One of those methods is a podcast.
The Victory Call podcast is hosted by FoNAC Board Member Josh Leadingfox, pastor of Immokalee First Seminole Baptist Church on the Immokalee reservation in Southwest Florida.
The 30-minute podcast first aired audio-only in mid-April. It started as a way to help a Florida congregation on the Miccosukee reservation in South Florida continuing to meet after their longtime pastor had died.
Leadingfox, who knew how hard it is to find a Native pastor, had learned how to produce a podcast during the COVID shutdown, and thought he could help by giving the congregation something to listen to from a Native perspective.
And then there is “The Hope” video series. These are 80-minute films in 70 languages “of God’s epic story of redemption as revealed in the Bible, from creation through the promised return of Christ.”
School to the Nations, a Missouri nonprofit ministry, is help crafting several Native American-specific adaptations and supporting materials of “The Hope” that provide cross-cultural and missions training to equip churches to make inroads to the unreached.
One video focuses on the Northern Plains with scenes of buffalo, and for the Navajo, scenes of red rock landscapes. Producers hope the videos will open doors for opportunities to share the gospel.