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Eyes Opened to AZ

Within the past year, I've had two opportunities to visit and minister to natives through partnership with Live Love Ministries. The unique group of people that serve on Live Love's team are patiently building relationships with native communities in the Tohono O'Odham Nation (T.O.) in Southern Arizona. In November of 2022, I helped a team of men with a building project at the Live Love ministries church near Casa Grande, AZ. We also had the opportunity to minister to two different communities in the T. O. nation during that Fall trip. Recently, in July of 2023, we took a group of high school teens back to minister to 4th-6th grades students at the church there in Casa Grande area. 

Our goal on this recent trip was to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with these students and teach them about the character and nature of God Almighty. People will sometimes ask, "Why would you go to Arizona to tell Native Americans about Jesus Christ? Don't they have their own form of spiritual worship and culture?" The answer is yes, they have an oral tradition that's been passed down from generation to generation. 


But if you discovered the reality of an amazing person who loved people unconditionally -- healed sickness, gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf, opened the mouths of the mute, exorcised demons, raised the dead to life, and claimed to be God -- who said He is the way, the Truth, the resurrection and the Life; and then rose from the grave three days after the religious leaders of His time tried to have killed and buried, I mean, wouldn't you want to share that with others? Especially, if you had personally experienced His life-changing love, grace, and truth (like me)! A Person who not only claimed to be God in human flesh, but proved it over and over by His life and ministry. This Person, Jesus Christ, promises forgiveness, abundant life, and rightness with God to all who trust in Him! We share this Good News with others so they too can have the opportunity to know and enjoy a right relationship with God through Jesus Christ!

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