Chinle

Is there another one you'd like to

share? On the Navajo Reservation, I worked in Chinle, Arizona, Canyon de Chelly.

I don't know if you've ever been there.

It's a beautiful, beautiful area here in Arizona, northern Arizona.

them.

We got St. John's at Chinle December 3rd.

That's a scary drive and just a scary matchup just for the St. John's.

St. David versus Fort Thomas.

I

think it's scarier for Chinle, big dog, but we'll get to it.

We'll get to

it.

Hello, my name's Sean Martin.

I'm here in Chinle, Canyon de Chelly, the heart of the Navajo Nation.

People call me Sean.

My clans are or Metal Hat People Clan.

All right.

A little more context here.

So as Sean mentioned, we're in Chinle, Arizona.

which is Northern Arizona in the heart of the Navajo Nation, sometimes called the Navajo Reservation.

If you, just because work, there's not that much work.

I mean, unless you go to Chinle, you know, the bigger towns, Tuba City, Window Rock, Shiprock, um-

But that's all tourism, right?

Kinda, kind of like tourism, but you got-

And there's not a lot of it.

From here, it takes me 30 minutes to get to a local grocery store.

That's in Chinle, and it is, uh, not well-stocked, and the prices are outrageous-

[laughs]

Man, I had a race near the Four Corners, so New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado come together there in the Southwest.

I had a race in Chinle, Arizona, which is on the Navajo Nation land.

And dude, it was an experience.

Like top to bottom, the entire trip was awesome.

Mm-hmm.

And then you go to, like, the high desert once you head north out of there towards the Navajo Reservation, the Navajo Nation.

Yeah, so I was, like, maybe three hours from Chinle, which is where the race was, when I was in Show Low.

So headed out there.

Evelyn Charlie also went missing in twenty twenty-one.

She was from Chinle, Arizona, another Navajo woman whose case has received very, very little media attention.

Evelyn was twenty-three years old at that time.

Now, overall, Ella Mae's case really, really did push the MMIW crisis into the mainstream media.

Listen to me.

I am certain that if God can help Chinle, God can help you.

The text that is our theme in Romans 10, 14 through 15.

The sermon I've entitled Still Sending.

about counting the cost.

The whole picture of church planting has some rather cruel realities that we need to talk about.

Coming from Chinle, Arizona, where everything seems to be more difficult than usual and normal, the cost of responding to this responsibility The cost of planting churches must also be considered this morning.

This cannot be watered down.

She simply said, "I don't know." So there was always this longing in my mother's heart.

And so my mother and father, late, uh, 1963, um, at Our Lady of Fatima in Chinle on the Navajo Reservation, part of my diocese, when they started to take instruction from Father Ivo Zerkelbach-

Mm

... um, the very first thing he did, he came to the house, he opened up the book, went to John 6, and read it, explained it.