December 2010: Navajo Lutheran Mission Advent Greetings

December 2010 Welcome to the 7th issue of The Navajo Way, the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission's electronic newsletter! Friends: December 6, 2010 We want you to join us as we walk together into God's future! This letter is an Advent greeting to all the many generous people and organizations who have made generous contributions to the ministry of the Navajo Lutheran Mission in the past year. We thank you for your kindness and generosity and we encourage you to partner us in the upcoming year. Many churches and individuals take trips to overseas countries to learn about different cultures, and provide short term assistance. We are interested in taking mission to the next level of commitment and relationship. We seek a life of common prayer, mutual visits, shared work in mission, and the financial and spiritual gifts that come from long-term relationships. In the New Year we will be sending you a brochure listing the many ways in which our partnership can take concrete shape, and we ask you for your help in imagining how our relationship can grow into the future, to our mutual benefit. So, during this season, when so many of us are determining our budgets for the coming year, we ask that you remember the Navajo Lutheran Mission and become a partner in mission with us. The Upcoming Year Our Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission is in an exciting and challenging process of developing a charter contract with the State of Arizona. The development of a charter school will provide the mission with substantially more financial resources once we are licensed. Obtaining charter school status will also result in a better funded and more family oriented religious education program. If your contribution can only be prayer this year, please pray for us as we implement our new vision here at Rock Point. Certainly though, you can enliven your prayers by contributing financially to the future of our mutual Mission. You can be part of a bridge to the future by making a financial commitment in your budget for next year and with gifts now. What do you think? Will you renew your commitment to our partnership? We pray that you will. To our friends and family of supporters, to all those who wish us well, who pray for us, to those who give so generously of their time and talent. On behalf of the staff, the Board of Directors, and the members of the House of Prayer, we wish you a very blessed and Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Peace filled New Year. Lynn & Deborah Hubbard Navajo Lutheran Mission Advent 2010   Please consider partnering with us in the coming year to become "A Mission With a Mission," and impact the lives of the Navajo children and families of Rock Point, AZ. NELM on facebook NELM on wordpress blog NELM on Blogger NELM on Zimbio NELM on myspace NELM on bliptv NELM on youtube NELM on photobucket NELM on Twitter www.NELM.org © 2010 NELM | All Rights Reserved | Your Privacy is Protected | Email marketing by Marquita McKnight of Impruvit Consulting. Follow the Navajo Lutheran Mission on these websites:

Navajo Lutheran Mission Board President Ron Augustson: Your help is needed to improve education standards for Navajo children and bring buildings up to code

NELM Needs Your Help! Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, AZ needs your help to bring its buildings up to state standards, purchase computers, improve education for Navajo youth and to possibly partner with Arizona Charter Schools NELM Board President  Ron Augustson An important message from Navajo Lutheran Misson Board President Ron Augustson: Dear Friends The Navajo Mission is alive and well, and through God's good graces, we continue to implement the goals of our mission statement: Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission House of  Prayer NELM, rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and in partnership with the Navajo, is a community seeking to recognize and help meet the educational, health, social, and spiritual needs of the Navajo People  You will be pleased to know that we began living into this vision through the re-birth of the health clinic, and the calling of an ordained pastor for the House of Prayer. Since the early spring, our energy and resources have been directed to re-vitalizing our school to better meet the educational needs of the Navajo children here at Rock Point.  Students enjoy attending NELM The NELM is implementing major improvements in the quality of the education we will be offering our students, starting this Fall semester (August, 2010). These improvements have evolved from recommendations from the educational advisory committee formed by Executive Director Lynn Hubbard, and by partnering with the local Navajo Community.  To accomplish these goals, we've hired a new principal, a part-time education coordinator, and committed the school to the Core Knowledge curriculum. We have also implemented a program for teacher certification, and discussed partnering with other Charter Schools in Arizona, with the goal of becoming our own Charter School in the near future. NELM must purchase new buses As you can imagine, the principal and teachers are currently working hard to give the school a new look by the first day of school in August. However, WE MUST MEET STATE INSPECTION STANDARDS in order to continue to provide a safe environment in which to educate our children! We MUST buy newer buses ($150,000) we have no choice.  This past winter, we had at least five “mud days”, due to the inability of our buses to transport our children. We also MUST bring our buildings up to code with proper fire alarms, asbestos inspections and other safety concerns. Finally, teacher training for certification and adding computer lines to all classrooms for effective on-line access to educational resources are imperative ($100,000).  Your participation is absolutely necessary to make these improvements happen. Many of you are already full partners and participants in the NELM by virtue of your generous donations of time, money, and prayers, and for that we are truly grateful.  This year, however, we have a special challenge. We are working to raise an additional $250,000 by the end of the year. This money will be used to buy new buses and underwrite much needed improvements to our school. Whether by individual donations, through congregational giving, or signing up for the AZ tax credit program, I encourage you to consider a generous contribution to the ministry of our Mission. We believe that the improvements needed at our school are long overdue! The Navajo children here in Rock Point deserve quality education that prepares them for a bright future—this means bringing our building up to code, getting certified teachers and buses that don't break down. Without your support, and the support of like minded churches and organizations throughout the ELCA, our ministry here would simply not be possible. So, on behalf of the Mission, and the children of Rock Point, let me express our sincere and warmest thanks. May God Bless, Ron Augustson The Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, AZ is a busy place Rev Dr. Lynn Hubbard and Rev. Deborah-Haffner Hubbard NELM Executive Director          House of Prayer Pastor

Navajo Lutheran Mission June 2010 Newsletter

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Lutheran Men in Mission winter 2010 newsletter features the men from the La Casa de Christo Lutheran Church in Scottsdale, AZ at the Navajo Lutheran Mission; La Casa de Christo volunteers return to NELM in July 2010

The Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission thanks the Lutheran Men in Mission and its Winter 2010 newsletter for featuring the men at the La Casa de Christo Lutheran Church in Scottsdale, AZ while they volunteered at the Navajo Lutheran Mission



The Lutheran Men in Mission Winter 2010 Master Builders Foundations newsletter

The newsletter includes several photos at the Navajo Lutheran Mission involving the men at the La Casa de Christo Lutheran Church in Scottsdale, AZ.




In fact, the La Casa de Christo Lutheran Church in Scottsdale, AZ is holding a March 21st dinner (5:30 p.m.) to tell people about their "next exciting mission trip to Rock Point, AZ set for July 2010."

The La Casa de Cristo website states:

"Come have dinner on Sunday, March 21 at 5:30pm in the Fellowship Hall and hear more about La Casa de Cristo's next exciting mission trip to Rock Point, AZ set for July 2010.
This is a family mission trip event and families with children are welcome.
Dinner and program hosted by Pastor Lynn Hubbard, Navajo Lutheran Mission Director.
A free will offering will be received.
Sign up at the Men's table in the courtyard on Sunday morning or click here.
The Navajo Lutheran Mission, in partnership with the Navajo People and rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is a community seeking to meet the educational, health, social and spiritual needs of the Navajo People."

The Lutheran Men in Mission newsletter features several photos (above) at the Navajo Lutheran Mission.

The caption reads:

Left photo: David Ulibarri and Terry McEvoy, members of La Casa’s men’s ministry, talking to Dale Barr, board member, House of Prayer Navajo Lutheran church in Rock Point, Ariz.

Middle photo: David Ulibarri of La Casa speaking to Navajo leader

Right photo: David Ulibarri, Terry MacEvoy, who are helping cook a luncheon at the Navajo Lutheran Church in Rock Point, Ariz.
One of the many mission projects the men have done.



Lutheran Men in Mission

8765 West Higgins Road

Chicago, IL

60631-4101

email the Lutheran Men in Mission



email Doug Haugen
Executive Director
800-638-3522 ext. 2566

email Kimberley Moseley
Administrative Assistant
800-638-3522 ext. 2595

email Kyle Pedersen
Young Men’s Ministry Specialist

Mark Brewer
foundations writer







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Augsburg Fortress Vacation Bible School Navajo Mission School Project



Augsburg Fortress One Mission Blog about NELM Navajo Mission School Project

Vacation Bible School Mission Project Offering

P.O. Box 71764

Chicago, IL

60694-1764

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Navajo Lutheran Mission named Johnson & Johnson 2008 Community HealthCare Program Awardee sponsored by the Johnson & Johnson family and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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The Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission thanks Lisa and Robert Gehl of Plainfield, IL, the owners of the website GiftCrazy.net because the company in Plainfield, IL donates 10% of all sales to the mission.
And they promote that fact heavily on their website


GiftCrazy.net is owned by Lisa and Robert Gehl – who live in Plainfield, IL - “with their hyper dog and lethargic cat (doing their part to promote a cosmic balance).”
Their company, Gehl Force, Ltd., specializes in finding unique gifts and seasonal items for home and office.
1-800-917-4345
1-815-577-2219

email Gift Crazy

email Lisa Gehl

email Robert Gehl

On the GiftCrazy.net website it states:

Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission:

GiftCrazy donates 10% of all sales (or commissions, whichever is appropriate) to the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission.
The Mission is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that provides much-needed services to people who live on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Services include education, medical services, school-aged nursing, food, clothing and spiritual counseling.

For more information on the mission and the valuable services they provide, contact the Navajo Lutheran Mission directly at 928-659-4202

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NELM News Stories:

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The Lutheran Magazine November 2009 issue feature story about the Navajo Lutheran Mission

The Lutheran magazine (March 1998 issue) story about NELM and volunteers from Love of Christ Lutheran Church in Mesa, AZ

For 11 years, Love of Christ Lutheran Church in Mesa, AZ has sent a team including youth to the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Rock Point, Ariz.

The Lutheran magazine

5th Floor (ELCA-LU)

8765 W. Higgins Rd.

Chicago, IL

60631-4183

1-800-638-3522 Ext. 2540 (editorial)

1-773-380-2409 (fax)

Subscriptions

1-800-328-4648 Choose "1" for magazines

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Green Valley News & Sun story on the NELM visit by the 2009 team from Desert Hills Lutheran Church in Green Valley, AZ

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review preview story on April 9, 2009 on upcoming NELM visit by 2009 team from the Hope Lutheran Church of Forest Hills in Pittsburgh, PA



Pastor Susan Schwartz & team at NELM in July 2009

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AZCentral preview story on NELM visit by a 2009 team from the Mountain View Lutheran Church in Ahwatukee, AZ
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