Michael Hogan is interning at the Kayenta Church of Christ in Kayenta, Arizona to help strengthen church leadership and make the church self-sufficient. He has taken over teaching the teen Sunday school class and two students, Titus and Darian, are close to being baptized with encouragement. A new member, Tracy, was recently baptized but is struggling with his ex-wife and being a role model to his son. The church also held two successful outreach events, a laundry outreach where they paid for people's laundry and shared their faith, and a four-day adult bible camp that was spiritually uplifting for 80-120 people.

1. No. 2 Navajo Missions Internship Michael Hogan
Kayenta, AZ
(501) 242-1888 PO Box 1040
mhogan2@harding.edu Kayenta, AZ 86033
SO many things have happened since coming to Kayenta and I wish you were here to wit-
ness how God is working through the church and the members here!
First of all, I would like to clarify if I haven’t already that my main purpose and mission here is
not evangelism or youth ministry (although those are close behind), but strengthening and
upholding the leadership here so that one day soon they may be able to be self-sufficient and
no longer need the constant aid of missionaries. Within this mission we have seen that the
leaders have had limited guidance and with just instruction from previous missionaries, they
have become burned out.
Because the Kayenta Church is relatively below average in size, there is only one constant
children/teens teacher for two classes. Soon after the second week I was thrusted into teach-
ing the teen class so the current burnt out teacher could rest, and a week later I found my
grounds. I can now gladly say that the teens are hard at work on a NT-based curriculum cov-
ering the life and teachings of Jesus (which they started with the previous teacher a month
before I arrived). But more importantly I want to bring to your attention two souls from the
class: Titus and Darian.
We have found out that these two students are very close to accepting Christ on in baptism.
They both know some basics, believe in God, and roughly understand salvation; but they just
need a little extra encouraging push to make the decision for themselves. Please pray for
these two and their journeys as I am in a bible study with Titus, and Darian’s uncle is in a
study with her.
Also on the topic of baptism, I would like to welcome a
new brother into the fold of church. After multiple 2.5
hour bible studies late into the night with Evan (a brother
on break from Bear Valley School of Preaching), Tracy
(pictured) has firmly decided to put on Christ in baptism
at midnight a few weeks ago. But please keep him in
your prayers as well. Satan is using his ex-wife to really
mess with him and lead him from the church, and he is
having a difficult time understanding eternal rest, staying
with the church, and being a constant positive and
strong role model to his son.

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Aside from evangelism, I really want to share with you two great events we were a part of re-
cently. The first is a laundry outreach. One of my responsibilities I was given this summer was
to organize a community outreach activity. So I thought about it and offered the idea that I
witnessed a church do in North Little Rock; that is to show up at a laundromat for a number of
hours and offer to pay for everyone’s laundry as a kind gesture in the name of Christ. So many
members came to volunteer! I would just like to show you an excerpt of a report I did on the
event.
“The way we did the logistics was that everyone was given strips of encouraging scripture,
a church business card, and a roll of quarters. We started with $260 worth and ended
with around $40. Each member present was expected to greet people coming in and of-
fer to pay for their laundry as well as tell them why we were there when giving scripture
and a card. Only a handful of people were adamant about us not paying for them, but
most were glad that we were there, including the employees.
We ended up being there from 6:30am-12:00pm or so and throughout that time we
made some good contacts, shared prayers, stories, tears, and lots of laughs with those that
came that day unintentionally. A number of people I remember talking to was a JW goer;
a Baptist goer; and Gloria who sells snacks, goes to the fitness center every morning, and
wanted to get plugged into community work next time we do something; and two Uni-
versity of Texas students (out of a 24-student biker gang) that stopped in Kayenta that day
on their 70-day bike journey from Austin to Anchorage to ride for cancer research. It was
also interesting that while we helped them with their 24-person laundry, Cory overheard
them mentioning that they were having trouble getting bottled water donated for their
trip and decided to take care of that with his own money.”
The Navajo man in the right picture is Al, one of the leaders of the Kayenta church and a
volunteer at the laundry outreach

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The second event was actually more of a surprise to me because no one told me about it un-
til two weeks prior; and that was an adult bible camp – which I was supposed to deliver a les-
son at.
We just got back from the camp a few days ago and I don’t think I can fully say how uplifting
it was. The theme for our four-day camp was the book of Joshua, and boy was it thick in text.
This was mostly a bible camp for all the churches on the reservation here (around six or so),
but it also drew in volunteers from Texas and friends and relatives from other states who
were interested in the work – totaling at 80-120 people (including a large amount of children
and teens). As we went through Joshua, it was my turn on the third day, and I gave a 30-min
lesson on Joshua 5:13-15. Each verse we focused on something different: our human habit
of putting our own concerns over God’s, the reverence due to God and his will, and the
readiness we are to have to follow it. We ended that passage with an overarching message
to think before we act: to remember to bend to God’s Will, and not to try to bend God to our
will; and added supporting scripture reminding us how we are to treat different people and
situations.
Overall, I thank God for such a spiritually focused experience this summer, and have been re-
ally rejuvenated to go out and stand more for God’s word and not be as lazy about his com-
mission. I also can’t wait to see how I can apply the principles learned to my last year at Har-
ding and a business career in the future.
So as always,
Shalom
Michael Hogan