Native Americans volunteer to serve
SILVER SPRING - Michael Virts, a member of the conference Native American Ministries (CONAM) and a Cherokee, recently led a group of volunteers on a mission to Navaho Land in Arizona.
The idea for a mission group to a Native American community came up at one of
At Window Rock, the 11 volunteers repaired a church building inside and out, landscaped the grounds, visited residents in a Navaho nursing home and organized the church's community clothes shop.
The group presented the congregation with a poster from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian that the museum commissioned from the famous Navaho artist Tony Abeyta, called 'Gathering from Four Directions.'
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