great hunters and not farmers, forced to learn a new from birth, was carried to the gate each morning to beg lifestyle to survive. To assist these great hunters, the for alms. I immediately Federal Government began to send food rations and realized a parallel to this supplies. This caused a dependency on the government, the very ones who placed them in these As the people reach out for the hand out, we must extend our right hand of strength and declare, “ARISE.” Page 4 open prisons or land trusts. America the Beautiful, the continuing today. I have been there to see churches gate to freedom, had now become the place where our going out in the name of Jesus, many times tripping proud brothers and sisters were forced to beg to survive. over each other, to give a hand out. Don’t get me wrong, Unfortunately, many of their cries for help were met I am not against benevolence and caring for the physical with blankets laced with small-pox and other infectious needs of the poor, but we must not lose focus on the diseases, and rations of rancid meat to feed their family. whole picture. I have yet to see a young person commit suicide, who was starving and naked. What good are we The poverty that exists among our Native people doing when we send out armies of people into is one of physical, but more importantly spiritual. The neighborhoods to hand out sack lunches or put a fresh generational, spiritual strongholds that bind our people, coat of colorful paint on the exterior of a home, place them in a position of believing that this is the life knowing the inside is ruled by darkness and is they must live and there is no escaping it. This opens the collapsing from within. doors to alcoholism, drug addictions, suicide and many other mental and physical diseases. The Church has the There comes a time when it is more about the answer, and like Peter and John, we must affix our eyes souls and finding a way to disciple and train people in on America’s First People, the First Fruits of this nation, the ways of Jesus, than it is to put a feather in our and speak forth, “Look on us.” It is more than a missions’ cap. Going into a neighborhood to build a handout, it is a life and death emergency. They need church and return home to show off the photographs of Christ just as any other indigenous people around the the beautiful exterior, but failing to advise that the world. The Church needs to be the example and interior has no electricity, sheetrock or flooring. Whose breakout of the mindset that we just keep enabling the Kingdom are we building? hand-out mentality that the government started and is It breaks my heart to minister in a community where we find spiritually hungry people, but no one there to disciple them when we leave. Church we have the answer. Like Peter and John, we must say, “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, I give to you.” As the people reach out for the hand out, we must extend our right hand of strength and declare, “ARISE.” Then as the Holy Spirit within us rises up, we will be able to see the strength return to their bodies and legs. Then we will see the Native American people take their rightful place as spiritual leaders in these last days. Arise my brother; the time has come to check into your destiny. Your Reservation has been confirmed and now by the power of the Holy Spirit I speak life into the plan that was to bring death. You have been Reserved for this time, now ARISE! Page 5 ABOVE: Citizens of the Red Water Community look through new clothes at the outreach on the Choctaw Reservation in Mississippi. TOP LEFT: Johnny Hughes worships on the Native American flute in the Red Water worship service. ABOVE: Members of the Pearl River Community, in Choctaw, Mississippi, sing a hymn for the RELEASE team in their Native language. BELOW: The Cheyenne children of Hammon, OK worship as Rodney LaVallie and team lead. ABOVE: Jonathan LaVallie, a RELEASE team member, plays basketball with a Pine Ridge Reservation youth from the Evergreen community. TOP RIGHT: Alex Little of the Evergreen community is guarded by Manuel Scoggins, RELEASE team member. MIDDLE RIGHT: A young Choctaw girl models one of the new dresses she found at the Pearl River outreach on the banks of Lake Pushmataha. RIGHT: Caleb Ruiz and Elizabeth Hughes, RELEASE team members, visit with Bailey in Hammon, OK. Page 6 ABOVE: Jonathan LaVallie, a RELEASE team member, plays basketball with a Pine Ridge Reservation youth from the Evergreen community. TOP RIGHT: Alex Little of the Evergreen community is guarded by Manuel Scoggins, RELEASE team member. MIDDLE RIGHT: A young Choctaw girl models one of the new dresses she found at the Pearl River outreach on the banks of Lake Pushmataha.