Shaddow Cross

 I went out to serve as a missionary in Dine' Bikeyah beginning summer of 2008, and in January 2009, a group of people from the board I was then with (in addition to Shaddow Cross) , had a "talk" with me.   That basically entailed explaining to me why I, who had served in subculture ministry for 7 years, should abandon all trappings of my Gothness, and hopefully all subculture trappings. I sadly believed that to minister out where I was called, that had to be true, due to cultural taboos.  I was broken, but I did my best to hide myself looking more desert and steampunk than Goth.   For five years I lived like this, until my mother's death, and my Gothness came out in fullness.  Only to be put away partially again by the end of 2015.   But from 2015 through 2017, I was in-depth introduced to the subcultures on the reservations.  Metalheads, emos, a few goths, punks, skaters.  They were all there, just I hadn't seen them before....

    (Originally shared October 28th, 2006 in Charlotte, NC at the Haven X Goth Gathering. Shared again in March, 2007 in Wichita. KS at Christian Chapel Foursquare) 1) Who and Why? I Timothy 4:12  "Let no man despise your youth; but be thou an example of the believers: in word, in deeds, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity." Evil:   Communists, Nazis, Terrorists  Good:   David Brainerd, David Livingston, Jim Eliot,  Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, Patrick of Ireland, Brigid of Kildare. A.  Main Text :   Joshua 1:1-11   After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, " Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. From the wilderness and this Leban...