An Important New Era in the Education of Navajo Youth
Navajo Nation Education Partnership in Arizona: From Phoenix to Rock Point, Navajo Lutheran Mission and the Concordia Charter School form campus through education partnership
In a mutual announcement, Concordia Charter School Inc. of Mesa, AZ (near Phoenix) forms partnership with Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission (NELM) in Rock Point, AZ.
Read about the partnership by clicking this link
A New Beginning:
Bringing Improved Education to Navajo Youth in Remote Areas of Arizona
NELM is a campus of the Concordia Charter School.
Concordia Charter School Inc. operates on the campuses of the First Evangelical Lutheran – and at the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, AZ (Navajo Nation).
Concordia Charter School Staff
The Concordia Charter School Director is Margaret Roush-Meier, M.Ed.
The Concordia Charter School Board of Directors are: Dale Kvittem-Barr (Chief Administrative Officer), Sue Henderson, Pamela L. Werrell, Donavon Ziegler, Susan Jeffery
The Navajo Lutheran Mission Executive Director is Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard and the pastor of the NELM House of Prayer is Rev. Deborah Haffner Hubbard.
The NELM Board of Directors are: Ron Augustson (President), Christel Badey, Clarence Begay, Kay Fett, Bob Hutson, Janice Lee Jim, Roger Johnsen, Alice Natale, Angela Root, Jerry Thomas, Sue Vogel-Herrera, Richard Wixon, Kathleen Carpenter.
NELM is a mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and belongs to the ELCA Grand Canyon Synod under Bishop Steve Talmage.
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(Fri., Feb. 4, 2011) – “Lightening speed” recovery and a trip to outer space for her husband is set for April 19, 2011
“By all accounts” Arizona U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords is recovering fast – and one doctor called it “lightening speed” at a Texas hospital following the rampage by a gunman nearly a month to the day in Tucson, according to the Arizona Daily Star and the Associated Press.
Astronaut Mark Kelly returns to training on Monday (Feb. 7) to be the commander of the six-man Italian-American flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour set for April 19 – a hard-made stunning decision that has thrilled his NASA colleagues.
Kelly set a Friday afternoon news conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Kelly has been at his wife’s hospital bedside since the Jan. 8 mass shooting.
It will be one of the highest shuttle flights ever and include an “elaborate physics experiment” by a Nobel Prize winner. The final voyage of Endeavour, its the next-to-last flight for the amazing and dramatic 30-year Space Shuttle program.
Kelly’s identical twin brother Scott is the current commander on the International Space Station and will return to Earth in mid-March aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule ending a 5 1/2-month mission and just in time to wish Mark a great flight.
Some Arizonans say prayers, a miracle and great doctors has led to the relatively fast recovery of Congresswoman Giffords who still has a long road ahead.
Millions of prayers, tears and now joy – how much drama can one family stand?
(Fri. Jan. 21, 2011) – Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords arrived at a Houston hospital following an emotional trip by ambulance, helicopter and jet during which throngs of flag-waving and sign-carrying well-wishers lined the streets in her hometown of Tucson for a dramatic send-off as a motorcade of police cars and motorcycles plus sheriff’s deputies escorted her ambulance during the start her journey to Texas.
Gifford will continue her dramatic recovery from a gunshot wound to the head at the Texas Medical Center rehabilitation hospital. Even Capitol Police are among those making sure her stay in Texas is secure.
Gifford began the “next phase of her recover today,” her astronaut husband Mark Kelly tweeted. “Very grateful to the docs and nurses at UMC, Tucson PD, Sheriffs Dept….Back in Tucson ASAP!”
(Mon. Jan. 17, 2011) – Congresswoman Giffords smiled at her husband and gave him a 10 minute neck rub and she underwent successful eye socket surgery, according to ABC News story about Diane Sawyer interview with Rep. Giffords husband.
“But it is so typical of her that no matter how bad the situation might be for her .. she is looking out for other people,” Gifford’s husband astronaut Mark Kelly told ABC’s Diane Sawyer.
(Sun. Jan 16, 2011) – Congresswoman Giffords condition was upgraded from critical to serious – a great sign she is improving.
(Sat., Jan 15, 2011) – Doctors removed Congresswoman Giffords’s breathing tube, replacing it with a tracheotomy tube and freeing her from the ventilator, and could soon know if she can speak, according to the Washington Post.
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December 2010
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Welcome to the 7th issue of The Navajo Way, the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission’s electronic newsletter!
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Friends: December 6, 2010
We want you to join us as we walk together into God’s future!
This letter is an Advent greeting to all the many generous people and organizations who have made generous contributions to the ministry of the Navajo Lutheran Mission in the past year. We thank you for your kindness and generosity and we encourage you to partner us in the upcoming year.
Many churches and individuals take trips to overseas countries to learn about different cultures, and provide short term assistance. We are interested in taking mission to the next level of commitment and relationship. We seek a life of common prayer, mutual visits, shared work in mission, and the financial and spiritual gifts that come from long-term relationships. In the New Year we will be sending you a brochure listing the many ways in which our partnership can take concrete shape, and we ask you for your help in imagining how our relationship can grow into the future, to our mutual benefit. So, during this season, when so many of us are determining our budgets for the coming year, we ask that you remember the Navajo Lutheran Mission and become a partner in mission with us.
The Upcoming Year
Our Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission is in an exciting and challenging process of developing a charter contract with the State of Arizona. The development of a charter school will provide the mission with substantially more financial resources once we are licensed. Obtaining charter school status will also result in a better funded and more family oriented religious education program.
If your contribution can only be prayer this year, please pray for us as we implement our new vision here at Rock Point. Certainly though, you can enliven your prayers by contributing financially to the future of our mutual Mission. You can be part of a bridge to the future by making a financial commitment in your budget for next year and with gifts now. What do you think? Will you renew your commitment to our partnership? We pray that you will.
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To our friends and family of supporters, to all those who wish us well, who pray for us, to those who give so generously of their time and talent. On behalf of the staff, the Board of Directors, and the members of the House of Prayer, we wish you a very blessed and Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Peace filled New Year.
Lynn & Deborah Hubbard
Navajo Lutheran Mission
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Please consider partnering with us in the coming year to become
“A Mission With a Mission,”
and impact the lives of the Navajo children and families of Rock Point, AZ.
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