Natives Follow Jesus

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Today we’re talking about something that touches nearly every part of our lives: the digital world. Phones. Social media. Online conversations.

For many of us, these spaces are where we learn, connect, argue, laugh, and sometimes struggle. But here’s an important question:

What does it mean to follow Jesus in digital spaces?

How do we bring integrity, humility, and wisdom online as Native believers?

Listen to this episode to discover best practices for navigating the digital world.

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3. Send me an email at [email protected] to connect with me or to ask me a question. Thanks.
4. Follow Layla Curtis, Navajo who loves Jesus and plays basketball for the Tuba City Lady Warriors in Tuba City, AZ on Facebook. Check out her Facebook page here. Follow Layla @laylacurtis32 on Instagram.
5. Check out the best practices for using the digital space as evangelism from the Jesus Project here.
6. Peruse also the best practices from Karen Swallow Prior on Research LifeWay who shares "9 Ways to Make Social Media More Christian."
7. Give a review of this podcast on Podchaser.com

Join us for the next episode when you hear how everyday miracles emerge in your life from time to time and how God's presence makes ordinary moments miraculous.

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In this episode discover the gift of community. Learn how to follow Jesus not only as individuals, but as a people--the people of God.

You are not alone.

You can grow in your faith as the people of God gather. Faith often grows in simple places, with simple people, and with simply a meal.

Your faith can grow around tables.

Around fires.

Around shared stories.

🎧 This episode of Natives Follow Jesus explores how storytelling, meals, and fellowship nurture discipleship.

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3. Send me an email at [email protected] to connect with me or to ask me a question. Thanks.
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Join us for the next episode when you can find out how to follow Jesus in the digital age.

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What if your daily responsibilities are holy ground?

Whether you’re working, care-giving, creating, or serving—

God sees it all.

Many of us were taught that worship happens only in church or in a special ceremony or sacred location, but the Bible tells us something different.

This episode reflects on Colossians 3:23 and how your everyday responsibilities--jobs, care-giving, service, and community work--can become acts of worship to the LORD God Almighty.

This episode is for anyone one who feels tired, unseen, or wondering if their work really matters.

Listen now and rediscover purpose in daily responsibilities and work.

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3. Send me an email at [email protected] to connect with me or to ask me a question. Thanks.
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Join us for the next episode when you can discover how meals and stories can help you follow Jesus better.

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Put Off. Put On.

Growth in Jesus isn’t instant — it’s intentional.

In this week’s episode of Natives Follow Jesus, we start a new series--More of Jesus, Less of Me by exploring Ephesians 4:22–29 and how you can lay down old patterns and put on Christ daily with the Put-Off / Put-On Practice.

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Join us for the next episode where you will discover how to use your vocation as an act of worship.

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Not all leaders stand at the microphone. In Native communities, some of the most powerful spiritual leadership flows quietly—through prayerful presence, creative expression, and acts of service. This episode honors Native women who reflect biblical models of active faith, leading not through volume or position, but through obedience, humility, and love for God the Creator-of-All-Things and for their families and their community.

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3. Hear the story of Evangeline and Randy Jackson on Tribal Trails here.
4. Read Rebekah Hillis story on Sounds Academy webpage here.
5. Check out part of Coreen Esplin's journey to Phoenix Seminary from her story here on a Phoenix Seminary reel.
6. Send me an email at [email protected] to connect with me or to ask me a question. Thanks.
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Join us for the next episode as we seek to follow Jesus better everyday.

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Faith in Native communities has often been carried quietly—through stories, prayers, daily example, and resilient love. This episode honors the women who have kept faith alive across generations and invites listeners to reflect on how Native believers in Jesus can intentionally pass faith on to children, youth, and future generations in ways that are relational, culturally rooted, and Christ-centered.

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1. Sign up for monthly newsletter. Click sign up link, scroll down to email form, complete form, respond to email prompt, and get my newsletter.
2. Check out the work of Jessica Crealis who shared her research on Mary Konkapot and Mary Doxtator here. Jessica highlights the story of how these Indigenous women embraced Jesus and lived for Christ as best as they could.
3. Please peruse the added information from a series of articles about Mary Konkapot and what happened to the next generation here. Thanks to the Knox County (OH) online newspaper, Knox Pages, for offering a special series on Mary Konkapot and her family. Michal Sherfy and Jessica Smith co-wrote the articles. Hardship endured. Faith tested. Strong Native Women striving to follow Jesus amid arduous circumstances.
4. Join the movement on Instagram @nativesfollowjesus
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Join us for the next episode when you can hear about the Quiet Prophets who lead through prayer, art, and service.

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This episode of Natives Follow Jesus honors Native women whose lives reflect courage, wisdom, and spiritual strength. Drawing from Proverbs 31:25 and Indigenous experience, we explore how Native and biblical models of womanhood reveal God’s heart for dignity, faith, and hope.

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3. Send me an email at [email protected] to connect with me or to ask me a question. Thanks.
4. Hear Pastor Craig Smith who offers a sermon on the life and spiritual legacy of Alfreda Claus here. I appreciate Craig, Ojibew, and LaDonna, Navajo, who share their walk with Jesus on The Indigenous Faith Podcast.
5. Listen to the testimony of the late Tom Claus, Mohawk, founder of CHIEF, evangelist, and patriarch of the faith here. Thanks to withoutreservation.org for collecting stories of faith from Native American and First Nations followers of Jesus.
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Join us for the next episode to discover the generational faith transmission that mothers, daughters, aunties, and grandmas can have as keepers of the faith in Jesus Christ. Invite a friend to follow, subscribe, and listen.

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For generations, Native communities have been spoken about as “mission fields.” But Scripture tells a deeper story. Jesus never calls His followers a project—He calls them witnesses.

This episode invites Native believers to reclaim their God-given calling as a Spirit-filled people sent to bless the world. Rooted in Acts 1:7–8, we explore how Indigenous followers of Jesus are uniquely equipped to carry the gospel across cultures, nations, and generations.

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Join us for the next episode when you can find out how to balance your faith and your career.

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Hope for Native communities is not found in returning to the past or waiting for dramatic spiritual moments—it is found in walking forward together with Jesus, grounded in faith, hailed in story, mindful of the land, and building relationships with God and with humans.

This episode invites you, listeners to imagine a future shaped by healing, wisdom, and faithful presence, where Native believers move ahead together on the good road as we follow Jesus together as best as we can one day at a time.

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3. Hear more about Billy & Breanna Tallas. They served the LORD in northern Spain at a camp called L'Arcada this past summer. I will post photos on my feed. Read more of their story here. The Tallas family is starting a church in Many Farms, AZ.
4. Jason French, of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee in Oklahoma, served the LORD in Nepal as an adjunct teacher for the Nepal Bible Institute. Read more of his testimony here. Jason is a worship leader and is serving as pastor in a new church starting in Broken Arrow, OK.
5. Send me an email at [email protected] to connect with me or to ask me a question. Thanks.
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Join us for the next episode where you can build a hopeful vision for your walk with Jesus together with other followers of Jesus here at Natives Follow Jesus.

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Division, Misunderstanding, Hurt Feelings have fractured families, churches, and Native communities—often leaving wounds that run deep across generations. This episode invites listeners into a hopeful, biblical vision of reconciliation. Rooted in Indigenous understandings of the circle and Paul’s call to the ministry of reconciliation, we explore how Jesus restores broken relationships and calls us to walk the good road together again.

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3. Hear more about Native InterVarsity Native InterVarsity is "mindful of some complicated contexts. There is, for instance, the fact that a lot of Christian mission has the weight of colonialism.' But (InterVarsity) wants students to see that both God and the global church invite them to be witnesses to the gospel of Jesus “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8) Read more of their story here.
4. Kristen Lilya, Ojibwe, shares her story of how Deer Camp helped her connect with the generations in her family. Read more of personal account here.
5. Send me an email at [email protected] to connect with me or to ask me a question. Thanks.
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Join us for the next episode where you can build a hopeful vision for Native Christian communities in 2026 and beyond.