Thank you all for being such an important part of the ministry God has given us here at Western Indian Ministries, in Tse Bonito, NM, 1/2 mile east of Window Rock, AZ, on highway 264. I tell you where we are, because if I were not here I would not know where the place was located either. Living in an unincorporated area so close to the Arizona/New Mexico border makes it very difficult at times to get packages. We have at least four different addresses depending on whether we are getting something from the US Postal Service, UPS, FedEx, or just plain need a New Mexico address. That's just one of the many interesting parts of life as a missionary!
WIM will be commemorating their 75th year in ministry to the Navajo people this year. We have a new director who has a great vision for what we can do our next 75 years. I certainly sense God working here and pointing us in a direction that will very likely transform the ministry. With exciting possibilities in mind, the leadership--and some others--will be having a visioning retreat this coming Sunday evening, all day Monday, and until Tuesday late afternoon. The goal is for all of us to come before the Lord to see what He would have us do. At this point, we have three radio stations, a school (PK-5th), and a Navajo man who counsels and is the Navajo Nation police chaplain. It's a time for renewal and new vision.
Please pray for us as we meet next week. Pray that we will be totally focused on God and not on the problems we might be facing or the complaints we might have. Please pray that we will be united, as we receive from the Lord, what He has for us. Finally, pray that the Lord will teach us all to work together, especially as we learn how to better work with our cross-cultural partners--our Navajo brothers and sisters.
Steve Marti
p.s. here's an excerpt of the memo Chuck (our director) sent to us so you'll better know how to pray:
1. Please be praying about our time together. Get others to pray. We can't stress how important prayer is to this time together.
Prayer Questions – a reminder…
1.Lord – what are you doing that we can join you in?
2.What are we doing that we need to stop?
3.What are we not doing that we need to start?
4.What part do you want me to play to put into practice what we’re doing today?
As you pray and dream about
this, we want to hear from God. His thoughts from heaven to earth -
not earth towards heaven.... (MAKE SENSE? You want God's thoughts
revealed in / through us. Not our thoughts imposed upon God so He feels
'obligated' to do them in order to make us feel good about ourselves or
about the stuff we'd like to see happen.)
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