Mission Plate for October: Navajoland
According to the 2025 schedule the Mission Plate offering for October will be a collection for Friends of Navajoland, a volunteer membership association of persons and entities established to support the Mission and Ministry of The Episcopal Church in Navajoland (ECN). Friends of Navajoland cultivates church-wide awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of Navajo Culture, traditions, and spirituality as complementary of Episcopal theology and the mission of ECN. In December 2016 Bishop David Bailey and the ECN Council established Friends as an unincorporated association and ministry of the ECN. The Bishop and Council appointed individuals to serve on the Friends advisory board of directors, with board members and officers to include active Navajo leaders. Each board member is aproven church leader or a participant in a recent mission retreat or pilgrimage to Navajoland and has demonstrated a heart for ECN’s work by donating resources or otherwise supporting ECN’s ministry. The Friends’ board of directors includes local Navajo leaders and other church officials, including bishops, from across the Church. The Friends board and executive committee, appointed by the Bishop, are the planning and decision-making body for Friends’ projects and ministry. Friends of Navajoland encourages and promotes cross-cultural understanding and support of the ministry of The Episcopal Church in its Navajoland Area Mission. All financial donors to ECN, its Economic Development Corporation, or its churches are automatic members of Friends. If we have supported Friends of Navajoland in the past then we at Holy Trinity are members of this association. For more information see the Friends of Navajoland Website, [https://friendsofnavajoland.org/], and the Friends of Navajoland Booklist page [https://friendsofnavajoland.org/navajoland-booklist/] if you are interested in learning more from Native American writers