USA (MNN) — Summer isn’t quite over yet in the United States, but On Eagles’ Wings, a division of Hutchcraft Ministries, just concluded its annual Summer of Hope outreach.

“We went to six different reservations. It was, in essence, six mission trips in a month, and on those six reservations, we encountered tremendous need and wonderful breakthroughs,” Hutchcraft Ministries founder Ron Hutchcraft says.

“Thirty-eight young men and women from over 20 different tribes in this country and Canada conducted 17 outreach rescue events, [and had] hundreds of Gospel conversations.”

Read the Summer of Hope 2024 summary reports here.

On one reservation, a team member we’ll call Amy saw a 12-year-old girl crying, so she asked the little girl what was wrong.

The girl told Amy, “She lost 12 people in less than a year, half of them to suicide, and she saw them all die. Her grandmother and her brother are all she has left,” Hutchcraft says.

“Her brother is suicidal. She said if he commits suicide, she will too.”

Amy hugged the little girl and gave her reason to hope. Amy later told Hutchcraft, “We both cried a lot. I talked to Jesus with her and about her, and she gave her life to Jesus that night.”

(Photo courtesy of On Eagles Wings/Hutchcraft Ministries)

The little girl carries a notebook with her in which she writes people’s names. “Amy said, ‘She wrote my name in her book, and it said, Amy, my best friend led me to Jesus,’” Hutchcraft says.

“That night in heaven, there was another book with that little girl’s name in it. It’s the Book of Life.”

Conversations like this one happened every night during the Summer of Hope.

“I’m happy to report that God used these dear young men and women to help 368 Native American young people move from hopelessness to hope as they began a personal relationship with Jesus,” Hutchcraft says.

“God was with this team all summer long. Zephaniah 3:17 says, ‘The LORD your God is with you. He is the mighty warrior that saves,’ and He moved among the first people of our land this summer.”

Header and story images courtesy of On Eagles’ Wings/Hutchcraft Ministries.