Four Corners Native American Ministry
A Navajo Cooperative Parish
United Methodist Church
New Mexico Annual Conference
Navajo Parish News, vol. 1.3 October 2009
In This Issue
Navajo Bibles
Lay Speaking Ministries
Shiprock Fair
Heather Bishop
Horizons
Cross and Flame
 
The FCNAM Family

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FCNAM Churches
Shiprock UMC
Window Rock UMC
Ojo Amarillo UMC
Dowozhii Bikooh UMC
Blue Gap UMC
Tselani Valley UMC
Bistahi UMC
 
 
Local Ministries
Childrens' Day Care
Thrift Shop
 
 
Independent 
Outreach Congregations
Aneth
Burnt Corn
Cove
Kitsillie
Lakeside
Many Farms North
Many Farms West
Nashchitti
Oljato
Pinedale
Red Valley
Roughside
Sawmill
Spider Rock
Spirit Lake
Tohatchi
White Cone
White Rock Point 
 
 
Thank your for your prayers for
 the Navajo Nation.
 Navajo Bible 2
DIYIN GOD BIZAAD (Navajo Bibles)
For $21 (plus shipping), you can invest in a leather-bound Navajo Bible published by the American Bible Society for distribution to individual Navajos in our ministry. These bibles are greatly popular, and we are currently in need of more. You may either send money to the FCNAM ministry office or purchase the bibles directly from the American Bible Society (see link below) and have them shipped to us.
 
 
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Four Corners Native American Ministry
P.O. Box 400 / Hwy 64 East
Shiprock, New Mexico 87420
 

Sandy and Fred
FCNAM launches Lay Speaking Ministries program!
Sandy Jackson of the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church, Nashville, TN and author of the Basic Course of the Lay Speaking Ministries was the special guest speaker for our Leadership Training Event at Shiprock UMC on September 26. Sandy introduced the program and lead some 40 attendees through the first session of the Basic Course, which will become the foundational curriculum of our leadership training program. While visiting the Four Corners area, Sandy also provided the Sunday morning message at Ojo Amarillo UMC and Shiprock UMC as well as leading an Albuquerque DCOM-sponsored gathering at Bloomfield UMC on the Certified Lay Minister program. Sandy is pictured above with the Rev. Fred Yazzie after the morning service at Ojo Amarillo UMC.                                   
 

Shiprock Chuckwagon

Shiprock Fair Celebrates Navajo Culture

The Navajo Nation and thousands of its friends and supporters converged on Shiprock, September 25 - October 4, for the 98th Annual Shiprock Navajo Fair with its theme, A Salute to Diné Heritage. The week-long fair included traditional Navajo dancing (Ye'ii Bi Chei), an all Nations pow-wow, a rodeo, markets, pageants, agricultural contests and alot of family reunions. Members of the Shiprock UMC began parade day (October 3) at 4am setting up their 'chuckwagon' on the parade route in front of the ministry office and selling breakfast buritos as a fundraiser for the Shiprock church (see photo above of Ada, Frank and Fanny). The tent revival ministry of the Rev. Roger Tsosie, pastor of the Window Rock UMC, entered the parade with a float sharing live gospel music (see below). Window Rock UMC and Sawmill UMC also participated the Navajo Nation Fair in Window Rock, AZ held in September.      

Roger's Tent Ministry at Shiprock Fair

 
Commissioning of FCNAM US-2 missionary, Heather Bishop, to be live internet broadcast
On October 14, FCNAM will receive Heather Bishop as a two-year US-2 missionary through the General Board of Global Ministries. Although Heather will be properly introduced in future correspondences, this is the first time that a service of commissioning of United Methodist missionaries, deaconesses and home missioners will be broadcast live on the internet.
The service will take place on Tuesday, October 13, during the annual meeting of directors of the General Board of Global Ministries, in Stamford, Connecticut at 7:00 p.m. EDT. Thirty-one missionaries, seven deaconesses and two home missioners will be commissioned. 
 
The webcast provides an opportunity for United Methodists to take part virtually in the sacred experience of blessing and commitment inherent in Christian commissioning.  Additional details on the commissioning service can be found online at:
Horizons: Views from ShiprockShiprock Mountain 
With the simultaneous arrival of the autumnal winds and the thousands of pilgrims for the Shiprock fair merging on the dirt-covered fairgrounds, the recent views from Shiprock have literally been ones of dusty haze. With afternoon temperatures still rather warm, thoughts of water are never far away.
 
On this front, good news came to the reservation this past week.  On October 1, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined New Mexico's congressional delegation to advance a vital water supply project that will provide clean, safe and reliable water to a quarter of a million people in the Navajo Nation, the City of Gallup and the Jicarilla Apache Nation.  The action clears the way for resolving the Navajo Nation's long-standing water rights claims in the state. More information on the Navajo water project can be found at:  
Upcoming Events
Commissioning of Heather Bishop, FCNAM US-2, webcast (October 13)
Leadership Training Event, Shiprock (November 7) 
Navajo Women's Conference, Shiprock (November 11-14)
Leadership Training Event, Shiprock (February 13, 2010)
Leadership Training Event, Shiprock (March 6, 2010) 
Equipping Navajo Saints (June 13-19, 2010)
Mid-High and Senior High Youth Camp, Sacramento Methodist Assembly (June 21-26) 

Sharing God's Love and Reconciliation with the Navajo Nation  

through Christ-Centered Congregational Development and Community Outreach

Contact Info
Rev. Rodney Aist, Ph.D.
Director, Four Corners Native American Ministry
P.O. 400 / Hwy 64 East
Shiprock, New Mexico 87420
505-368-4402 (tel/fax)
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