On Eagles Wings - Ron Hutchcraft Ministries

Under the Banner of Christ

Update from Ron Hutchcraft

It’s so hard to imagine how a Native American young person must feel coming into Warrior Leadership Summit. Let’s try to walk in their shoes just a little bit. If you are a Native American young person who is a Christian, you are a part of an extremely rare and small group of individuals.

There’s hardly any such thing as someone who is young, Native, and follows Christ. Probably the word that would best describe their experience in Christ is “alone.” Suddenly they walk into this room and there are hundreds of Native young people. It is mind blowing. One young man called it culture shock, but he said that it’s great culture shock.

Over and over we are hearing “I’ve never seen anything like this. I’ve never known of so many Natives in one place under the banner of Christ.”

This morning I had the joy of looking over the crowd and seeing the radiance and the passion of Native young people now knowing they are not alone. This is an “us” here and not just a “me,” and that is the power of this gathering. I think that one of the things that is happening, in answer to the prayers from friends like you, is that we really are on a spiritual fast track and already there are spiritual things going on and it’s still very early.