AI 2016: Potawatomi/Chippewa – Crandon, WI

Prepare your team for a camping adventure with Potawatomi and Chippewa kids. Who said missions can’t be fun? After this trip, your team will have stories to tell for years to come. Ministry: Camp Ministry: You’ll spend four days camping in the Wisconsin forest. Enjoy hot suppers at the camp, friendships built swimming and canoeing in the rivers, hiking and exploring forest trails, and sharing lives around the campfires. You’ll also have three days at the mission base, two of which can include more time with the friends you made while camping. Relational Evangelism:...

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AI 2016: Wind River – Ethete, WY

Create a four-day kids’ Bible camp in the heart of the reservation. Ministry: For the June 6 mission: As many as 40 kids and teens a day will join your team at our partner church for 2-3 hours, Mon-Thu afternoons. This is your chance to provide substantial manpower, a boatload of youthful energy, and a lot of Jesus to a successful Bible camp, right in the center of the reservation. You’ll canvass nearby housing neighborhoods to invite the kids, learn where they live, and meet their parents, brothers, and sisters. A couple of evenings will be dedicated to follow up with...

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AI 2016: Zuni – Dusty Pines Work Camp – Gallup, NM

Dusty Pines Camp, out in the forest between Gallup and the Zuni Nation, provides a safe and loving haven for a group of local, Native youth who have chosen to follow Jesus – in spite of the verbal and sometimes physical persecution they know awaits them from family, former friends, and the community in general. But, with the support of Christian teachers, mentors, and each other, they are able to persevere and grow in their faith. One day, they will be leaders in their community. Ministry: The camp provides a refuge for the hundreds of Native campers who flock here each summer, and it...

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AI- Camp Crossway, OK

We are privileged to assist Camp Crossway, a faith-based summer camp for kids and youth. We will be running a four-day, overnight Bible camp for 30-40 local, Native teens in 7th-12th grades. What an amazing opportunity! The facilities are outstanding: good bunk beds, great food, plenty of showers, and lots of fun things to do and great recreational activities. They even have a zip-line! What a blast! Mission teams often struggle to get next to Native teens on reservation missions. Here, your team will eat, sleep, play, and live with them for four days,...

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Navajo- Canyon Family Church, AZ

  Disciple Navajo Teens in Canyon Country Navajo teens are hurting. Even in a country teeming with activities and tourism, local youth see little reason to believe they can have a good life. Our enemy whispers lies of hopelessness and discouragement into their minds constantly. Is it any surprise that they, and Native kids all over America, commit suicide at 4-10 times the national average? School starts for these youth on July 20. The week before these Navajo teens step back into that world of peer pressure for sex, drugs, and alcohol, your team is going to...

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Navajo BIC – Bloomfield, New Mexico

Assist a Navajo Bible camp that’s bursting at the seams. A few years ago, the Navajo BIC Mission’s summer Bible Camp grew far beyond what the base staff could manage. Its continued existence is a testimony to the grace of God, staff perseverance, and the dedication and hard work of summer mission teams. The bar has been raised the last five summers by Adventures teams who poured their hearts for Jesus into the local adults, teens, and kids. They served five-star lunches and gave of themselves completely to bless and encourage everyone attending the Bible Camp.  The BIC...

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