Native American Indian Ministry

Welcome to the Native American Indian Ministry of the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Whether you are Christian, Native traditionalist or another faith, you are welcome to join in our work with and advocacy for Native people. If you would like to join the Conference working group, contact one of the listed persons at the end of this page. If you choose to use the information here to work on your own, thank you for your time and interest.

These are some of our issues and how you can help:

• Native American Ministries Offering Sunday
• Trust Fund Accountability
• Native American Indian events in the RMC

Native Americans and John Wesley

In England, John Wesley, Methodism's founder, was appalled by the atrocities Europeans committed against Native Americans. He poured out his moral outrage on European Christians, including the English colonists. In his sermon "A Caution Against Bigotry," Wesley doesn't gloss over anything:

Even cruelty and bloodshed, how little have the Christians come behind them! And not the Spaniards or the Portuguese alone, butchering thousands in South America: not the Dutch only in the East Indies, or the French in North America, following the Spaniards step by step: our own countrymen, too, have wantoned in blood, and exterminated whole nations; plainly proving thereby what spirit it is that dwells and works in the children of disobedience.

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8/14/07