On Eagles Wings - Ron Hutchcraft Ministries

A Warrior for Christ

Day three at Warrior Leadership Summit brought some more awesome "Kodak" God moments. We started off with a dear Sioux (Sisseton/Wahpeton) brother of ours talking about Queen Esther from the Bible and how she stood up, took a stand, and reached her own people for Christ, and how these young warriors can take that same stand. It was awesome to hear him challenge them face to face and to see their response as he told them that they needed to take a stand.

In this video, Doug Hutchcraft talks about how Native warriors are being willing to sacrifice to win victories for Christ. Many Native young people are making commitments to go back to their home reservations and share the Gospel with their people. Doug also expresses his appreciation for the many people who are supporting this work in prayer.

A Surge to the Cross

You have helped put on this event. Your prayers have brought us here, and it may very well be that your gifts have literally enabled some of these young people to come here from some corner of North America. We now know that this is definitely the largest Warrior Leadership Summit we’ve ever had. There are 622 people here, and they represent 70 different nations. We have grown from about fifty people not very many years ago, and God continues to enlarge the impact of this conference!

Yesterday morning, a first-time Native speaker here, Pastor Bobby, came and spoke to us and talked about Mary Magdalene. At each session we’re talking about a great warrior of the Bible, because our theme this year is The Warrior Way. We talked about how Mary Magdalene was willing to stick by Jesus when there seemed to be no reason to stick by Him. He had died. He was buried. He’d been in the tomb, and Mary Magdalene refused to defect.

That’s the way of a warrior, and it was a marvelous challenge to young people who will go back to some of the hardest environments in America. There might not be another group of young people for whom that kind of a message would be more important. That’s why we have to pray for these kids, because they go back to toxic places where they stand alone. Here they are not alone and they know that.