Navajo Nation Education: Navajo Lutheran Mission and Concordia Charter School Create Navajo Education Partnership
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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In Memory: 90-year-old Bernita Severson: Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission cook, education director for 22 years
In Memory:
Served as Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission cook and education director for 22 years
In Memory: Bernita Severson, age 90, formerly of rural Mapleton, died at Peaceful Valley Care Home in Prescott, AZ on April 10, 2009
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