A Seventh-day Adventist Boarding Academy Serving Native American Youth Since 1946
Called to Serve: Staff Stories
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olbrook Indian School (HIS) is located in the historic little town of Holbrook, Arizona. Coming to HIS feels a little like being in a far-off mission field across the ocean (but with no ocean.) For our staff, coming to HIS is a calling. It takes a true commitment to be here. We hope you enjoy learning about some of our
experiences of how we came to work at HIS.
Loren and Diana Fish: Director of Counseling and Director of Development By Diana Fish My husband, Loren, and I had our dream jobs. He had a successful counseling practice, and I worked as a development officer for Global Mission Initiatives at Advent Health. We were happy living the beach life in Florida. We were both active in the church, but something seemed to be missing. We began praying for God to lead us into working in full-time ministry together. However, we weren’t looking to move anywhere— except maybe back to Tennessee, where our children and grandchildren live. In 2014, I made a last-minute decision to attend a conference organized by the NAD’s Women’s Ministries Department. It was a time of powerful prayer and surrendering of self to God. During my time there, I happened to walk by the Holbrook Seventh-day
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Adventist Indian School booth in the exhibition hall, and I noticed some beautiful horsehair, student-made pottery. I bought three pieces. As I made the purchase, a woman at the booth asked about my work. When I told her that I worked in development, she excitedly pointed at the other woman in the booth. “She is our development director, and she is retiring,” she said. She then proceeded to tell me that Holbrook was located in Arizona, and I thought to myself, There is no chance that we are moving there.… To read the rest of Loren and Diana’s story, visit HolbrookIndianSchool. org/staff-stories.