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Healthy Families, Religious Involvement Reduce Risk for Adolescent Substance Abuse

I'm at the Wesleyan Native Ministries Board Meeting in Indianapolis, where we've just received an amazing report from Pastor Larry Salway regarding the work of He Sapa Church in the Rapid City area. Over 100 people have received Christ as a direct result of their ministry. They are sending out 41 dvd's of their worship gatherings to home churches which have been formed in such places as Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Minneapolis, Crow (Montana) and Sioux Falls -- so He Sapa is truly a church distributed. It's a multi-state multi-site congregation! Kudo's to Pastor Larry who is truly making a difference.

Dakota District Honors Native American Leaders

Spent a wonderful day with Rich Avery, Director of Wesleyan Native American Ministries, his son Brandon, Pastor Ben Drown, and Ralph Jacobson, who served as the chauffer. This was Rich's first visit to Hayward, so we gave him the grand tour of the LCO Reservation, and introduced him to several of our ministry leaders as well as our missions committee. Rich is an outstanding leader. He gave us some keen insights, which will be quite helpful to us as we continue to build bridges with the reservation.

Nosinan ishpimi eaivn, tvkkijiinenjigade iu kidishinikazouin. Kitogimauiuin tvpitvguishinomvgvt. Enendvmvn tvizhijigem oma aki, tibishko iuidi ishpimi. Mizhishinam sv nongum gizhigvk iu gemijiia. Gaie uebinamauishinam iniu nimbataizhiuebiziuininanin, ezhiuebinamauvidua igiu mejitotauividjig. Kego gvguedibenimishikaen ninguji jishobiziia, gaie mitaguenimauishinam mvjiaiiuishvn. Kin sv kitibendam iu ogimauiuin, gaie iu gvshkieuiziuin,gaie bishigendaguziuin, kakinik apine go kakinik. Amen.