Growing Together
Growing Together is a newsletter supplement to The Messenger online but with a focus on what is happening in our culture and the issues that are challenging for the church.As a small church conference, we cannot, and will not try to do what larger organizations do. What we will do, is discuss the issues that have an impact on us, with arguments and material to assist us to think through issues intelligently from several angles. As with everything we do, we are committed to the Bible as inspired by God and the truth by which we live.
POV: An Indigenous kid in a white community
And so yeah, I was adopted in 1988 during a particularly harmful period in our nation's history… One of the longings of my heart was that my whole life, actually I wanted to be Indian—the term we use then. I would read books—well look at pictures in books—and just wish I could be like that. And yet the message that I heard in our—I heard constantly—not just… everywhere in this area was that Indians are garbage.