We often get inquiries about work with Native Americans. On this page
we have listed an assortment of organizations that have various kinds of
ministry with this people group. We suggest, however, that you first
contact your own church leadership or denomination and work with any efforts
they may have underway. If you can't find what suits you, then contact
any of the organizations listed here, explaining what you would like to
do. The details for the ministries change from time to time.
Opportunities with Native American Mission Agencies
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Missions Alive! Join us to the ends of the world. Opportunities to serve in Crow Indian Reservation /
Montana. Our teams participate in construction, Crow Fair Pow Wow, friendship evangelism,
Vacation Bible school, Drama and Music Ministry. All you need is a A servants heart, flexibility,
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Minister To The
Tarahumara Indians
Through
Kingdom Flight
Missions to
Juarez & Copper Canyon, Mexico
Low cost short and long term trips to Mexico for youth and adult groups.
Children's ministries, VBS, evangelism outreaches, construction projects.
Beautiful ministry center with clean facilities. Videos Here
Positions for
qualified leadership. Interdenominational.
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1 Way Ministries
1 Way is committed to taking the first steps to reaching the world by ministering to impoverished,
forgotten, and desperate people groups. Week long mission trips year round for Jr. High through
Adults are offered to the Tohono O'Odham Reservation in southern Arizona. Trips cost $325 per person
and include a full week of ministry and mission.
1st Nation Ministries
We focus on equipping Native believers to develop ministries, strengthen leadership and build churches.
We have Bible Conferences and Outreaches, traveling ministries (preaching and music events),
and Christian schools, such as Oasis Christian Center for children and Uintah Basin Bible School for adults.
We also distribute clothing and food, and prepare community meals. Based in Fort Duchesne, Utah.
Adventures in Missions
AIM sometimes conducts ministry trips to a Navajo reservation
in Arizona for Senior High and College age individuals, and to several
other Native American locations (including North Dakota, South Dakota,
Mississippi, Oklahoma, and New Mexico) for Senior High youth groups.
Agape Church
Ministering to the Rosebud Rez. and the Pine Ridge Rez. Our Vision is to show American Indians (1) You
can be an Indian and be a Christian, and (2) that God has a special plan for American Indians.
Details of this vision our in Pastor Mel Bond's book: God's Last Days People.
Agape Lane Ministry
We work with many Native American tribes including the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians, mostly in
Oklahoma. We partner with committed Christians in Native American communities to evangelize, and disciple
the people to a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. We host ministry teams from many
individual churches and organizations. Videos
AIM for Christ, American Indian Missions for Christ
We're dedicated to spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ to American Indian Reservations. Our hope is
to raise up and train disciples to evangelize surrounding reservations. You must have a willing heart to serve,
be born again and lead by the Holy Spirit, and be from Junior Hi to Adult age. Non-denominational.
AKINA Community Church (works best with Internet Explorer)
Opportunities for all to reach the 33,000 Native American in the Twin Cities area (Minneapolis, MN). This is
the highest concentration of Native Americans in an urban setting. Most any skill level would be appreciated.
(Assembly of God affiliation)
American Indian Bible Institute
Good resources for ministry and church planting in American Indian culture. Some material is in Spanish.
American Indian Christian Mission
Located in Show Low, Arizona, AICM manages a boarding school, and is responsible for the
Apache Christian Connection (ACC) on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. Videos
Apache Youth Ministries
Located in Whiteriver Arizona, AYM is a non-denominational youth organization that works with
the youth and communities on the White Mountain Apache reservation.
Arctic Outreach
We place workers in communities in Northwestern Canada and Siberia for evangelism and
Christian-in-Service ministries. We also conduct VBS camps. We need SS and VBS teachers, school teachers,
tutors, mechanics, pilots, and providers of elderly services, who can live in isolation without convieniences.
Broken Walls
A music ministry of worship and reconciliation.
By His Spirit Ministries
Native Americans have a great part to play in this end time move of God. We want to help them achieve
that destiny, and work to bring them the gospel of salvation and to equip
them to live victoriously and successfully with Biblical principles, and to bring the glory of God into the rezs.
Any age welcome.
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Careforce International - First Nations Initiatives
We specialize in sending teams of people to two
communities in Ontario to work with First Nations youth ages 6-12. Help us
conduct the BASE Camp on the Rez program for 1-2 weeks and learn about this
unique host culture of Canada. We also offer many international opportunities to work with children in 4 projects.
Cariboo Presbyterian House Church Mission, Nazko and Area Dakelh Outreach
A House church mission reaching out with the love of Christ to people in rural and remote areas of British Columbia,
Canada. We are currently searching for someone to join our team to
start a healing ministry among the Carrier people on a long term basis. We seek to be culturally affirming in
serving Christ.
Christ for Native Youth
Our goal is to establish relevant dynamic youth ministry through evangelism and discipleship in
indigenous communities in the USA, Mexico, and Canada. We invite volunteers with skills in
English, Spanish, Trans-cultural teaching abilities, and mentoring youth going into missions.
CHIEF Christian Hope Indian Eskimo Fellowship
For 30 years, CHIEF has provided discipleship training, evangelism outreach,
and a practical helps ministry for about 300 tribes in the Americas.
Christian Discipleship Center
A Bible-based residential Christian recovery program for Native men who want to overcome
addictions. Need short and long term volunteers: building and maintenance skills, Bible teacher and/or counselor, office and
computer skills, trade/technical instructor, dorm supervisors, food services. Individuals, families,
retirees and groups welcomed. 10 acre complex in Cortez, Colorado. Limited housing and RV hookups on campus.
Covenant Youth of Alaska
Two-year short term missions in small Native villages in remote areas. We coordinate youth
leaders, churches and volunteers who focus on ministering to students
between the ages of twelve and twenty-five. Our ministry ranges from running youth groups
to equipping students with vocational training and Christian mentoring.
Dave & Ella McMullen "Harvesting Harvesters"
Based in Bisbee, Arizona, this ministry works with individuals and church groups
to conduct effective outreaches toward the many unreached Indian groups
of Mexico. Work in Mexico, or among those people groups living in the United
States. Email david@HisFeet.net
Desert Wind Outreach by Duane Bristow Ministries
Ministry to Native Americans in New Mexico and Arizona, primarily Navajo tribes.
Short term trips for groups and individuals.
Diamond Willow Ministries
A Christ centered relief organization serving the Crow Creek and Lower Brule Sioux Reservations in
South Dakota. We seek to empower and develop healthy Christian youth, families, and leaders
by meeting current spiritual, emotional, and physical needs.
All types of skills needed from construction to just spending time with youth. 18 and up, and families.
Eagle Wings Native American Ministries
We are gatherings of First Nations People, and non-Native friends,
who are finding freedom from addictions, healing from the wounds of past abuse,
and personal fulfillment in life through an experiential, personal, spiritual relationship
with the Creator through the Person of Jesus Christ.
Eagles Wings Ministry
We present the Great Spirit's Son, Jesus Christ and His word, the Bible, to Native Americans in
culturally relevant ways and present a Biblical model of contextual theology to Native Americans.
We seek to reconcile and foster healing among native and non-native peoples. Based in Wilmore, Kentucky.
Experience Mission
Our commitment is to the teams that "go" and to the ongoing work inside our partner communities.
Trips to the Navajo Nation in the USA, and to Jamaica, Ruiz Mexico,
Tecata Mexico. Custom trips available. We provide for you to stay in touch with the meaningful relationships you've
started on your trips.
Firestarters Ministries (Washington State)
A variety of ministry to Native Americans mainly in the Pacific Northwest.
First Nations Ministry
We take food, clothing, Bibles, and the Gospel to Native Americans living on reservations in
western and midwest United States. Interdenominational. Based in Portland, Oregon.
Flagstaff Mission to the Navajos
Short term trips for groups, to reservations in New Mexico.
Flame of Fire Ministries
A non-denominational Navajo ministry on the Navajo Nation, Multicultural-Navajo and English
languages, committed to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Native Americans and the
equipping of the saints for works of service.
Frontier Missions
Pacific Northwest ministry to Native Americans. Email info@frontiermissions.org
or darrellk@frontiermissions.org.
Portland, Oregon, 503-492-0904.
Global Volunteers (not necessarily Christian)
Several opportunities with North American Native Americans.
Grizzly Smith Ministries
Come help us learn and share the ways of nature in the utilization of Alternative
Technology among the Lakotas and other Native American peoples. You will need
a desire to work with and enable the land to produce shelter, food, energy and
transportation. For teens through "ancients".
Harvesting Harvesters
Outreach to the poorest migrant workers - Native Americans along the Mexico / USA
border, into Nogales, Magdalena, Hermosillo, as far as Oaxaca, etc. Based in Bisbee, Arizona.
Indian Elders Food Project (IEFP)
This project's purpose is two-fold; it will provide food for the holidays to Indian Elders in
North Central Oklahoma, and promote a better understanding between the Indian and non-Indian
communities in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
Healing for the Natives Ministries
A unique ministry of spiritual warfare through anointed Native American
cultural expressions of worship: a blending of Native and contemporary Christian
that sets the captives free. We invite musicians (guitar, bass, drums, Indian drum and singers), and
dancers to join us in ministry. Four Square Affiliation
In Motion Ministries
Short term mission adventures for individuals, families and groups;
ranging from one week to three months. Anyone over the age of 14 can apply. Destinations
such as Northern Cheyenne Indian Nation in Montana, China, Viet Nam, Ireland, Costa Rica, Alaska, and more.
InterAct Ministries
We work to plant churches along the North Pacific Crescent. Short term trips: Canada Native Ministry, Alaska Native Ministry, Alaska Bush
Camp Team, East Indian Ministry, Summer In Siberia (SIS). You can help in many ways, from construction
to evangelism to discipleship.
Inuit Ministry International
Kingdom Flight
We work to meet the physical, educational, and spiritual needs of children
in remote areas of Mexico through our ministry centers for abused and neglected
children. We're seeking a bilingual person to oversee our Una Esperanza ministry center
in a Tarahumara Indian community 15 miles south of Juarez, Mexico.
Lakota Journey
We connect church groups with Native pastors and ministry leaders on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge
Reservations in South Dakota. Groups do a variety of ministry-related work while building life-giving
relationships. Check our site about our summer intern program. Non-denominational.
Living Hope Native Ministries
The vision of LHNM is: That in every First Nations context the local church would
reach its full potential worshiping in full devotion, attracting the seekers,
mobilizing believers, restoring families, changing communities, affecting
the world. Short and long term opportunities.
Living Stone Band
Contemporary Native American band based in Minneapolis available to lead worship and perform original music.
Mending Wings Ministries (Yakama Reservation in Washington State)
We're a large, contextualized, Native led organization that works with 6th - college age students and
their families. We firmly believe that we can be who
Creator made us to be as Indian people because He doesn't make junk!
For information on ministry trips on the Yakama Reservation please email Corey Greaves.
Morning Star Ministries
Created to help reach the American Indian with the good news of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, we facilitate mission trips, building projects and any other effort
that will enable us to share God's love and concern for native Americans. Navaho's in Arizona and New
Mexico, Seminole's in Florida, more.
NAMB Native American Ministries
This web site has been designed to serve as a resource to further evangelize Native American and First
Nations ministries throughout North America. Southern Baptist
Native American Ministries
We exist in order to resource the vision of reservation pastors, primarily in the Northern Plains,
primarily with Sioux and Crow people. Short term missions trips for churches, individuals, and families.
You'll need a strong work ethic and a teachable disposition. Assemblies of God
Native American New Life Ministries
We work to meet spiritual, physical, social, educational and economic needs of the native community.
Our focus is youth and their parents to assist them to make right
choices. We need VBS teachers, carpenters, masons, roofers, evangelists, Bible teachers, camp
counselors, youth mentors, etc.
Native American Outreach Ministries (NAOMI)
Home for abused and/or neglected children, in Arizona. Food pantry, clothes closet,
medicine and medical supplies to needy families, counseling and crisis intervention.
Summer internships, church groups for special projects. Interns should be 21 years old.
Native American Youth Ministries
NAYM assists Churches and ministries on reservations in Arizona by equipping the church to be
self-sufficient. Week long mission teams are needed for construction or VBS projects.
Adults, college students, and preteens with parent are welcomed to inquire.
Native Christian Way
Our purpose is multifold, including efforts to introduce and direct our people in the knowledge,
understanding and acceptance of a complete Creator and God. We need workers in many types
of ministry. Based in Albuquerque, NM.
Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
A fellowship of native churches with an indigenous organizational structure, reaching out to the man
reservations and Native American communities throughout Canada.
Native Harvest
"From the Rez to the Rezt of the World". We work in the area of Flagstaff Arizona to establish a dynamic
indigenous church, relevant to the culture, including contemporary themes for Native American youth.
Navajo Ministries
Since 1953, we have helped to meet the physical, emotional, educational and spiritual
needs of families and children, primarily the Navajo, in the Four Corners region of
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado. We have need for short term volunteers at times,
and we conduct a one week Navajoland Tour each fall.
Navajo Work Camp Mission Program
This vital program of fellowship, faith, hope and love through hard work, provides individuals of
the Christian faith and those of the Navajo culture with a shared spiritual experience with God, our
creator. Affiliated with Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
New Gatherings
New Gatherings serves native communities in both reservations and urban settings
through regular gatherings with food, prayer, music, sharing, stories and service to one another and
the community. We hope to birth 1000 new gatherings on reservations, reserves, rancherias, villages,
bands and cities. Multi-denominational.
Next Step Ministries
Life-changing short-term mission trips for students! We take students to Alaska, New Mexico, Mississippi and Bahamas.
Take the NEXT STEP in your faith! For college, youth, and pre-teen.
North America Indian Ministries (NAIM)
Minister to Indian people where they live... along the river beds or railroads... in mountain
crevasse or coastal village... often in more primitive conditions that
you've experienced before (Canada, northern USA states). Many Christian
colleges offer credits for the Summer Ministry Institute program.
Northern Arizona Food Bank (NAFB)
Our mission is to distribute food to thousands of Arizona's most impoverished including the
Navajo and Hopi Reservations. In conjunction with social service agencies, churches, civic and hunger
relief organizations, NAFB is determined to wipe out malnutrition and hunger. We need volunteers to
help us with this task.
Northern Canadian Evangelical Ministry (NCEM)
Large well-established agency has several forms of ministry throughout Canada,
including a 6-week summer program of cross-cultural exposure and ministry
in First Nations communities. Also, career opportunities in media and personal
evangelism.
Northern Connections Fellowship
Sharing stories of faith through cultural expressions. Based in Manitoba, Canada, with ministry
and workshops in many nations. Come help us: English OK, Cree would be wonderful!
Overcomers Ministry
Our mission includes evangelism, Bible and discipleship training, reconciliation and restoration of
Native Peoples of America and Canada. We operate a residence for native Christians who are in recovery
from alcohol abuse and those in the process of stabilizing their lives. Volunteers welcomed to inquire.
Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Oyate Kin Wacekiya Omniciye
Ministry amongst the Lakota in South Dakota.
RAIN Ministries
Northern Arizona ministry (Hopi Indian Reservation)
Regeneration Reservation
Ministries amongst the Apaches on the San Carlos and White Mountain Apache Reservations. We are working
to establish Native leadership for the indigenous church, focused on evangelism and discipleship.
Rehoboth Christian School
Now a K-12 day school, we were founded in 1903 by the Christian Reformed Church as a boarding school for
Native American students and a ministry to the Native American peoples of the Four Corners region.
Volunteers can help with tutoring and food service. We also need maintenance help.
Rez Refuge Ministries
A ministry dedicated to aiding Native Americans on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
We share the gospel of Christ, provide tuition and rehab assistance, and crisis management solutions.
We also provide community service projects. We welcome inquiries from volunteers with a willingness
and ability to help others.
Sacred Hoop Ministries
We're about forgiveness, reconciliation, repentance, and healing with a
vision of Unity in the Body of Christ. We teach how to better witness to
Native Americans by understanding culture, protocol and more, to win their hearts to Jesus.
Spirit filled, mature Christians filled with love and a calling to these
people can help us.
Salem First Nations Gathering (Salem, Oregon)
We gather once a month to worship Creator and his Son the Mighty Warrior Jesus.
We are a non denominational group that sings, drums and dances our prayers to Creator within
our cultural ways. Talking and prayer circles are also conducted.
Soaring Eagles (web site pending)
Contextualized Native American ministry. For more information, contact Paul Jones
602-283-5804 (Phoenix, Arizona). email
Spirit Lake Ministry Center
We provide mission opportunities on the Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota. Volunteers
work closely with the residents of the reservation, performing light construction and Vacation Bible
School for local children. All skill levels and ages are welcomed to inquire. United Methodist affiliation.
St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School
K-12 school in New Mexico for Navajo children welcomes volunteers, especially
teachers. Teachers with a variety of skills, including special ed teachers,
often needed.
Sunchild - O'Chiese Mission (Canada, Alaska, Yukon)
Short term VBS teams. Under Evangelical Bible Mission.
Tacoma First Nations Gathering (Tacoma, Washington)
We're Native and Non-Native people who are committed to walking the Jesus Way. We do not
focus on religion but on relationships. We meet on the first and third Saturday of every month
for fellowship. We invite those who understand the culture and that relationships are the key
to witnessing Christ's Love, and who will help with set up, cooking, tear down, misc. labor.
Two Rivers Native American Training Center
We provide specialized leadership training for Native Americans and others called to serve in
leadership and ministry positions within the Native American community. Our students put into practice
what they learn in the classroom by participating in outreach trips to reservations throughout the
U.S. and Canada.
UIM International
An independent faith mission planting churches in Canada, United States and
Mexico among Native and Hispanic people groups. Short term and career opportunities.
Youth camps.
Warriors for Christ
Discipleship ministry for American Indians / Native Americans providing training and
equipping in Biblical truths so they can reach their nations and tribes for Christ.
Wesleyan Native American Ministries
WNAM aims to be a catalyst that inspires, resources and equips Wesleyan churches and districts
all across North America to develop innovative and compassionate outreaches with Native / First Nations
peoples in their communities.
Western Indian Ministries
A non-denominational, non-charismatic evangelical mission to the Navajo and
Hopi tribes in Arizona and New Mexico through Christian radio stations,
Hilltop Christian School and Preschool, and church development. Short-term
summer trips available.
Whitewater Gospel Mission (Near Gallup, New Mexico)
Conducts short term "In Country - Out of culture"
mission trips throughout the year for groups from Churches and Christian
Schools, for work such as painting, construction, and DVBS.
Wiconi International
Our site exists to serve you by introducing you to a dynamic vision for ministry among First
Nations people. Our dream is to see First Nations believers recognized and embraced as vitally
needed, co-equal servant leaders in the Body of Christ throughout the Americas.
Without Reservation
We desire to see Native North Americans following Jesus Christ Without Reservation.
We produce "The Storyteller" radio program and two websites: www.withoutreservation.com (Reaching the lost), and
www.withoutreservation.org (Equipping the found). We offer resources like free Native testimony
CDs to share Jesus, and teaching materials to encourage those who believe.
World Servants
One week construction trips to the "Navajo Nation" - Arizona, New Mexico, Utah,
for families, and senior high school groups. Also a Crow reservation in
Montana. Time for sightseeing.
YouthWorks!
Inexpensive one week trips to any of several reservations in the USA, for 12 to 19
year olds. Groups of 5 or more. Youth Works Missions.
YWAM - Kamiah Idaho
"...committed to reach, disciple, and equip Native people to know God and to make Him
known. We want to accomplish this by developing relationships with them
and through purposeful, positive programs." Work especially in Nez Perce areas.
Youth With A Mission Victoria B.C., Canada
First Nations work amongst the Salish of Tsartlip reserve on Vancouver Island, for ages 15-30.
These are part of the Saanich Nation which includes the Tsawout and Paquachin communities.
Training, local outreach, sharing, group times, worship, servant ministry, kids clubs,
prayer walks, friendship evangelism and more!
Youth With A Mission Victoria B.C., Canada.
High school, college ages
Mission Adventures 10-day First Nations Outreach. Experience Canada's wild West coast! Join us as
we venture into a culture so different yet so close to home. Listen for God's heart
beat as He rises up a movement amongst the Native people of Canada.
Miscellaneous Contacts
Burnt Swamp Baptist Association
A listing of Native American churches in North Carolina.
Polished Arrow
Lists of Native American ministries, newsletters, gatherings, other resources.
The
First Nations Central Network Site
An updated web site where First Nations issues can be posted and networked
from. Started by Native American believers.
Calvary Chapel, Albuquerque NM has a ministry for Navajos. Phone 1-505-344-0880.
Crow Reservation, Pastor Harold Stone, Rose of Sharon Church, Wyola, MT 1-406-245-5821
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