Since July, we have made a continuing commitment to All Tribes Fellowship and Pastor Tim and Elaine Harris in Wagner, SD. For Christmas, that came in the form of collecting and sending 32 Christmas gift shoeboxes for teenagers on the Yankton Sioux Reservation. Today, for the
Christmas celebration, there were about 160 people at All Tribes Fellowship, with shoeboxes and other gifts from Missouri, Wisconsin and our church, New Life! Lutheran. Here is what it looked like in the sanctuary before the service: (Our boxes are in the big pile on the left, which continued around the corner, out of the photo.) It was a wonderfully successful celebration. On behalf of the Harris', All Tribes Fellowship and ourselves, "pidamayaye ye!" (Thank you in Dakota.)
Christmas celebration, there were about 160 people at All Tribes Fellowship, with shoeboxes and other gifts from Missouri, Wisconsin and our church, New Life! Lutheran. Here is what it looked like in the sanctuary before the service: (Our boxes are in the big pile on the left, which continued around the corner, out of the photo.) It was a wonderfully successful celebration. On behalf of the Harris', All Tribes Fellowship and ourselves, "pidamayaye ye!" (Thank you in Dakota.)Just to help you plan ahead, we are looking at going out to the reservation the third week of July with a team that will do helps work on homes and community buildings on the reservation and a smaller team that will do "prayer rides" across the Yankton and Lower Brule reservations. The riders will also take part in the work teams when they are not on the bikes. In addition, we will be collecting and filling as many children's school book backpacks as we can, to be given away at the 3rd Annual "Day in the Park" outreach. Please pray about joining us in whatever way you can. We start preparing for The Journey 2010 on January 4th!
"Pidamayaye ye" and have a Blessed and Merry Christmas!
"Pidamayaye ye" and have a Blessed and Merry Christmas!
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