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.
If you still cannot locate a suitable opportunity, click on the "Ask Us" button
and we will see what we can do to help you locate what you are looking
for.
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. Positions available 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.
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.
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.
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.
Ameritribes
Church planting among tribal people in Northern Mexico
and the western USA. Pre-evangelism includes relief and community development projects. We are looking for individuals or
families interested in long-term service. We work with the Shoshone, Navajo, Tarahumara, and
Durango Nahuat (Mexicanero - Aztec group).
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
First Nations Initiatives is "dedicated to Nation Builders". We send summer teams (paid positions
for University/college age students) to Northwestern
Ontario Reserves where we do recreation programs. We are committed to help the First Nations youth in Canada by providing
opportunity for them to excel at life.
Celebrate Recovery Native Ministries
We seek to help a people group in need of recovery from life's hurts. Our Pastor, raised on a
Native reservation, knows first hand the pain from addiction to alcohol and drugs. The only real
help comes from freedom in Christ, the message we bring to all people!
Come help us: you can use almost any skill and experience you have.
Affiliated with Evangelical free Church of Crystal Lake, Illinois.
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.
Dave & Ella McMullen
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 Nest Ministries
Eagle Nest Ministries is an independant, non-denomational Christian outreach located
in Keller, Washington, ministering on the Colville Indian Reservation and the surrounding
areas.
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 committment 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.
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.
Forward Edge International
Evangelism, VBS, and service projects on reservations
in Montana (Crow), and Alaska. Evangelism, service projects. Trip details
here.
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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".
Group Workcamps Foundation
Our work, serving people in need, is ideal for youth groups (ages 12 and up). Since 1977, we've focused on taking care
of the details for you, so you can focus on the spiritual growth that occurs during these
powerful one-week camps. Dozens of locations all over the USA, including some Native American areas.
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.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
Sometimes has summer mission trips to Native American locations for College age.
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 experiences. 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.
Mid American Indian Fellowships
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 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 Christian Way
We are opening a Native American church in Albuquerque, NM, that we believe will be the largest
congregation of Native American believers. We need workers in every type of ministry (children's, youth, men's,
women's, music, worship, ushers/greeters, teachers, etc.). We also need donation of land/bldg.
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.
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!
Northern Youth Programs
Work with Native youth and parents, churches and schools in evangelizing, discipling
and training in communities in northwestern Ontario and Manitoba. A Mennonite
mission.
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.
The Rez Connection
Operates an indoor and outdoor Sunday School program that ministers to hundreds
of Native American children in South Dakota.
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.
Soaring Eagles (web site pending)
Contextualized Native American ministry. For more information, contact Paul Jones
602-283-5804 (Phoenix, Arizona). email
Spirit of the Eagle Ministries
Leading Native Americans to Christ within their own culture. Mission statement
here.
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.
The Ladder Ministries
A non-denominational ministry called to reach college-aged Native Americans.
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 operates the Lakota Christian School in Rapid City, SD., and several churches,
and seeks to partner with others in bringing the healing power of the gospel to Native Americans.
The Vacation With A Purpose program, the Student Sponsorship Program, and prayer and financial support
are ways to help.
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.
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
Native American Resource Network E-mail: ircoal@aol.com
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