Naomi House
Arizona
Navajo Nation
south dakota
Pine Ridge / Oglala
Standing Rock
Cow Creek
montana
Rocky Boy
Northern Cheyenne
574+
Seven Council Fire Nations + Kingdom Council
OUR NAOMI HOUSE STORY
The following is an excerpt from my book: Send Me I’ll Go)
Generation Now
“There will be descendants who serve him a generation that will be told about Adonai.” ~Psalm 22:30 (NOG)~
One evening I was driving home with a ten-year-old boy. In the few months that he and his younger siblings had lived with us, we had never talked much about where he came from or why he was placed with us in our children’s home. We have found that if we do not put too much emphasis on any one child or situation as they come into the new family dynamic, they are able to adjust to a “new-temporary normal” much easier.
On this very rare occasion, it was just he and I in the car. As we were driving that night, he began to share his story, and my heart broke–one more time. I learned that his mother had been “cut with an ax” on her arm one night by his intoxicated father while the children looked on. Every adult in the house was under the influence.
“Where is he, your father, now?” I asked. “Dead.” He replied very bluntly. He continued, “His girlfriend gave him some kind of drug when he came out of prison, and it killed him.”
“Don’t your two siblings have different dads?” I asked, trying to act like that wasn’t the most devastating news I’d ever heard. Well, at least since the story of the child before. “Yes,” he answered, “he’s in prison though because he raped his girlfriend and killed her.”
Looking back on that evening, driving in the car, listening to another child’s story, I realized he said it all so matter-of-fact-like and with almost no emotion. It sent chills down my spine as I remembered the gravity of the phrase I often use and think I comprehend when I say it:
“The realities of growing up Indigenous in America today are very different than in most other cultures and people groups. Beneath the resilience and beauty of the First Nations people lies extreme peril, and often, unspeakable trauma that harshly affects the most vulnerable of all–the children!" Over the years, hundreds of children have come through the NAOMI House doors. The following stories can be very difficult to hear, but I share them because it is the daily reality of many families.
“It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
ARIZONA Campus Directors: Jessica Tagler and Joey Hemsoth
DONATE NAOMI HOUSE ARIZONA: Founded in 1993 serving the Navajo Nation.
Current Needs: House parents. Interns.
Contact: info@thenaomihouse.org
SOUTH DAKOTA Director and Pine Ridge Campus Director: Katie Ford
STANDING ROCK, SOUTH DAKOTA Location: Fronda Yellow Earrings
DONATE NAOMI HOUSE SOUTH DAKOTA LOCATION: Founded in 2023 serving the Oglala Lakota Nation + Future Site: Standing Rock Sioux Nation.
NEEDS: House parents. New children’s home built. Large vehicle.
CONTACT: katie@thenaomihouse.org
Please specify NAOMI HOUSE PINE RIDGE or STANDING ROCK location when you give.
MONTANA Director: Bruce Meyer (Rocky Boy)
DONATE NAOMI HOUSE MONTANA : Tribal Leaders Council Resolution of Support for all 13 tribes of Montana, August 2025.
NEEDS: Identify tribal member who will run different safe houses + house parents + Montana Board of Directors
CONTACT: meyersbruce@gmail.com
Please specify NAOMI HOUSE montana when you give your donation
the bigger picture
KINGDOM COUNCILS ON RESERVATIONS
Although children’s safe houses are vital and necessary, we all know there is a Bigger Picture. Success is not about more houses built and more bedrooms filled with children. Truly, success would look like moms and dads encountering the ‘real Jesus’ and being delivered from all of the prevalent evils that plague Native America, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, hopelessness, and suicide, to name a few.
Success would look like the restoration of the broken-down family structure, as well as deliverance and healing of bloodlines with households marked by revival. Success would look like First Nation people rising up from within – in God given identity, authority, and wholeness – and ultimately, we know that the heart of God is for the healing of the nations.
UNIFIED KINGDOM LEADERSHIP IN NATIVE AMERICA
God has given us a strategy to not only meet the immediate need for children’s safety, but to begin working with the Native Christian Leaders on Reservations.
What is a Kingdom Council? God is highlighting the one, two, three, or more on reservations of America + Canada and beyond who have the revelation:
that Jesus is the Messiah
that as First Nations they hold the keys of authority over their land and territory
of the tremendous need for inner healing and deliverance in the Christian leadership level, in order to link arms, come together in unity and see His Kingdom come and His will be done on earth, as in heaven.
The Lord has been sending us to Indigenous Nations since 2021, and we have seen incredible movement in inner healing, deliverance, unity and mobilizing.
We are seeing a powerful movement of God’s Spirit across Native America.
This is a picture of the heart, mandate, and direction of Tribes Arise, Int’l.