USA (MNN) — Drugs and alcohol define a lot of lives on the Northridge reservation. Too many people have decided there is no reason to go on living. Yet a recent visit by the On Eagles’ Wings team injected hope.

Ron Hutchcraft of Hutchcraft Ministries says that’s the point of the On Eagles’ Wings Summer of Hope outreach – introducing desperate people to the hope of Christ.

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“Hope is defiant confidence,” Hutchcraft says. “On the most brutal winter days, you have this defiant confidence that says there will be flowers sometime here soon. That’s a picture of hope [regarding] reaching out to Native America, where hope is so rare.”

On Eagles’ Wings, a division of Hutchcraft Ministries, equips Native believers to be ambassadors for Christ among their people. From July 6 to August 1, dozens of Native American believers share their hope stories on reservations throughout the United States.

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“This Jesus, not the white man’s God, [but] a brown-skinned man from a tribe called Judah, who also was a victim of terrible injustice and died a violent death – this Jesus is the place we found hope,” Hutchcraft says, summarizing the messages so many Native youth will share.

“[That’s the] defiant confidence we can now live with because we have the certainty that something redemptive is on the way.”

Your gift can help cover all the costs to fully equip a young warrior for Summer of Hope – transportation, lodging, food, and ministry materials. Learn more here. Pray many lives will change as a result of the Summer of Hope.

Header and story images courtesy of Hutchcraft Ministries.