What will the Lanes actually do...?
This is the strategy that God has given us:
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Partner with committed Christians in Native American communities to evangelize, and disciple the people to a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Be slow to speak and quick to listen. Be good listeners so that we can hear the heartbeat of the people. (Not only is it good Biblical advice, but God has shown us that it is an absolute necessity if we are to follow His will because He speaks it through the people along with His word.)
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In cooperation with those partners seek out teaching, teachers, and training that can be imported or raised up from within (especially that of Native American origin), that can be implemented in the renewing of the minds and hearts of the people. (I.E. That they have true value in the eyes of God. They are precious and indispensable in the body of Christ. They have many God given giftings and talents to offer others in the body of Christ, and a responsibility to share those things. They can make a difference in their own Tribe, their own communities, and the entire world. . They are free to worship God in spirit and in truth, using expressions of their own God given culture should they choose to do so. They do not have to turn their back on their own heritage, and pretend to be someone they're not in order for God to love them. For them to know that God is their creator, He loves them as He created them, and He is not the white man's God only.)
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Develop a network of Christian ministries including Native American and Non-Native, on a local and national level. With the possibility of including those at an international level in the future.
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To assist Christians from each community establish and manage a "Teen Drop In Center" to provide a Christian atmosphere, and safe place for the teens to hang out. It will not only provide opportunity for evangelism, discipleship, and mentoring, it will also promote unity amongst the churches and Christians that are working to make it possible.
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To help the Christian people identify the giftings that God has given them, develop them fully, and put them into productive service in God's Kingdom. This includes identifying leaders; helping to find and retrieve the training and equipping they may need, and supporting them in the ministry God has called them to.
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To identify Christian leaders in the next generation, and partner with those mentioned in #3,4,5 on this page, to facilitate the equipping, training, and encouragement of the teens to take the positions God is calling them to. To see them evangelize their peers, develop their own methods of discipling others, develop children's ministries in their own communities and be positive role models for the next generation.
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To be a bridge connecting Native American and Non-Native Christians and churches so that they can work together as the body of Christ. To share our experience in hosting Non-Native teams with the Native ministries here so that it will be an enjoyable and positive experience for all involved. And we want to share what Native American Christians have taught us, about many things including culture, with Non-Natives. We want to be a conduit through which knowledge, wisdom, and courtesy from both sides can be passed. With a sense of camaraderie among the brethren being the final result.
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Help to develop and implement teaching and training for cross-cultural ministry. To help enlarge the worldview, educate on the apparent calling God has on Native Americans in world evangelism, and finally to prepare people to both go on, and lead an outreach. Then help them organize and go on mission outreaches, or Link them with mission agencies to give them experience in missions among Native American Peoples and others.
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