Missions Launch

I hardly know where to start. We have been here for almost 9 years now. My husband is a full blood Seminole/Creek indian, born traditional and raised to become a medicine man. But was blessed enough to meet the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 19 and it changed his life. We were raised in Christ in OKC at Maranatha Baptist Church of Western Oaks. Later, during a Teen Mission trip my husband took out here…he saw a great need and prayed for God to call one of the teenagers back out here one day. The Lord, of course, told him…”no, its you who will go”  So after Bible college we went on 3 years of deputation and headed to the Mission field.

He has two churches started here. One is in a primitive part of the Reservation (Red Valley, Az) where there are still folks living in hogans and using outhouses ect. The children out there are very neglected (for the most part) and the percentage of sexual abuse is outrageous, mostly due to alcoholism and witchcraft. We also had a church in Beclabito, New Mexico but the land was taken from us and we recently moved the church building (double wide trailer) to Shiprock, New Mexico. Its the largest town on the Navajo Nation with over 10,000 Natives here. 300,000 all together on our reservation, touching 4 states..New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado.  Its the size of West Virginia..its just amazing.

There are so many ministries started here and too much to really talk about in just a note…so I will just touch on a few things. We have 7 kids active in the ministry with us.

We started the adoption process about 2 months ago and were approved to adopt a Navajo child. We are just going through the next phase in the process, and hope to be through all the paperwork and ready by November.

Bobby preaches in the Senior Citizens center once a week, the jail twice a week, preaches in the Red Valley church, and is getting the Shiprock church hooked up on the new land right now. He gets a lot of calls to preach in supporting churches across the country, some colleges ect. Its a very busy life. He also had 1 year of Bible Club in the public school in Red Valley and so many other little things that I can’t keep track. We have to just go one day at a time. We have a couple of men that he is training right now that help him in a lot of these ministries.

If you want to know more, maybe you can ask pointed questions. My life is an open book. Our web pages need updated but they are at http://www.geocities.com/bobbyharjo but our blog, which is updated more frequently is at http://kjvindian.blogspot.com/ there are some pictures and things on there.

I try to make things as public as possible, because we have a lot of summer groups come out. You know, like they do down in Mexico. They like to take Mission trips that seem like a foreign mission field but don’t cost as much as traveling over seas. I didn’t bargain for that part of the ministry…cooking for so many people for a week at a time. But its been quite a blessing and a great tool to help church members fall in love with missions.

Anyway, I have a lot to do. So feel free to write when you are able.

Love in Christ,

Sis Micki Harjo

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Photo by Wolfgang Staudt