
Indigenous Faith
Helping Indigenous followers of Jesus Christ live biblically healthy lives in the context of their cultures and communities.
Episodes
228 episodes
25.37 A Remarkable VIP Interview with T.J. Valtierra (Part 2)
As the Smiths continue their fascinating interview with T.J. Valtierra, T.J. shares how even with such a tough upbringing for all his siblings, including crime, drugs, abuses, gangs, prison, shootings, stabbings, etc., all his siblings now shar...
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25.36 A Remarkable VIP Visit with T.J. Valtierra (Part 1)
The Navajo have a very expressive term for the English expression, "Oh my goodness!" It's Yah-di-lah! All LaDonna and Craig Smith can say regarding the life story of this truly Victorious Indigenous Person, T.J. Valtierra is, ...
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25.35 A VIP Visit with Colleen Estes and Mario Keeper (Part 3)
In this third and final episode in this VIP series with Colleen Estes and Mario Keeper from the remote First Nations community of Pikangikum, Ontario, Canada, these two warriors for Christ continue to share about the new work of God in their li...
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25.34 A VIP Visit with Colleen Estes and Mario Keeper (Part 2)
In today's episode, Mario Keeper tells of the healing power of Christ in his life in dealing with the loss over the years of three siblings to suicide, and how he now has not only a renewed passion for Christ, but for his community as well.&nbs...
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25.33 A VIP Visit with Colleen Estes and Mario Keeper (Part 1)
Today the Smiths begin a new VIP interview series with Colleen Estes and Mario Keeper. Two people who's backgrounds are so diverse and different, only the Divine leading of the Spirit of God could ever bring these two stories together, me...
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25.33 A VIP Visit with Adrian Staples and Miles Davenport (Part 3)
Craig and LaDonna wrap up their three part visit with On Eagle's Wings team members, Adrian Staples and Miles Davenport. These two young warriors for Christ continue sharing how God has been working in their lives through their involvemen...
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25.31 A VIP visit with Adrian Staples and Miles Davenport (Part 2)
Craig and LaDonna continue their VIP visit with On Eagle's Wings team members Adrian Staples (Ojibwe) and Miles Davenport (Meskwaki). These young warriors for Christ share about their early days of being discipled and how they got introdu...
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25.30 A VIP Visit with Adrian Staples and Miles Davenport (Part 1)
Today, the Smiths launch a VIP visit with two young, next generational Native leaders serving with the On Eagle's Wings team. Adrian Staples is a home boy from Cass Lake, MN and actually a relative of Craig's. Craig's grandmother wa...
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25.29 Saving Evangelicals, a Fascinating Visit with Joel Van Hoogen (Part 4)
In today's final episode with our wonderful guest, Pastor Joel Van Hoogen, the Smiths draw out of brother Joel as much information as they could because of the importance of the message he brings. Saving Evangelicals is not ...
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25.28 Saving Evangelicals, a Fascinating Visit with Joel Van Hoogen (Part 3)
If you've been encouraged and challenged by the past two episodes the Smiths have had with Joel Van Hoogen as he unpackages his book, Saving Evangelicals, then you're in for a real treat today! Joel continues to speak about the s...
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25.27 Saving Evangelicals, a Fascinating Visit with Joel Van Hoogen (Part 2)
In this second episode on Saving Evangelicals, Craig and LaDonna Smith and Joel Van Hoogen continue to discuss the fascinating book Joel wrote that helps anybody who is questioning the reality of their faith in Christ do a self-examina...
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25.26 Saving Evangelicals, a Fascinating Visit with Joel Van Hoogen (Part 1)
Today, Craig and LaDonna Smith start a new and fascinating series with Pastor Joel Van Hoogen of Boise, ID. Joel also leads and international equipping ministry called Church Partnership Evangelism, Inc. He is author of a book title...
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25.25 It's a Beautiful Thing - The Power of Spirit-Filled, Family Based Ministry with Ken and Becky Berge (Part 5)
In this, the final episode of our series with Ken and Becky Berge, their family opens the program by sharing the title song of one of their CD's called Trusting You. It so beautifully sets the stage as the theme of this whole ser...
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25.24 It's a Beautiful Thing - The Power of Spirit-Filled, Family Based Ministry with Ken and Becky Berge (Part 4)
After another foot-tapping bluegrass song from The Berge Family, Ken and Becky continue to unpackage the wonderful journey the Lord took them through in their family's popular bluegrass music ministry. But the list gets serious fast as Cr...
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25.23 It's a Beautiful Thing - The Power of Spirit-Filled Family Based Ministry with Ken and Becky Berge (Part 3)
After a foot-tapping bluegrass song by The Berge Family, the Smiths and Berges continue to share about the early development of their family's music ministries, and how those ministries became a very important part of what they did for the Lord...
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25.22 It's a Beautiful Thing - The Power of Spirit-Filled Family Based Ministry with Ken and Becky Berge (Part 2)
Today the Smiths continue their interview with Ken and Becky Berge on the topic of family based ministry. For the Smiths and Berges, it's all about music. The episode begins with a song Craig and LaDonna recorded in both English and...
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25.21 It's a Beautiful Thing - The Power of Spirit-Filled Family Based Ministry with Ken and Becky Berge (Part 1)
Today Craig and LaDonna begin a unique series on the family. Specifically, the power of God as He uses families to serve Him together. And that can be done in many different ways. Craig and LaDonna welcome to the broadcast the...
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25.20 A Beautiful Woman, A Beautiful Land - Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Alfreda Claus
In today's episode, Pastor Craig takes us to Kiowa country in western Oklahoma where he preached a funeral message for someone he affectionately referred to as his second mother. Alfreda Claus was the matriarch of the well known ...
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25.19 Biblical Worship 101 with Jason French (Part 6)
In today's final episode in our series with Pastor Jason French, Craig, LaDonna, and Jason lay out what biblical worship must look like in the context of our Indigenous cultures. God only accepts worship based on His truths, and not the i...
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25.18 Biblical Worship 101 with Jason French (Part 5)
In this powerful series on biblical worship, Pastor Jason French continues to give his perspective and convictions on how to process any human culture and its influence on worship in the Evangelical Christian church today. Of particular i...
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25.17 Biblical Worship 101 with Jason French (Part 4)
Craig and LaDonna Smith continue their fascinating visit with Cherokee Worship Pastor, Jason French, as they continue to dig deep into God's Universal Call to Worship in Psalms 148. Today, the focus is on culture and its effects on worshi...
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25.16 Biblical Worship 101 with Jason French (Part 3)
Today, Worship Pastor Jason French (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) and the Smiths unpackage the truths found in Psalms 148, which is God's Universal Call to Worship for all of creation. How do inanimate objects worship God is one o...
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25.15 Biblical Worship 101 with Jason French (Part 2)
In today's episode, Cherokee pastor Jason French continues to share his backstory which contributes so much to his becoming established as one of Native North America's leading worship pastors in both Native and modern America settings. H...
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