Richard Twiss - One Church, Many Tribes

PRAISE FOR

ONE CHURCH,
MANY TRIBES

God has never been as limited as His people in lovingly disseminating and embracing the gospel through diverse native cultures and paradigms. Richard Twiss opens our eyes to the heritage and wonders of our First Nation brothers and sisters and their unique expression of true Christianity.

Ch Ahn

Author of Into the Fire
Senior Pastor, Harvest Rock Church
Pasadena, California

Richard Twiss has given us an outstanding, long-needed book that will help bring compassion and reconciliation between diverse peoples created in the image of God and for whom Christ died. Highly recommended.

Bill Bright

Author of Red Sky in the Morning
Cofounder, Campus Crusade for Christ
Orlando, Florida

I have often been blessed by the host people of our land, but this book brought a depth of understanding I never possessed. Richard Twiss, whom I have known and admired for years, shows us how Native American culture can reveal new dimensions of the greatness of our Creator. This revolutionary book has the power to change our nation!

Bobbye Byerly

Director of Prayer and Intercession, World Prayer Center
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Richard Twiss has a great heart for reconciliation and for reaching the world with the gospel of Christ. Earnest readers will be enriched and challenged with the profound insights he shares. I pray that God will use this thoughtful book to move many of us to reach out to Native Americans with the compassion and understanding of our Lord, Jesus Christ!

Paul A. Cedar

Chairman, Mission America, Palm Desert, California

The Creator has raised up His servant Richard Twiss for such a time as this. In One Church, Many Tribes, Richard captures the problem we face today in ministering to the host people of this land and presents a powerful, well-balanced, culturally relevant means to successfully reach the First Nations people.

Raymond M. Dunton

Hopi/Din (Navajo)
Founder and Director of WINGS of Freedom,
a ministry of Freedom in Christ
La Habra, California

Richard Twiss carries in his soul Gods heart for North Americas Native peoples. He is one of those gifted individuals who sees past the illusion of traditions, past deceptions that have kept Christians divided. I pray that God will raise up thousands of disciples who, like Richard, will follow Jesus into the healing of the nations.

Francis Frangipane

Pastor, River of Life Ministries
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Richard Twiss is a modern-day apostle for the new millennium. The Native American voice is critically needed for the successful completion of the mission work of the Church. As a new generation of believers leaves behind old stereotypes, One Church, Many Tribes will be a valuable resource, directly confronting an old worldview that must yield to the overwhelming power of truth.

Rev. Mary A. Glazier

Founder and President, Windwalkers International
Anchorage, Alaska

Jesus is calling every tribe and nation to come together to worship Him in the diversity and beauty of who He made each of us to be.

Melody Green

CEO, Last Days Ministries

I heartily endorse the message of One Church, Many Tribes, because I share it fully. Wampum is a beaded belt containing symbols representing an agreement reached between two covenant partners. My wampum belt with Richard Twiss would picture two men joining hands and holding up the cross of Christ.

Rev. Adrian Jacobs

Cayuga from the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy
Director, Wesleyan Native American Ministries
Rapid City, South Dakota

Richard Twiss has a message that needs to be heard by the Church, Native Americans and the world. Its a message of inclusion and cooperation in which the Church recognizes the contributions of Native American Christians. Its a message of affirmation of Native American culture and compassion for First Nations people. Its a message of the gospel of Jesus Christ preached without compromise to all people.

Stephen B. Kellough

Chaplain of the College, Wheaton College
Wheaton, Illinois

Following the examples of Jesus and the apostle Paul, Richard Twiss seeks to present the gospel relevantly to Native Americans, a neglected people who for too long have been required to abandon their own way of life to become Christians.

Dr. Charles H. Kraft

Professor of Anthropology, School of World Mission
Fuller Theological Seminary
Pasadena, California

After reading One Church, Many Tribes, I am convinced of the rightness of the direction of Richard Twiss and his ministry, Wiconi International. In fact, I believe his approach will be absolutely essential if we are to successfully minister to the First Nations of North America. He has my heartfelt and full support.

Rev. Terry LeBlanc

Mikmaq Nation, Acadian
Manager, Aboriginal Programs, World Vision Canada

Wesleyan Native American Ministries has seen lives transfomed as a result of these biblical principles. During a seminar where Richard Twiss taught from One Church, Many Tribes, the lives of many Native American people were changed forever. We believe the biggest downfall of Christian outreach to Native people is that of condemning the Native culture. Richards teaching from Scripture that we can be Christians and Native Americans at the same time opened our eyes to lost opportunities and future options for Christs work.

Larry Marshall

General Director, Wesleyan Native American Ministries
Rapid City, South Dakota

With a perfect blend of intriguing personal stories, vignettes from history, biblical principles and cross-cultural applications, One Church, Many Tribes cries out to the Church, inviting Christians everywhere to understand and stand together with First Nations people. One cannot read this book without feeling a profound call to repentance and reconciliation. Richard Twiss pulls at your spiritual heart-strings in a way that doesnt leave you buried in guilthe motivates you to action!

F. Douglas Pennoyer

Dean of the School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University
La Mirada, California

Richard Twiss presents a much needed and creative approach to ministry in and through the Native American community. What a heart he has for the gospel, for Native Americans and for a biblical approach to accomplishing the work of the Lord!

Tom Phillips

President and CEO, International Students, Inc.

You need to read this book. I first heard of Richard Twiss many years ago, that this Sioux pastor had a heart to reach his First Nations people. Now that I have come to know Richard, I see that this is true; but I also see that he has a heart to bring reconciliation to all people groups within the Body of Christ. Look out world! This warrior is armed with knowledge and is dangerous with the love of Christ!

Grand Chief Lynda Prince

Founder and President, First Nations of North America
Richmond, British Columbia

Richard Twiss, a Lakota/Sioux living in predominantly Anglo America, reminds me of Joseph, long-ago leader of a Hebrew minority in ancient Egypt. To be sure, the Egyptians gave Joseph good cause to feel cynical about Egyptian people. But Joseph, rising above cynicism, blessed an undeserving nationa nation that had enslaved him and put him in chains without cause. Native Americans have at least as much cause for cynicism about the Anglo population today. Richard Twiss, like a modern Joseph, is calling Christian Native people to rise above cynicism and fulfill a Joseph-like destiny in this strife-ridden world. The message in this marvelous book is like a healing balm for many racial wounds inflicted over time.