A Message from Navajo Lutheran Mission Board President Ron Augustson: Your help needed in shaping future; improved education standards for Navajo youth

NELM Needs Your Help!

The Navajo Way, the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission’s electronic newsletter! July 14, 2010 Dear Friends: The Navajo Mission is alive and well, and through God’s good graces, we continue to implement the goals of our mission statement: NELM, rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and in partnership with the Navajo, is a community seeking to recognize and help meet the educational, health, social, and spiritual needs of the Navajo People. You will be pleased to know that we began living into this vision through the re-birth of the health clinic, and the calling of an ordained pastor for the House of Prayer. Since the early spring, our energy and resources have been directed to re-vitalizing our school to better meet the educational needs of the Navajo children here at Rock Point. The NELM is implementing major improvements in the quality of the education we will be offering our students, starting this Fall semester (August, 2010). These improvements have evolved from recommendations from the educational advisory committee formed by Executive Director Lynn Hubbard, and by partnering with the local Navajo Community. To accomplish these goals, we’ve hired a new principal, a part-time education coordinator, and committed the school to the Core Knowledge curriculum. We have also implemented a program for teacher certification, and discussed partnering with other Charter Schools in Arizona, with the goal of becoming our own Charter School in the near future. As you can imagine, the principal and teachers are currently working hard to give the school a new look by the first day of school in August. However, WE MUST MEET STATE INSPECTION STANDARDS in order to continue to provide a safe environment in which to educate our children! We MUST buy newer buses ($150,000) we have no choice. This past winter, we had at least five “mud days”, due to the inability of our buses to transport our children. We also MUST bring our buildings up to code with proper fire alarms, asbestos inspections and other safety concerns. Finally, teacher training for certification and adding computer lines to all classrooms for effective on-line access to educational resources are imperative ($100,000). Your participation is absolutely necessary to make these improvements happen. Many of you are already full partners and participants in the NELM by virtue of your generous donations of time, money, and prayers, and for that we are truly grateful. This year, however, we have a special challenge: We are working to raise an additional $250,000 by the end of the year. This money will be used to buy new buses and underwrite much needed improvements to our school. Whether by individual donations, through congregational giving, or signing up for the AZ tax credit program, I encourage you to consider a generous contribution to the ministry of our Mission. We believe that the improvements needed at our school are long overdue! The Navajo children here in Rock Point deserve quality education that prepares them for a bright future—this means bringing our building up to code, getting certified teachers and buses that don’t break down. Without your support, and the support of like minded churches and organizations throughout the ELCA, our ministry here would simply not be possible. So, on behalf of the Mission, and the children of Rock Point, let me express our sincere and warmest thanks. May God Bless, Ron Augustson on behalf of the NELM Board of Directors Another way you can help on – Facebook! Kohl’s is celebrating it’s Kohl’s Cares ® 10th anniversary by donating $500,000 to twenty schools EACH for a total of $10 million. They are doing this via a contest on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, or want to open one, go into your account and type in Kohls Cares in via the “Search” bar. Then find your school – Navajo Lutheran Mission. You can vote for the Mission School a total of 5 times on Facebook. (You get 20 votes total but can only vote 5 times for any one school) To vote – you will be asked to “Like” the Kohl’s Facebook page: Vote here: http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/?src=KohlsHomePage&om_rid=NG-D4l&om_mid=_BMQKyJB8OqMvSI& Remember, you have 20 votes to distribute among the schools of your choice and you can vote for each school up to five times. It would be utterly fantastic if the Navajo Lutheran Mission School won one of the $500,000 prizes!!!! MISSION: The mission of The Navajo Lutheran Mission School is to provide each student with a choice for a high quality, college preparatory educational experience in a caring, nurturing environment designed to stimulate the students for lives of leadership and service. The future of tomorrow is being shaped by the teachings of today. NELM on facebook NELM on wordpress blog NELM on Blogger NELM on Zimbio NELM on myspace NELM on bliptv NELM on youtube NELM on photobucket NELM on Twitter Would you like to help? We invite you to become part of “A Mission With a Mission,” and to invest in the lives of the Navajo children and families of Rock Point, AZ. www.NELM.org © 2010 NELM | All Rights Reserved | Your Privacy is Protected | Email marketing by Marquita McKnight of Impruvit Consulting Follow the Navajo Lutheran Mission on these websites:

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