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....

Dear Friends, Family, and Supporters, Summer's heat has come back to the forests of Eastern Tennessee, along with smoke from the wildfires up north in Canada.  We have been blessed to get a beautiful raised bed garden in place for this summer. which is caring for our needs until we return to Dine' be Keyah to serve among the Native tribes, especially the Dine' ( Navajo ), the Cowboys, and reach out to the lost among the subcultures.  As of the start of the Year, Rob and Morria were appointed Missions Team Leaders at Circle C Cowboy Church, which is leading to awesome opportunities to continue partnering with Broken Arrow Bible Ranch, and other ministries which Circle C is partnered with.  Morria is still serving on the worship team, and Rob is an "Arena Cowboy" on the setup/take-down side of things.  Shaddow Cross: Desert Refuge Outpost is fully set up now in our temp HQ with both Rob and Morria having offices to focus on their branches of ministry, Rob - Cowboy C...

The Outposts, like Desert Refuge Outpost , are to be safe havens and ministry centers scattered around the Southwest, North America, and even the World, for the sake of aiding those in the subcultures, the Underground, and those ministering to and with them.   These Outposts will serve as locations where Subculture Missionaries can gather for training, pack/receive Antioch Bags for Ministry, get training in sustainable foraging/gardening/wildsteading, and also provide food into the community by partnering with Farmers Markets and Food Pantries. Each location will be run by a host family, Desert Refuge Outpost for example is operated by myself, Lady Morria, and my husband Robby.  There will be others nearby who either stay on location, or at nearby homes, who work with the Outpost, and who serve in the local communities reaching out to the lost and dying in the shadowlands.  They will be near local subculture centers, but enough in the country to be safe places of re...

Often I get asked, why do I work in the Shadowlands?   Why do I give my time, my effort, and my heart to reaching those at the edge? Why do I pour my time into the outcasts, subcultures, and the underground? Why do I, one who has served as a missionary among the Dine' (Navajo), now work in the shadows? Because I have a duel calling? Because even when I try not to, I am? Because my Lord asked me to, Because I don't go, who will? This is my purpose, my calling, my place. This is where I serve. Yes, I serve locally, but even then it is among America's oldest subculture, the Cowboys, alongside my husband.   Yes, I sing, praises to the Lord, and am beginning to find my own Southern Gothic style... Yes, I am still a missionary, going back on trips to Dine' Bikeyah, and here in the shadowlands. This is my place in the thick of things... This is where I serve... Where are you being asked to serve? In Umbra Terras, Lady Morria

Underground Wire Version 2: Issue 2                                                        Summer '23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Underground Wire exists to share awareness throughout the Christian Subculture & Underground Communities of what is happening throughout the Shadowlands.  This is a Wire about the communities for the community! "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the Good News."  ~  Isaiah 52:7 & Romans 10:15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 What does Faith in the subcultures really mean... For those who have spent many years in the subcultures and have come out of it to Christianity....the very thought of Christians being within the subcultures seems nearly impossible due to the spiritual darkness and bondage within the Shadowlands.  There ARE many things out there tied into the subcultures that MUST be broken with to serve Christ.  Our lives must line up with the Word, or we are but in bondage ourselves, to a Christianity that does not glorify the Lord, but the flesh instead. " Rebellion ,  Necromancy, Idolitry (anything placed above God) ,  Lust ,  Sexual Perversions,  Sex  (outside of   marriage),    Murder,  Cutting,  Suicide  (attempts),  Drugs,  Drinking,  Gluttony,  Self- Harm , Injustice, Oppression, Victimisation, Abuse,  Wrath,  Hate, and anything other things to which God says 'No'..." All these MUST be br...

I t has been nearly ten years since the ministry was live full-time... For me (Morria) , it has been nigh five years; five years of searching, wandering, and uncertainty...  Many pathways, many callings, and many pullings to walk many pathways.   So many people hurting, so many places in need.   Yet still in the shadowlands, the underground, of my youth does my heart seek refuge... In the shadow of my God, underneath the stone high cross... T o here a mission was given, my love of olden times, the subcultures in the shadowlands, the rewilding of the land... My deep belief in Jesus my Creator and Savior. Five times hath death knocked upon my door... Thrice by Car: once in rain, once on ice, once by a flood. Once by Spider and Medicine: Brown Reculus Spider and Lidocaine reaction. Once by Mystery Illness of whince I still struggle, though no longer bedridden. In truth, I must be about the tasks given, teaching what I know, for why else was I spared these many...