February Update

Psalm 126

I’m not sure we realized how fast February passed and we are into March.  We are officially one year into the pandemic.  We are starting to see numbers on the decline here and are the highest vaccinated region in the entire US (Utah strip of the Navajo Reservation).  However, hardship has not passed by any means.

This month we have provided some education to our supporters to remind them that just prior to the pandemic the Peabody Coal Mine shut down in the months leading to the pandemic.  This left scores of Navajo families without income.  Then we entered COVID-19.  We are still in a safety and recovery mindset here.  We are seeing great strides from individuals within the congregations.  We had a member of a congregation reach out and let us know he and an elder in the church had felt safe having a very small in-home Bible study for teens.  They used all of the previously supplied teen study Bibles provided and were in need of more as well as the next phase of the youth curriculum we published last year.  They are doing some outreach with adults so we have provided a case of Navajo Bibles and another case of English Bibles.  We are currently on the search for new copies of Navajo hymn books.  We continue to partner with the church I updated on last month regarding their upstarting children’s ministry.  We had a small group of donors fund a large amount towards this new ministry and it was just in time.  We hope to provide stories of changed lives soon.  We are excited to sew into the next generation.  We also continue to partner with the Utah Navajo COVID-19 Relief Program.  During February we covered the gap in their food supplies to be distributed weekly by way of their drive through program.  

We know that many of you have endured hardships through the past 12 months and we are grateful that you have continued to stay engaged with our ministry.  Our God is in control (even during the crisis).  We look forward to seeing some of your faces through the upcoming Zoom meetings.