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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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