Natives Follow Jesus

Daron Butler
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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 community on your spiritual journey as you follow Jesus. Why this podcast? I find that those who follow Jesus as a Native American or First Nations disciple span a wide spectrum of locations. Some are from the USA and others are from CANADA. You may be someone who is from the reservation (or reserve) or from the city. You might be full-blooded or part-blooded. You may have started following Jesus while immersed in your native culture or you found Jesus yet are curious about your native background. You may be someone who speaks your native language fluently or one who can’t say any words in the tongue of your ancestors. You may have many questions unanswered. Daron invites you to join him on your spiritual quest to follow Jesus. He wants to connect with you, offer a prayer for you, and to suggest ways for you to keep following Jesus as a Native person. So what are you waiting for? Engage with him on Instagram @nativesfollowjesus Please tell your friends that the show is available to listen to for free in any app that supports podcasts. Remember, "Wherever you are, God sees you. You are NOT alone! Keep following Jesus!"

  1. 5D AGO

    Episode 70: The Quiet Voices – Honoring Native Women Who Lead Through Prayer, Art, and Service

    SHOW NOTES: Not all leaders stand at the microphone. In Native communities, some of the most powerful spiritual leadership flows quietly—through prayerful presence, creative expression, and acts of service. This episode honors Native women who reflect biblical models of active faith, leading not through volume or position, but through obedience, humility, and love for God the Creator-of-All-Things and for their families and their community. 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 @nativesfollowjesusHear the story of Evangeline and Randy Jackson on Tribal Trails here.Read Rebekah Hillis story on Sounds Academy webpage here.Check out part of Coreen Esplin's journey to Phoenix Seminary from her story here on a Phoenix Seminary reel.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 as we seek to follow Jesus better everyday.

    34 min

  2. FEB 9

    Episode 69 Faith Passed On – Honoring Mothers, Daughters, and Faith-keepers in Native Communities

    SHOW NOTES: Faith in Native communities has often been carried quietly—through stories, prayers, daily example, and resilient love. This episode honors the women who have kept faith alive across generations and invites listeners to reflect on how Native believers in Jesus can intentionally pass faith on to children, youth, and future generations in ways that are relational, culturally rooted, and Christ-centered. 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.Check out the work of Jessica Crealis who shared her research on Mary Konkapot and Mary Doxtator here. Jessica highlights the story of how these Indigenous women embraced Jesus and lived for Christ as best as they could.Please peruse the added information from a series of articles about Mary Konkapot and what happened to the next generation here. Thanks to the Knox County (OH) online newspaper, Knox Pages, for offering a special series on Mary Konkapot and her family. Michal Sherfy and Jessica Smith co-wrote the articles. Hardship endured. Faith tested. Strong Native Women striving to follow Jesus amid arduous circumstances.Join the movement on Instagram @nativesfollowjesusSend 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 when you can hear about the Quiet Prophets who lead through prayer, art, and service.

    41 min

  3. FEB 2

    Episode 68— Women of Strength and Spirit – Courageous Faith in Native and Biblical Story

    SHOW NOTES: This episode of Natives Follow Jesus honors Native women whose lives reflect courage, wisdom, and spiritual strength. Drawing from Proverbs 31:25 and Indigenous experience, we explore how Native and biblical models of womanhood reveal God’s heart for dignity, faith, and hope. 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 @nativesfollowjesusSend me an email at nativefollowsjesus@gmail.com to connect with me or to ask me a question. Thanks.Hear Pastor Craig Smith who offers a sermon on the life and spiritual legacy of Alfreda Claus here. I appreciate Craig, Ojibew, and LaDonna, Navajo, who share their walk with Jesus on The Indigenous Faith Podcast. Listen to the testimony of the late Tom Claus, Mohawk, founder of CHIEF, evangelist, and patriarch of the faith here. Thanks to withoutreservation.org for collecting stories of faith from Native American and First Nations followers of Jesus. Give a review of this podcast on Podchaser.com Join us for the next episode to discover the generational faith transmission that mothers, daughters, aunties, and grandmas can have as keepers of the faith in Jesus Christ. Invite a friend to follow, subscribe, and listen.

    35 min

  4. JAN 30

    Episode 67: From Mission Field to Mission Force – Native Believers Sent by the Spirit

    SHOW NOTES: For generations, Native communities have been spoken about as “mission fields.” But Scripture tells a deeper story. Jesus never calls His followers a project—He calls them witnesses. This episode invites Native believers to reclaim their God-given calling as a Spirit-filled people sent to bless the world. Rooted in Acts 1:7–8, we explore how Indigenous followers of Jesus are uniquely equipped to carry the gospel across cultures, nations, and generations. 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 @nativesfollowjesusSend 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 when you can find out how to balance your faith and your career.

    24 min

  5. JAN 20

    Walking Forward Together – Building a Hopeful Vision for Native Christian Communities

    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 @nativesfollowjesusHear 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.

    33 min

  6. JAN 12

    Episode 65 Restoring Broken Circles – Healing Divisions in Communities and Churches

    SHOW NOTES: Division, Misunderstanding, Hurt Feelings have fractured families, churches, and Native communities—often leaving wounds that run deep across generations. This episode invites listeners into a hopeful, biblical vision of reconciliation. Rooted in Indigenous understandings of the circle and Paul’s call to the ministry of reconciliation, we explore how Jesus restores broken relationships and calls us to walk the good road together again. 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 @nativesfollowjesusHear more about Native InterVarsity Native InterVarsity is "mindful of some complicated contexts. There is, for instance, the fact that a lot of Christian mission has the weight of colonialism.' But (InterVarsity) wants students to see that both God and the global church invite them to be witnesses to the gospel of Jesus “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8) Read more of their story here.Kristen Lilya, Ojibwe, shares her story of how Deer Camp helped her connect with the generations in her family. Read more of personal account here.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 Native Christian communities in 2026 and beyond.

    38 min

  7. JAN 5

    Episode 64 The Journey of Renewal – Revival, Restoration, and Hope in Native Christian Communities

    SHOW NOTES: Across Native communities, God is quietly and powerfully at work—restoring hearts, renewing faith, and awakening hope. Revival doesn’t always look loud or dramatic; often it begins in quiet prayer circles, in family kitchens, at youth gatherings, and with humble obedience. This episode invites listeners to recognize the God the Holy Spirit’s movement, celebrate stories of renewal, and step into God’s restoring work together. 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 @nativesfollowjesusHear more about Milton Shirleson, Navajo, from Tohatchi, NM. Have you ever wondered if anyone really loved you? Have you ever felt abandoned? These were issues that Milt wrestled with because his father walked out. His wounded heart became angry. Eventually, Milt’s anger almost cost him his own family. But then a miracle happened. Listen to his story here.Watch the story of Katherine Womax, from the Adams Lake reserve. She felt like didn't belong after her family became more dysfunctional.Then, God became the Father she did not have. Watch her story here.Craig Smith, Ojibwe, and his wife LaDonna, Navajo, and a relative experieced a horrific car crash on I-25 North near Santa Fe, NM. Craig flatlined in the ER and God brought restoration. Watch more of his testimony of God's miracle in his life here.Send me an email at nativefollowsjesus@gmail.com Thanks.Give a review of this podcast on Podchaser.com Join us for the next episode when you can find out how to balance your faith and your career.

    37 min

  8. 12/29/2025

    EPISODE 63 From Hopelessness to Hope – Enter the New Year with Hope

    SHOW NOTES: The New Year often brings mixed emotions for Native and First Nation communities—hope, grief, resilience, fatigue, and longing. This episode invites Indigenous believers to step into the New Year not with shallow optimism, but with deep, Jesus-centered hope rooted in God’s faithfulness, healing, and promise of renewal. 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 @nativesfollowjesusRead about the stats of MMIP, the Missing Murdered Indigenous Peoples from 2024 here. Despite the horrific numbers, you can hope in the LORD.For an insight into the people who are MMIP, peruse the landing page of the MMIW Bureau of Indian Affairs webpage here. Remember the names and photos are current missing and/or murder individuals.Here are the ways you can step into hope as you move into the new year: Offer practical ways to step into hope: Naming grief before God, Setting intentions instead of resolutions, Praying with the land, Reconnecting with community, Choosing one spiritual practice to develop or to enhance for the year, and Trusting Jesus with what you cannot carry alone.Here is one way that I found to hear from God by reading the Bible with the help of The Bible Recap. Find how to start the bible reading plan here. I have found this resource helpful for my walk with God.Give a review of this podcast on Podchaser.com Join us for the next episode when you can learn how to begin the journey of renewal when you need restoration and hope. Thanks for listening!

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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 community on your spiritual journey as you follow Jesus. Why this podcast? I find that those who follow Jesus as a Native American or First Nations disciple span a wide spectrum of locations. Some are from the USA and others are from CANADA. You may be someone who is from the reservation (or reserve) or from the city. You might be full-blooded or part-blooded. You may have started following Jesus while immersed in your native culture or you found Jesus yet are curious about your native background. You may be someone who speaks your native language fluently or one who can’t say any words in the tongue of your ancestors. You may have many questions unanswered. Daron invites you to join him on your spiritual quest to follow Jesus. He wants to connect with you, offer a prayer for you, and to suggest ways for you to keep following Jesus as a Native person. So what are you waiting for? Engage with him on Instagram @nativesfollowjesus Please tell your friends that the show is available to listen to for free in any app that supports podcasts. Remember, "Wherever you are, God sees you. You are NOT alone! Keep following Jesus!"

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  • Creator
    Daron Butler
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    71
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Daron Butler
  • Show Website
    Natives Follow Jesus