Dear Friends & Family,
News: Deadline extended to July
15th
We have received $1048
of the $1300 needed
for the trip. (as of July 1st)
Only need $252
more by July 15th.
Thank you to all who have given
so far! God bless you!
Dave and I are going on our very first missionary trip together
and we are very excited about it.
If you will remember, I went on a ladies trip to the Philippines
in 2004. The trip was very hard on me, because it was the first
time I had ever been away from Dave for that long. We both swore
that the next time there was a mission trip, we would go together.
So, we are about to embark on that
trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. We
have listened to the stories told by a very dear friend of ours
as she has been going on this particular trip for about two years
now and the results all seemed to be fabulous. There seems to
have been lots of growth on the reservation and we are really
looking forward to getting to physically participate. We believe
we can make a real difference in the lives of the native people
on the reservation.
The church that is being represented here is not our home church,
but is well established and they have been doing this for about
seven years at this reservation.
The Church name is International
Gospel Center. It is the Osborn Ministries International Headquarters. The
founders are T.L. and Daisy Osborn. Their Daughter, LaDonna Osborn
is the Presiding Bishop. The Pastor of International Gospel Center
is Pastor Chyanna Anthony. For more information on the
Church, you may go to: www.internationalgospelcenter.org
The cost of our trip is $650.00
each which includes our travel expenses from Tulsa to South Dakota
and back; Motels and 3 meals a day.
We need to have our applications
turned in by
Sunday June 14th with funds collected by June
30. Extended to July 15th.
The trip dates are from July 25-August 1.
If you would like to help us with
this trip, you may make donations via Pay Pal.
We are placing
this page on our website at daveandmillie.com.
Just click on the Paypal 'Donate"
button here:
This page will be up through
July 15th.
Or you may mail your donation
to:
Word of Life Church, (our home church) P.O. Box 1220, Sand
Springs, Oklahoma 74063 ( tax deductible).
Be sure to mark your donations (Dave and Millie
Warwick Mission Trip)
We thank you in advance for your
prayers and for your financial support.
I have included some information
about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation below. I have also included
the link for more information if you would like to learn more.
In Him,
Dave and Millie Warwick
19502 West Highland Drive, Sand Springs, Oklahoma 74063
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Oglala
Oyanke in Lakota,
also called Pine Ridge Agency) is an Oglala
Sioux Native
American reservation located
in the U.S.
state of South
Dakota. Pine Ridge was established in the southwest corner
of South Dakota on the Nebraska border and consists of 8,984.306
km² (3,468.86 sq mi) of land area, the eighth-largest
reservation in the United States, larger than Delaware and Rhode
Island combined.
Most of the land comprising the reservation lies within Shannon
County and Jackson
County, two of the poorest
counties in the U.S. In addition, there are extensive off-reservation
trust lands, mostly in adjacent Bennett
County, but also extending into adjacent Pine
Ridge, Nebraska in Sheridan
County, just south of the community of Pine
Ridge, South Dakota, the reservation's administrative center
and largest community. The 2000
census population of all these lands was 15,521. However,
a study conducted by Colorado
State University and accepted by the Federal Department
of Housing and Urban Development estimate the resident population
to be 28,787[1].
The reservation was the setting for Adrian Louis' novel "Skins" as
well as the 2002 Chris
Eyre adaptation of the same name; the 2000 book, On the
Rez, by Ian
Frazier; and the 2008 film Rez Bomb, directed by
Steven Lewis Simpson.
Economy
Although Pine Ridge is the eighth largest reservation in the
United States, it is the poorest reservation.
Unemployment on
the reservation hovers around 80% and 49% live below the Federal
poverty level.[2] Adolescent suicide is
four times the national average. Many of the families have no
electricity, telephone, running water, or sewer. Many families
use wood stoves to heat their homes. The population on Pine Ridge
has among the shortest life
expectancies of any group in the Western Hemisphere: approximately
47 years for males and in the low 50s for females. The infant
mortality rate is five times the United States national
average. Reservation population was estimated at 15,000 in
the 2000 census, but that number was raised to 28,787 by HUD,
following a University of Colorado door-to-door study.[3]
Despite the lack of formal employment opportunities on Pine Ridge,
there is a great deal of agricultural production taking place,
yet only a small percentage of the tribe directly benefits from
this. According to the USDA, in 2002 there was nearly 33 million
dollars in receipts from agricultural production on Pine Ridge,
yet less than 1/3rd of that income went to members of the tribe.[4]
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has some commercial businesses
with private operators, but most employment is provided by the
Oglala Sioux Tribe, Oglala Lakota College, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
and the Indian Health Service. The tribe operates the Prairie
Wind Casino, a Parks and Recreation Department, guided hunting,
cattle ranching and farming.[5] The
Oglala Sioux Tribe also operates the White River Visitor Center
near the Badlands National Park[6] There
is one radio station, KILI-FM in Porcupine,
and the largest independent Lakota-owned and operated weekly
print and online color newspaper, The Lakota Country Times.
In the past, the tribe attempted a moccasin factory, a meat-processing
plant, and a fishhook-snelling operation, but all of these business
ventures failed.[7] The
Prairie Wind Casino is an exception to the rule for businesses
on the reservation. The casino began in 1994 in 3 doublewide
trailers, but a new $20 million casino, hotel and restaurant
was unveiled in early 2007. The casino provides 250 jobs and
most are to tribal residents.[8] |