The Gathering at LdF

04/05/2026

Meeting at 1:30 at Veteran's Building Easter Sunday. Jesus lives! Let's talk about what Easter is really all about!
A light snack is on the menu. Hoping everyone has a beautiful Easter breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner with friends and family celebrating the true reason for this blessed day.
Yes, Jesus loves me..🎵🎶 the Bible tells me so...

03/29/2026

Let's hear more about how Amazing our Creator and Savior is! You ARE so loved!

03/15/2026

A reminder that the Gathering will NOT be meeting well... because... it's a BLIZZARD out there!! Stay home. Be safe and never forget you were created for a purpose and know that you are loved! We will see you next Sunday at 1:30.

03/01/2026

Today we're going to discuss a man who hated and persecuted followers of Jesus then had a life-changing moment where he came to know who Jesus really is and it changed his life forever.
Come join us we set a place for you at the table! 1:30 at the Veteran's building.

02/22/2026

Sorry. The Building was double booked so we will have to cancel today, Feb. 22nd. See you next Sunday!

02/21/2026

The Gathering exists for the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe community. Lac du Flambeau has a beautiful blend of Native people representing a number of tribes and cultural ‘blends’. Many grew up in ‘the church’ whether going to Sunday school, VBS or both. Some attended a Presbyterian church, some attended the “little white church” or the local Catholic church.
These local churches are no longer filled with Native families gathering for picnics, Sunday school and VBS at least not from my viewpoint. A few brave Natives drive into the neighboring town and attend mostly non-Native churches. Thankfully there is the Foundation church that brings their bus into LdF picking up 5-10 year olds Wednesdays for an hour of Bible teaching, food and fun hoping seeds of God’s love and truth are being planted into their hearts.

I believe God has a plan for something new.

“For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19

I believe Jesus has opened the way for The Gathering in LdF; a place within the Lac du Flambeau reservation for Native men and women to gather and learn of our Savior and Creator, Jesus Christ. A place to ask any question and discover God’s answer. A safe place to gather to be nourished with food for the body and to find nourishment for the soul. A place to learn of God’s amazing story. A place to have your burdens shared and prayed for believing God hears and answers. God is raising up Native believers in Jesus who will lead the way for Natives to hear the truth from ‘one of their own’.

I am an Ojibwe who was adopted and raised by Stockbridge Mohican WWII veterans who followed the Creator and Savior, Jesus. I attended a church on the edge of the reservation. Sunday mornings, Sunday nights, Wednesday nights, and VBS. My Native father was a church elder who sometimes preached and the visiting pastors seemed to always eat at our house after church. I would hear my mom singing hymns all day as she worked around the house and garden and I played piano from a young age when the pastor could only choose the hymns I had already learned to play whether or not they went with his message. I sang in the church choir before I could read well.
My identity is as a Christ-following Native American who has never doubted I was created in the image of God. I have no memory of not knowing Jesus. I have always believed He created me eventually learning exactly how when I read David’s words,

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” Psalm 139: 13.

I was so grateful to write these words in the first card I gave for Mother’s day after meeting the mom who carried me within her- the mom who chose to give me life.
The Gathering at LdF exists for others like me who seemed to never fit easily into one culture group; too Native for one or too white for another. Talk about identity issues! Jesus -through His Holy Spirit- made it clear to my heart that He does not look at the outside to define my identity but rather is looking at my heart. My identity is within me, not on my jewelry or my clothes or if I can speak Ojibwe well.

The Gathering at Lac du Flambeau is for the Ojibwe Native for full-bloods and half-bloods, card carrying tribal members or those who are a mix of many tribes and nations with or without a ‘card’ to prove it. The doors are open to all. We will love you and accept you. Do you need see a pathway through your wilderness? Do you need to see rivers in your dry wasteland? Join us. We will hear your story, your heart and your questions. We will pray for you, sing with you and love you knowing you too were created in the image of God, woven together in your mother’s womb and hopefully believing God has a plan for you!

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope”. Jeremiah 29:11

“Maamigin – Gathering”
Yes, we are a people gathering together to grow in our faith in Jesus.

I hope to see you there! Sundays, 1:30 at the Veteran's building in LdF!

02/16/2026

Belated invite OR early for next week to The Gathering in LdF!

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01/18/2026

1:30 at the Veteran's building. Good day for Chili and Corn bread! Great day to talk about our amazing Creator!
See you there!

12/14/2025

Soup, inspiration ( & more) is on the menu! 4:30 at the Veteran's building!

12/06/2025

The Gathering is meeting tomorrow at 1pm! Sort of a tailgating worship and Bible study time! Veteran's Building. Faith, family.... then football!

11/23/2025

It's Time! Randy is taking his many trips unloading all his food he was working on this afternoon for us. We also briefly reviewed our little skit not sure how it's going to go! But it's always fun and helps to bring the Bible and it's true stories alive!