Indigenous Faith

In this second and final installment of the Smiths VIP interview with dear friends and ministry partners, Huron and Lois Claus, the visit continues as both couples share how deep their relationship is with each other.  There's a lot of history covered as the Smiths and Clauses reminisce about days gone by where each family contributed to the spiritual health and vitality of the other.  Also,...

Today Craig and LaDonna Smith begin a two part visit with some of their closest friends and ministry colleagues, Huron and Lois Claus of CHIEF Ministries.  In one of the most fascinating stories of the work of God in the lives of a Native American family, Huron unpackages the multi-generational story of this Mohawk family whose exposure to the gospel goes back to the 1700's.  He shares the po...

In today's final episode in the three part series on looking back and looking ahead, we revisit the timely devotional Craig presents from the prophet Isaiah in chapter 9 about a child being born and a son being give, and from the last part of the next verse (v. 7), he offers some interesting reflection on the truth about the zeal of God almighty will accomplish this.  So what's the &quot...

Welcome to 2025 and another year of  Indigenous Faith!   Craig and LaDonna trust you will continue to be ministered to by all of the episodes they plan to present in this new year.  In today's episode, they continue their humorous journey back into past Christmas happenings within their family and home churches that have provided them lifelong memories to cherish and to keep.  Craig also take...

In this final episode of Indigenous Faith  in 2024, Craig and LaDonna take a nostalgic look back over their lives and reminisce about Christmases past, offering some of the more touching and funny experiences they each had growing up, and also from their experiences with their local church bodies when it came time for the kids Christmas plays, pageants and celebrations.  It's always a good th...

In this fourth and final episode of the Smith's summary of their recent Christ My Healer, Christ My Health series,  Craig and LaDonna finish their extensive review of the significant points of what the Scriptures teach about Christ's work in the sufferers.  Craig reminds us of the admonition of the Lord to Moses as they were stuck between the Red Sea and the advancing Egyptian army, comi...

In this third episode of the Smith's summary of their Divine Healing, Divine Health series, Craig and LaDonna pick up where they left off at the end of last week's session.  They were answering the question, Is it God's will that we all be healed at all times ?  Clearly the Scriptures point out that God's ways are not the ways of the health, wealth, and prosperity preachers fil...

In part two of the Smith's summary of their series on Divine Healing and Divine Health, Craig and LaDonna remind us how this revisit to the last 8 episodes was an important thing to do.  It came from Craig's third trip back to death's door in 2024 as he battled four serious outbreaks of infections in his body.  That, along with his battle with Covid and the aftermath of the accident...

After two months of episodes in their  Christ My Healer, Christ My Health  series, Craig and LaDonna take the next few weeks to summarize all the teaching and explaining about the doctrine of Divine Healing and the doctrine of Divine Health.  The Smiths felt it important enough because it is easy to forget details when it has taken 8 episodes to share on the subject matter at hand.  But before the...

In this eighth episode of Christ My Healer, Christ My Health , Craig and LaDonna wrap up final thoughts about the Bema Seat of Christ, or where He gives out rewards for the good works His people have done while walking with Christ on earth, and making the case that while all those who are saved will have the ultimate reward of an eternity with Christ, there's also rewards the Lord will give o...

Have you been encouraged by this series on Divine Health and Divine Healing?  We sure hope so, dear friend.  In today's episode, the Smiths complete their answer to why God allows those He's called into full-time ministry to often suffer deeply while serving Him.  There's not only a call to serve , but a call to suffer placed on the lives of many servants of Christ.  And why should...

In today's continuation of this important series on Christ My Healer, Christ My Health , LaDonna shares some of the unique ways God used her to bring hope to other hurting families in the UNM Hospital's Trauma ICU Unit while Craig lay in an almost two month coma.  Up and down the corridor of this major trauma unit were family after family who's lives were turned upside down as their...

In today's episode, Craig and LaDonna Smith continue to share about the Divine Health that was being manifested in Craig's very broken body in the accident that neither he nor LaDonna should have survived.  Craig shares from Exodus 14:14 the truth that God will fight our battles for us when we are physically, emotionally, and mentally unable to do so.  He also shares how the issue of his...

As today's edition of Indigenous Faith begins, Craig Smith answers the all-important question of how does a person transfer their focus from Christ My Healer , to Christ My Health when the Lord chooses not to give us the divine healing we are asking Him for?  His answer may be surprising to you, dear friend!  And as Craig notes, it was God's Holy Word that once again, in it's unique...

In today's episode, Craig and LaDonna go deeper into the issue of Christ our healer as they unpackage the difference between genuine Divine Healing and the less than biblical issue of Faith Healing and faith healers that you often see on Christian television and is tied to the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel so prevalent today.  Craig also takes the Word of God to answer the question, ...

In today's episode, Craig and LaDonna Smith continue their study on the issue of Christ My Healer, Christ My Health.  The Smith's point out that throughout all of the Scriptures in both the Old and New Testament, healing has always been an important part of God's interaction with mankind.  The Smith's take us to passages in Exodus, Psalms, Isaiah, as well as review the work of...

In today's episode, Craig and LaDonna begin an in-depth study on the issue of Christ and suffering in a series they are titling,  Christ My Healer, Christ My Health.   For over fifteen years, the Smiths have experienced a deeper place in the Lord in their ongoing pain and suffering that came about from an auto accident neither of them should have survived.  Most recently, Craig has battled fo...

In this, the third and final episode in the VIP interview the Smiths had with Caitlyn Denet, she shares the incredible story of how the Lord used her in the life of her traditional medicine man grandfather as he was at the end of his earthly life.  Having been used by God to be a spiritual rescuer among Indigenous youth across North America, God once again used Caitlyn to be the bridge to the gosp...

In today's second of a three part VIP interview with Navajo young believer, Caitlyn Denet, Craig and LaDonna ask her about the challenges, struggles, and victories she experienced as a Native student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois.  After seeing God work in the lives of her parents, who were originally not supportive of her desire to go to Bible School instead of pursuing a deg...

Today, Craig and LaDonna start a three part VIP (Victorious Indigenous People) interview series with Caitlyn Denet from the Navajo Nation.  Caitlyn is a young Native evangelist who is being powerfully used by the Lord to bring the gospel to her peers through the wonderful On Eagles' Wings ministry.  Like so many of her generation, Caitlyn grew up in the challenges of living in a family that w...

In this final episode in this three part series, Craig begins to share the tools they have been developing in helping Indigenous believers in Christ learn to live biblically healthy lives in the context of their cultures and communities.  This message was presented at the Billy Graham sponsored Native Leadership Conference in Rapid City, SD, in May 2022.  The Smiths are grateful to Will Graham, gr...

In today's episode, Craig continues his message preached at the Billy Graham sponsored Native Leader's Conference in May 2022 in Rapid City, SD.  Craig continues to take listeners into both Old and New Testament passages that help define what biblical health looks like in the context of believers who come to faith in Christ out of animistic cultures.  The Smiths are happy to rebroadcast...

In the next three episodes, the Smiths take you back to when Craig preached at the Billy Graham sponsored Native Leadership Conference in May 2022 in Rapid City, SD on the invitation of Will Graham.  This rebroadcast helps lay the biblical foundation for the discipling of Native American and First Nations followers of Christ.  It introduces to the audience an important overview of the whole  Indig...

In today's broadcast we are revisiting an interview we had with Will Graham, grandson of Dr. Billy Graham and one of the lead evangelists in the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.  Will is committed to including Native communities in his very busy schedule of outreach events that take him all over the world.  This session was recorded as the Smiths were part of a BGEA sponsored Native Lea...

In today's third and final episode in the VIP interview with ministry colleagues, Randy and Evangeline Jackson, the Jacksons continue to discuss end time prophecy with hosts Craig and LaDonna Smith.  The day after this episode is released globally, Randy and Evangeline will be preaching and singing at a prophecy conference at the Smith's home church in Cass Lake, Minnesota.  August 11-14...