Our Story

It was another hot, August day 2005 in Albequerque, New Mexico as I searched frantically for an air-conditioned building where I could find some solace from the heat and humidity. The week-long Native youth conference at Menaul School had just ended, the students were in their buses and vans heading back to wherever home might be, and I just wanted to find a place where I could lay my head down and cool off. That which I sought came in the form of a library. It would be another day before I left New Mexico, so I figured that I would have plenty of time to rest and recuperate. But as I lay my head down on the only couch in the building, I found that, although my body was weary and longed for rest, my mind and spirit had other ideas. Reluctantly, I dragged my body off of the couch and began to pace the library floor.  I was so restless and I didn’t know why.  As I passed the same bookshelf for the fifteenth time, Creator’s Spirit began to methodically speak to me. I began to speak out loud that which I heard very quietly inside…

My people were here long before the others cast their sails to the wind
Before the tears of innocence like a heartbreak would descend
My people spread like eagles wings across the mountains and the plains
Now our feathers have been broken, but the eagle still remains

As this Bill Miller song played over and over in my heart, Creator softly told me that this was what I was to be in the habit of doing—mending wings.  Mending the wings of our people so that we can fly again in wholeness, within the strength and beauty of our cultures, as followers of The Jesus Way.  With that, Mending Wings Ministries was born.

Gina and I stand amazed and humbled by the goodness of God when I see all that Mending Wings has become, and is becoming, since our humble beginnings in 2005. We are experiencing a move of God in our hearts, and in our ministry, that is causing us to burst with anticipation at the new direction He is taking us.  We invite you to join us in praying for increased wisdom and spiritual insight as we wait on God for His direction and clarity of vision. He is so good, and we are expecting to be overcome by that goodness.