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What this is about!
Greetings from Pine Ridge South Dakota. This blog is more of a journal for me. Who am I? I am Pastor Dan. I am a pastor on the Pine Ridge Reservation where I am the director of the Reconciliation Center. (PineridgeReconciliationcenter.org) I minister to and with the Lakota People of the Oglala Tribe. I am…
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Volume
It is amazing how much stuff we go through each week. Feeding 60+ twice a day. Feeding 65 plus kids twice a week with food packs handed out to each kid. Coffee all day and into the evening. Laundry 7 days a week. Many many showers each day. We are visited often by UPS, FedEx…
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A bad good day?
Yesterday was a good day. The weather was nice. We provided Pizza to the shelter guests for lunch. Which was well received and appreciated. We had no issues to deal with at the shelter. We actually had a light load until the pizza arrived. With the pizza, we did not have to cook so, we…
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Life Skills.
There are certain skills in life that you may think most people know how to do. But I am finding this to not be true. Most skills in life are taught. If you have no one to teach you, you will struggle. I say this because I find myself in a bind with some of…
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Logistics
I spent 17 years in warehouse management and logistics. I sold bar coding systems. I saw good warehouses and bad. I was assured at one place that they sent things through so quickly that first in first out was not an issue. Only to go to the warehouse to see 3 pallets of product that…
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High and Low
I will start with the comment that I dislike the terms “High church” and “Low church”. It is church. Usually, it is used to determine how formal the worship service is each week. With High church being formal, robes, stoles, processing in and out. Both styles have their place. Both are worship. And it truly…
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WWJD or should it be DIKJWETKWJWD?
For a while, braclets and other items were hot in the Christian world embracing the WWJD. I thought of this the other day when was unable or unwilling to help someone. They like to try and guilt me into helping. I often hear words like “I thought you were a Pastor?” Or “What would Jesus…
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J-term
My first experience at the center was 5 years ago. I came for a seminary course on Native Americans for my cross cultural requirement for seminary. J-term is the catch all expression for courses in January. I would like to say I took the course because I was drawn to the topic. Truthfully, I chose…
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Tired?
A pastor friend of mine once posted that you should not come home from work tired. While I understand what he is saying I disagree, at least a little. Sometimes work does wear you out. Even when you love what you are doing. Now I am not saying you should come home drained, yet sometimes…
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SNOW!
We got just a little bit of snow. Over 30″ with drifts as tall as me. I am 6′-4″. The town is shut down. The only things open are the gas station, the grocery store, and the center. We have been incredibly busy. Working with a partner we are operating the homeless shelter in town.…
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Love Them while you can.
This is a hard post to write. I may not even post it. We had our cat die tonight. One of the dogs was playing with her a little too roughly. I found her wet and stressed. She died in my arms. She died in my arms. The same arms that I held her in…
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