Program areas at Hope for Native America
NATIVE: Each summer, Warrior Leadership Summit is attended by hundreds of Native American and First Nations young people from across North America. This week-long conference provides answers - with the Bible as a base - for the significant battles Native young people face every day. The 2022 conferences was attended by over 480 Native youth from across the U.S. and Canada.From this conference, a team of 22 Native young people were selected to travel to two Native American communities during the month of July, which is less than last year due to Covid. This "Summer of Hope" team hosted six outreach events, where they are able to share their stories of Hope with thousands of their peers each summer. This strategy of Native young people bringing the hope they have personally found in a relationship with Jesus Christ to their own people has brought many of their people to faith in Christ.On Eagles' Wings also helps provide additional training for Native young people year-round, including Bible school scholarships for those who have been part of the Summer of Hope team. On Eagles' Wings issued several Bible school scholarship recipients.
SPEAKING: There were numerous personal speaking events, including radio interviews, conferences, and churches, reaching thousands of individuals.
CREATIVE: The creative team of RHM exists to promote and support the mission and vision of RHM through media and design.Warrior Leadership Summit - The Creative Development Department was able to produce several media pieces related to Warrior Leadership Summit 2022, including conference highlight videos, the pre-recorded sessions for the virtual conference and other supporting media pieces. With the theme "Rebels" everything from brochures and website design to DVDs and many other media pieces for social media were created.Warrior Worship - The Creative Development Department was able to help on this year's 2022 album "Rebel". This included artwork, music videos and lyric videos. This annual project helps get the word out as well as help provide worship music geared towards Native young people. Podcast -- "Go M.A.D. with Doug and Brad," is a bi-weekly 30-minute podcast conversation about how listeners can make the greatest possible impact through Jesus for the people in our world. Whether in conversations, on social media, at home or at work, listeners are challenged to be a M.A.D. person. (Go M.A.D. means "Go make a difference.") 2022 numbers include: 4,410 total downloads for 23 episodes.OEW Leadership centerThe Creative team is assisting in creating several action team reports on the progress of the leadership center as well as documenting the progress through video and photography. They also recorded and produced content around the Leadership Center Ohio event. This included promo videos tailored to a select group of people to hopefully encourage them to have similar events.President's Retreat - This department helped with technical and production aspects for the annual President's Retreat. This department also provided audio and visual support for the retreat weekend.
MOBILIZATION: RHM seeks to capture all possible technologies to spread the Good News of Jesus around the world. RHM uses multiple websites, including hutchcraft.com and oneagleswings.com to share the Gospel and to help others do the same. Through both terrestrial radio and the internet, countless are reached by a daily, five-minute radio feature that is heard on approximately 1,124 radio outlets in the U.S. and internationally. The radio program also airs around the world through multiple internet outlets including partnerships that translate the program into Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, and Russian. Programs can be heard by radio, mobile devices, and shortwave. Outreach by Internet is continually expanding, as is the utilization of social media, smartphones, and YouTube, to rapidly spread the message of Christ.299,186 Visitors on RHM websites from 195 countries. Approximately 1,124 U.S. & International outlets carrying daily AWWY radio broadcast. Approximately 18,831 total email subscribers to nine different email lists.
PATH: The Path is a year-round reservation-based part of the On Eagles' Wings ministry strategy, located in Arizona. Throughout the year, the Native American-led team in Arizona hosts weekly events for local young people, provides leadership training, holds small group Bible studies, and does one-on-one discipleship and mentoring.