A Seventh-day Adventist Boarding Academy Serving Native American Youth Since 1946
Outdoor School Builds Participants’ Everyday Faith in Unexpected Ways “We had no idea if we would find empty campsites,” Dalariyn (Class of ‘24) said. “But none of the juniors and seniors minded having an extra day of camping.”
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t takes a lot of everyday faith to transport 44 students 400 miles to a national park for a week of outdoor education. Calendar changes, campground closures, cafeteria staffing, and climate all conspired to cancel this year’s outdoor school program. Despite the challenges, the advanced group of staff and students stepped out in faith on October 2 and headed for Bryce Canyon National Park in hopes of securing campsites in the first-come, first-served section of Sunset Campground. God provided enough empty campsites close to restroom facilities to fit all 57 participants. On Thursday, 27 students ventured into the canyons near Mt. Carmel Junction for a day of transformative rappelling. “I want to learn how to rappel because I’m afraid of heights,” Amorah (Class of ‘25) said. Other students shared her fear, and the group watched in awe as the canyoneering guides offered to descend in tandem with the petrified students. This act of coming
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Holbrook Indian School