Native American New Life Ministries

In order to meet the felt needs of the community in accordance with our mission statement, we have developed different culturally appropriate programs. Since these programs cannot function in isolation, we have established close collaboration with various agencies/foundations whom we have similar goals and interests.

Youth Leadership Development

This is a program designed to help young people to be effective leaders not only in their communities but also to the adult world.  The activities involved in this program includes but not limited to group activities, indoor and outdoor games, participatory leadership lessons, community service projects, field trips to different cultures. 
 
BNSF foundation has been financially supportive in this program.

It also offers opportunities for the trained youth to use their leadership skills practically on our weekly meetings with younger kids. We give them different tasks to lead smaller groups of younger kids during after schools programs.

Spiritual Development

Even though this is not a religious organization, it was founded on Christian principles and we believe that “once human being is nourished spiritually, they will develop in other areas of life”. We have programs where we teach them how to make right choices in life. This includes Sunday youth worship service, weekly bible studies, and weekly kids bible school where we get all younger kids and then give the older teens some leadership responsibilities.

School dropout prevention

The school dropout rate on this community has become like an epidemic. The statistics show that over 55% dropouts from high school in these communities we serve. This dropout has regenerated into other social issues which includes but not limited to teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, juvenile delinquency, vandalism, youth crimes thus resulting into family dysfunction which is tearing the social fabric of these communities.

We offer tutoring and mentoring services to needy students as well as those who have the potential of dropping out of school. Also there are recreational activities where these students interact with each other thus helping them to build their self esteem.





Literacy

This is a program designed to meet literacy needs for both parents and their children.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation has been supportive in our efforts to accomplish this goal.

Illiteracy level in this community stands at 45% and this has contributed to unemployment, high rates school dropout, child obesity among other problems.

We offer culturally appropriate literacy activities to the needy adults and youth too. These include family literacy nights, parenting, financial literacy and GED preparation.

NEW HOUSING PROJECT

The housing needs for the rural population is very high. We have case where more than 7 family members live in one room and in most cases with no running water. Also most of the houses are in very poor conditions and need major repairs.  We have partnered with   various entities to help alleviate the housing problems in this community. The major partners in this project include The Home Depot and Yuba –Sutter  mission team, CA.

Health and Fitness

In our efforts to combat obesity, diabetes, heart disease among the youth we have partnered with various agencies to equip the youth and their parents with necessary skills to stay healthy. Navajo nation special diabetes project has been working with us on regular basis in wellness and health education.

The Navajo Nation local council (chapter house) has been proactive working in collaboration with our organization to meet the needs of the local youth and the larger community. They have allowed us to use their facilities for youth indoor and outdoor recreational activities.

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 Also they have allocated us 10 acres of land to construct multi-purpose youth centre in Navajo NM.

Needs list

·         25 passenger bus – we use this to take our students to and from youth meetings and for field trips.

·         grades. Video projector

·         School supplies for all

Coming soon programs!

Partnership

Navajo Baptist Church, NM

Dollar General Literacy Foundation, TN

http://www.dollargeneral.com/dgliteracy/Pages/landing.aspx

Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Foundation, TX
http://bnsffoundation.org/index.html

Billiards, Gallup NM
http://billards.com

Navajo Special Diabetes Project, AZ
http://nnsdp.org/

Yuba-Sutter Mission Team, CA
http://www.ysmexicomission.com/home.asp

Red  Lake Chapter house, NM
http://redlake18.nndes.org