{"podcast":{"title":"Natives Follow Jesus","slug":"natives-follow-jesus-7072948","podcast_index_feed_id":7072948,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/natives-following-jesus/","website_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/natives-following-Jesus/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/5889f3d3-7ddf-49da-a82c-2f1c4b75067d/xDxopqK9-m1XUDq8IFBJ46oy.jpeg","author":"Daron Butler","episode_count":84,"summary":"The Natives Follow Jesus podcast recognizes that following Jesus as Native American / First Nation disciples is getting more and more challenging. You don’t have to follow Jesus all alone. Join me every week where you can find positive and encouraging content as you seek to follow Jesus as best as you can. Daron Butler is the host of this weekly show where episodes drop every Monday morning at 6am. Daron is a full-blooded Navajo. His Navajo family are followers of Jesus spanning three generations. He has served as a pastor in the local church and serves as Hospice Chaplain in his community presently. He has over 30 years experience in serving many people groups. Episode segments will highlight native cultural insights, devotions from the Bible, prayer for you as you follow Jesus among your own people and amid the cultures of the world, and spotlighting indigenous followers of Jesus who are seeking to be a mission force. There will be bonus episodes where Daron will interview other Natives who are following Jesus. You will gain perspective from their personal journey and you will find inspiration to keep following Jesus. Daron intends to offer you insight, inspiration, and communit…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natives-follow-jesus-7072948"},"episode":{"title":"Walking Forward Together – Building a Hopeful Vision for Native Christian Communities","slug":"walking-forward-together-building-a-hopeful-vision-for-native-christian-communities","published_at":"2026-01-20T22:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natives-follow-jesus-7072948/walking-forward-together-building-a-hopeful-vision-for-native-christian-communities","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natives-follow-jesus-7072948","url":"https://natives-following-jesus.captivate.fm/episode/walking-forward-together-building-a-hopeful-vision-for-native-christian-communities","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d6ddf5f2-c3e3-4c04-869b-da8bd4b44a8e.mp3","summary":"SHOW NOTES: Hope for Native communities is not found in returning to the past or waiting for dramatic spiritual moments—it is found in walking forward together with Jesus, grounded in faith, hailed in story, mindful of the land, and building relationships with God and with humans. This episode invites you, listeners to imagine a future shaped by healing, wisdom, and faithful presence, where Native believers move ahead together on the good road as we follow Jesus together as best as we can one day at a time. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Sign up for monthly newsletter. Click sign up link, scroll down to email form, complete form, respond to email prompt, and get my newsletter. Join the movement on Instagram @nativesfollowjesus Hear more about Billy & Breanna Tallas. They served the LORD in northern Spain at a camp called L'Arcada this past summer. I will post photos on my feed. Read more of their story here . The Tallas family is starting a church in Many Farms, AZ. Jason French, of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee in Oklahoma, served the LORD in Nepal as an adjunct teacher for the Nepal Bible Institute. Read more of his testimony here . Jason is a worship leader and is serving as pastor in a new church starting in Broken Arrow, OK. Send me an email at nativefollowsjesus@gmail.com to connect with me or to ask me a question. Thanks. Give a review of this podcast on Podchaser.com Join us for the next episode where you can build a hopeful vision for your walk with Jesus together with other followers of Jesus here at Natives Follow Jesus.","meta_description":"SHOW NOTES: Hope for Native communities is not found in returning to the past or waiting for dramatic spiritual moments—it is found in walking forward tog…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2009,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/natives-follow-jesus-7072948/episodes/walking-forward-together-building-a-hopeful-vision-for-native-christian-communities/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natives-follow-jesus-7072948/walking-forward-together-building-a-hopeful-vision-for-native-christian-communities.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}