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American Indians to meet in Oklahoma City
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 01 March 2011, 00:00 IST
Bangalore: American Indian will meet for the gathering in Oklahoma to consider ways to help American Indians connect to the Gospel. Two Southern Baptist leaders said that, historical and cultural barriers often keep American Indians from connecting to the Gospel. So they hope to pinpoint those obstacles and find ways to combat them during The Gathering.
Falls ,the immediate past president of the Baptist general Convention of Oklahoma and senior pastor of Glorieta Baptist Church in Oklahoma, and Lindsey, the church planet strategist with the state convention, said that they expect about 500 American Indian leaders of Southern Baptists churches across the united States and Canada to join in The Gathering.
Falls informed that 90 and 95 percent of American Indians are not Christians, and yet the Christian faith community has been working to connect them to Christ for many years. He added that one of the reasons that more American Indians don't turn to Christianity is the Christian faith community's troubled history with American Indian tribes. He eventually reaffirmed his commitment to Christ, but he can identify with the issues that seem to keep many American Indians from accepting Christianity.
Lindsey, said he has been concerned that Christians have worked with American Indians for so long and the Gospel has not taken root and traveled as it should have among them. As cultural barriers have proved troublesome so leaders have to find a way to evangelize without trying to strip American Indians of many of the things that are part of their cultural identity.
Their goal is just that the Gospel will flow from one Indian to another Indian and that it doesn't stop.
The guest speakers for The Gathering include Jeff iorg,president of Golden gate Seminery inMill Valley claif, Bill Fudge, a former regional leader with the Southern Baptist Conventions International Mission Board.; Alpha Goombi, a Kiowa and Apache Indian who is a Nebraska missionary with the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board; and Jav Jackson,a former New Tribes missionary in the Phillippines,and CEO of Global Empowerment.
Fall hopes that through the gathering and the small group discussion, participants will develop more effective ways to connect American Indians to Christ, no matter where they live, urban areas or on reservations in rural America.