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Navajo Lutheran Mission 2009 Installation: Bishop Talmage says humble approach best

Installation of Rev. Dr. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard and Rev. Deborah Haffner Hubbard at Navajo Lutheran Mission
ELCA Grand Canyon Bishop Steve Talmage calls for humble approach in working with tribe

Bishop Talmage acknowledges God was at work with Navajo long before missionaries arrived

(Rock Point, Arizona) – The fourth video on the Installation of Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard and Rev. Deborah Haffner Hubbard at the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission (NELM) in Rock Point, Arizona by Bishop Steve Talmage of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Grand Canyon Synod.

Bishop Talmage installed the Hubbards on Sun., June 7, 2009.

In this video, Bishop Steve Talmage talks Navajo medical milestones like Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, who in 1994 was the first Navajo woman to be board certified in surgery. (See photo collage below)

I believe there is a need to maintain Jesus’s spirit of humility in seeking to discover the bridges that can be made and even crossed between the cultures and histories that exist in this place, Bishop Talmage told those gathered for the Installation Service.

In our less than perfect history of over 50 years of ministry at Rock Point, those who have come from the outside have struggled to be humble, patient and willing to recognize the need to discover how God has already been at work among the people here, Bishop Talmage said.

Love the stranger, love the neighbor and a friend with an open heart – with the open heart that Jesus has for all of God’s children,” said Bishop Talmage of the effect of the mission and school on those who do not know Jesus.

Bishop Talmage’s message of humility and realization that God has long been a part of the Navajo culture even before missionaries resonates with Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, who became executive director of the Navajo Lutheran Mission in the spring of 2009 and has a been an outspoken advocate for Christian respect for the American Indian culture and traditions.

While still following the original goals of the mission, Rev. Hubbard is taking a respectful and humble approach to the mission’s work in the Navajo community.

He believes the purpose of the mission is to minister with the Navajo not for the Navajo.

With the century-long horrors of the Christian boarding lasting to mid 1900s still fresh in elders’ minds, Hubbard believes we need to practice healing and reconciliation, not judge people whose path to the divine life might be different than ours.

Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, who sings and plays guitar, is planning a series of concerts starting in the fall of 2009 at churches and other venues in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, California.

The free fundraising concerts are to raise awareness about mission projects and the new Mission in Reverse model that the mission is operating under since he arrived in the Spring of 2009.

Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission
House of Prayer Lutheran Church
Rock Point, Arizona

1-928-659-4201 (Office)
1-928-659-4202 (School)

2009 Board of Directors

Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission

Ron Augustson, Chair

Janice Lee Jim

Roger Johnsen

Jerry Thomas

Bill Heincke

Richard Wixom

David Ulibarri

Jeannie M. Harvey

Christel Badey

Clarence Begay

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Navajo & Medical Milestone: Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord:

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National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health: Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord – Changing the faces of Medicine

Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord: Changing the Faces of Medicine traveling exhibition

Photo Gallery of Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord

Captions to the photos of Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord and her family that are used in video and in above collage:

Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, the first Navajo woman physician to be board-certified in surgery. courtesy: Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D.
Lori Arviso Alvord in High School in 1975
Lori Arviso Alvord’s father and paternal grandmother at her graduation from Stanford Medical School, 1985
Lori Arviso Alvord at age 1 with her father, Robert Cupp in 1959
Lori Arviso Alvord (rear, center) with five generations of her family
Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord performing surgery

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear (Widener Universigty): A Navajo Woman’s Surgeon’s Story

Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord: She Shines – YMCA of Rhode Island:

University of Nebraska Medical Center: Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord

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Navajo Lutheran Mission: 2009 livestock vaccinations by Church of the Cross in Sacramento, CA

Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, AZ: 2009 livestock vaccinations at the Navajo Nation reservation by missionaries from the Lutheran Church of the Cross in Sacramento, CA
Church of the Cross Sacramento, CA did livestock vaccinations for Navajo residents around Navajo Lutheran Mission

During July 2009, volunteers from the Lutheran Church of the Cross in Sacramento, CA visited the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, AZ to assist the Navajo people with the health of their livestock.

Despite the extreme summer heat and the remote Navajo homes, church members helped deworm and vaccinate 500 sheep and goats plus 200 horses.

The volunteers from the Lutheran Church of the Cross paid for the expense of vaccinating over 700 livestock.

The vaccination program badly needs funding and anyone wish to help should contact the Navajo Lutheran Mission (see contact info below).

The group also did building repairs and rehab around the mission. On their off time, the group ventured to some of the area’s most beautiful rock formations and sites. (See photo collages at end of this post).

The Navajo Lutheran Mission extends special thanks to Arizona Navajo musician Anthony Maloney, who music is featured in this video and will be used in upcoming videos (scroll down for more info and links about Anthony Maloney).

Songs by Maloney included in this video are “Our Warriors” and “A Better Life.”

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Info about the Church of the Cross in Sacramento, California (ELCA:

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4465 H Street

Sacramento, CA

95819

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Pastor Michael Walton serves as a Chaplain at California State University Sacramento
Church is on the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Area Campus Ministry.
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email Rev. Michael Walton
(916) 548-4624

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The Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah in the Navajo language) is a semi-autonomous Native American homeland covering about 26,000 square miles (67,339 square kilometres, 17 million acres), occupying all of northeastern Arizona, the southeastern portion of Utah, and northwestern New Mexico. It is the largest land area assigned primarily to a Native American jurisdiction within the United States.

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The Navajo Lutheran Mission extends special thanks to Arizona Navajo Musician Anthony Maloney.

Maloney’s music is featured in this video and will be used in upcoming videos

Songs by Maloney included in this video are “Our Warriors” and “A Better Life.”

Navajo (Diné) singer, songwriter and poet Anthony K. Maloney, a member of the Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah) from Yuba City, AZ “Music City”

Anthony Maloney official website includes background & profile:

Anthony Maloney music on soundclick:

Click to email musician Anthony Maloney

1-253-661-3652

Links to songs:

Taken Away

We Were

The High Life

Our Warriors

A Better Life

4-Directions

What are my Chances

Walk Away

Smokey Eyez

Only Prayers and Time Will Tell

The Rain Never Seems To Stop

When

Song details:

“Taken Away”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=1059384

Native American AlterCountry
The beauty of a woman you love can make you drift off into another world…Love…Nirvana.

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records

“We Were”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=1107571

About a lost love whom i admire, but don’t wanna see face to face, only from a distance.
Just old thoughts of a past love…old flame..hehe

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records

“The High Life”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=1580501

just playing around and jammin’ with my nephew Leland, great musician.
Just felt the blues and went with the flow.
Sorry no vocals, it’s all instrumental.

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records
By Anthony Maloney and Leland Howard

“Our Warriors”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=1692003

Song about the reality of being plagued by Alcoholism on the Rez.

It is happening, not just on our reservations, but with in our community. There is really nothing to do, but let the abuser realize the facts of their addiction and its consequences.

No lyrics on this one.
I shouldn’t have wrote this song in the first place, though it takes the anger out of me, because it was a path that I was on.

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records

“A Better Life”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=1737075

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records

“4-Directions”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=1755167

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records

“What are my Chances”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=2281129

Relationship about to crash, but what are my chances, if…

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
AKM Records

“Walk Away”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=3379744

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records

“Smokey Eyez”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7287628

Lost in a No Tell Motel, thinking of life in perspective, with our a care in this world.

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records

“When”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=1789167

About a friends drama and his feelings transferred into a song…
A day of beer drinking and singing. The first cut was terrible and then i just worked at re-writing the whole song, then it all came together. I like it and I hope you do to.

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records

“The Rain Never Seems To Stop”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=1692011

Just wrote what i felt, not thinking about what I was really thinking, just a role in every day relationship functions and disfunctions.
It is more about tears and brokenness, to love…

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Records

No lyrics to this song. Free flow.

“Only Prayers and Time Will Tell”
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=1586015

Song started with simple chords and gradually crawled into a nice Native Contemporary song.

Album:
Anthony Maloney Unplugged
ShadowFace Record

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