On Eagles Wings - Ron Hutchcraft Ministries

A New Generation of Warriors

Let me welcome you to Day One of Warrior Leadership Summit (WLS). I’m living the answers to your prayers. We prayed that this might be the largest gathering at a Warrior Leadership Summit we’ve ever had. It was only a few years ago that fifty Native young people came together, and then there were a hundred, and then there were a couple of hundred. I’m excited to tell you that there are over six hundred people at this Warrior Leadership Summit. There are also seventy nations represented here. What a day it has been!

We’ve had vans, cars, and planes. Vehicles have come from all over. We’ve had people come from an Eskimo Village right next to the Bering Sea, all the way across Northern Canada—people who left two and a half days ago to start driving here. It’s almost like there has been a magnet at this conference center drawing Native young people from all over the continent. They have literally come from the four corners of the United States and Canada.

This year, we even have for the first time, representatives from the largest Indian tribe in the world from South America. We have our first Native leaders from there here at WLS. This thing is literally almost spanning the hemisphere in terms of the people that are participating.

It was the summer of broken chains!

The participants at the Warrior Leadership Summit conference all wore them. Paper chains that symbolized the real bondages of young Native lives - the sins, the addictions, the pain.

As I stepped out on the stage the final night, I walked through broken “chains” everywhere. Throughout the week, these once-hopeless young people had torn them off and left them at Jesus' cross. They came enslaved. They left free! And now they would help set others free.

Update from Team Canada

A Gathering of the Nations

Huge crowds lined the way as athletes from hundreds of Nations passed by during the opening ceremonies of a much anticipated international sporting event. No, I'm not talking about the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. What I'm referring to is where a gathering of close to 5,000 athletes would compete and represent their nations.

Update from Team Canada

Hard to get to...Even harder to leave!

There couldn't be a greater contrast from the last urban community to where the caravan was now heading.