On Eagles Wings - Ron Hutchcraft Ministries

Changing the Future

I am just thrilled about what we have experienced already here at Warrior Leadership Summit. Groups came rolling in all day long and it was neat to see these Native youth coming from places hundreds and thousands of miles away to Warrior Leadership Summit. When we had pretty much the bulk of the crowd in, we were still setting up chairs in the back of the auditorium.

There’s always awkwardness on the first day and especially for our Native people. A lot of times we’re shy and a little more reserved. Some of them might not say that about me. We observed some nervousness and shyness falling off the backs of so many of these young people.

No Longer Alone

Update From Ron Hutchcraft

In order to grasp the excitement and historic nature of what’s going on at Warrior Leadership Summit, you have to imagine being a Native American or a First Nations young person with Christ in your heart. If you are, you feel alone, and sometimes totally alone. Your family wishes you didn’t believe what you believe and may have actually persecuted you for your beliefs. You are, perhaps, the only Christian you know in your generation. You live among people who believe that Jesus is the “White Man’s God,” and because of that you’ve lost your culture, your language, and your life. You are alone.

And the Summer of Hope for Native young people launches in just 36 hours!

They’re flying right now from Eskimo villages that are 400 miles from the nearest road...they’re coming from what has been described as “one of the most violent reservations in America”…vans are rolling from First Nations communities across Canada…they’re Sioux from the Dakotas, Senecas from the Northeast,

"My heart was pounding. I knew that the powers of darkness and the powers of righteousness were all there." - Annie (Nez Perce)

Annie was making missions history. She was boldly presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ where it has not been presented for generations - if ever. She was sharing Christ at the On Eagles' Wings outreach on the "Andarka" reservation.

None of us knows a tribe anywhere in North America that is so totally closed to the Gospel. They're surrounded by the Gospel, but most of them have never heard it. That's how they're raised - to avoid Jesus. They hate Christianity for what was done to their people in Christ's name.

No pastor or missionary is allowed to live there and no Christian meeting can be held outside the walls of the tiny churches there. They are the center, the defenders of the centuries-old entrenched religion that permeates the tribes of this region with an unprecedented hostility to Christ. And they will not have the Gospel preached on their land, except in churches where it is only heard by the few elderly Andarkas who already believe.