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FoNAC is a Faith-based, Christ-
centered, National
Native Fellowship.
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FoNAC's Vision is to establish a
Christian Native presence in ministry
to Native Americans and First
Nations People throughout America
and Canada
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FoNAC's Mission is to develop a
supportive Network to aid Indigenous
People in their effort to form strong
healthy Christian Communities.
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Approaches to Native Ministry
2) Equipping versus 1 Time Mission Projects.
3) Telling the Gospel Story Through the Heart Language.
1) Understanding versus Changing
4) Calling Out Versus Sending In..
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The Hughes Scale
High
HighLow
QUAD A
QUAD C QUAD B
QUAD D
CULTURE
CONTENT
Biblically sound,Culturally blinded
The Missional Church
Focus on traditionBiblically illiterate
Culturally relevantAbandoned the faith
BALANCE
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Since the 1700s Native Americans
have struggled with the difference
between how they have been
perceived and who they truly are.
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• When a Native American
decides to join the Christian faith,
they are confronted with the
“opposite problem”.
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• Native Americans struggle
with the difference between how
the church is perceived in their
tribal community and what it
truly means to be a Christian.
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• For generations Native peoples
have endured the dominant culture's
“perception” of the inferiority of their
>>Lifeways, >>Traditions, >>Language, >>Cultural and Spiritual Values.
•When a people group must
“abandon its own culture”
and embrace a foreign culture
to come to Christ
--- a major obstacle exists!
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“I have become all things to
all men so that by all possible
means I might save some. I do
all this for the sake of the
gospel, that I may share in its
blessings” (1 Cor. 9:20-23,
NIV).
“I have become all things to
all men so that by all possible
means I might save some. I do
all this for the sake of the
gospel, that I may share in its
blessings” (1 Cor. 9:20-23,
NIV).
The Great Apostle Paul stated:
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FELLOWSHIP of
NATIVE AMERICAN
CHRISTIANS
“Native People Reaching Native People for JESUS” 13
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FELLOWSHIP of
NATIVE AMERICAN
CHRISTIANS
“Natives to the Nations” 14
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EmbraceThePAST
Act In The
PRESENT
EnvisionThe
FUTURE
, we must embrace the past, act in the present, and envision the future.
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