TEOTTM

( The End Of The Trail Ministries )

 

About The Bob Family:
 
The Bob Family consists of Reverend Wilma Bob her husband Tom, their children Elizabeth and her husband Phillip Fulton, William and his Wife Shannon Bob. And their grandchildren Shyleen, Christian, and Nathan.
 
The Family has been ministering for 15 years in various avenues of reconciliation, healing the Land and transferring of Authority.
 
The Family has ministered in many places and in different avenues through Dance and Drama teaching on Cultural appropriateness, and Healing of the Land in the person's designated ministry area. 

 


 
HEALING THE LAND:  Through understanding Generational Trauma (PTSD) comes the understanding of separateness and divided loyalties. The Church plays a big part  in stopping the stereotyped attitudes of Indian Country and its people.

MINISTRY:  Wilma Bob was saved in 1985 in Victoria British Columbia while watching the 700 Club.  She turned away from her life as a Native person. On a cliff over-looking the ocean, she moved to follow Christ  where ever he would lead. She returned to the reservation in Idaho, struggling to find a way to reach her family and friends.


She had a friend who encouraged her to look in her culture to find a way to glorify God.  She reluctantly prayed to God to show her in the Word, as that was the only way she would accept it. He took her to the Old Testament and told her to look at the Israelites and what they left Egypt with.  She could take from her Culture. She began to study and found, just as the Israelites, her language, dance, singing and dress.  So she set out to redo her Traditional regalia.  She did the beadwork for her husband, herself and her 4 children. Then putting them in a suitcase and in the closet to wait for God to direct.  For 2 years they sat.

The church they were attending, New Jerusalem in Spokane, had a Native lady there who was very unsure of herself and her native heritage.  The family got the idea to wear their regalia and honor her with an eagle feather. The outcome was so great the Pastor began to take them from church to church to sing and tell about their people, and the rest just fell into place. 

TRIPS ~ DRAMA:  In this process they met a Native pastor in Spokane and he asked them to help out a visiting pastor who invited them to do a drama of 'Birth to Crucifixion' that he had written.  The family danced in church for the first time. This was not their plan, but God had a plan and He was moving.  Where He moved, they followed. They have traveled to Hawaii, Germany, Uganda Africa, 3 provinces in Canada, and 11 of the states in the United States. And will continue as long as He calls we will follow.
 
DANCE:  The Dance of their people, once told to Wilma by her Mother, was that every time her foot touched the floor it was a prayer for her people. She has taken some of the old dances and made them into drama and teaching for the people who want to be educated. About Native Symbolism. And how it pertains to Our lives as Christians in the 20th Century.
 
MISSION:  To let God be God and his Will be done wherever he sends TEOTTM ministries: with the same message for everyone.

   Just as you are. God is not asking us to change who we are before we come to him, and he does not ask us to give up our ways as long as they don’t violate his word and his spirit. Jesus never left his culture and when he found something that was not appropriate he spoke into it. As in the Unknown God.

   Education: A lot of Christian people have stereotyped Native American people and our ways to be utterly heathen or pantheistic, while there are things we as people, as a whole must give up when we become Christian, native or not. We as native people do not worship the animals but the one who created them, and we do Not worship Creation but the one who created it. These things are His blessings to us as His Creation.
 
   Healing the Wounded Warriors: like some ministries have so convinced  some of our own Native people to condemn their own people, causing to offend  nations of people to his movement in their lives. Crippling ministries and defaming organizations to the Christian media.  All in the name of purging the Church. God’s word says if they are not against us.  So some of our Native people have left the church and see it as another place to be wounded. Dry bones waiting to have their lives spoken into.  
 
PRAYER & PROMISE:  To pray for needs of the people we encounter wherever and whenever. As a family. Looking for his truth and blessing to His people.  2 Chron 7:14

 

 

About the TEOTTM Singers and Dancers:
 
GOALS:  To continue dancing and singing as an education aspect and outreach to communities, schools, churches, and anywhere called to.

EDUCATION:  To bring knowledge and understanding and to combat the stereotyping of Native people as a whole, and to demonstrate individual relationship with our Creator, native spirituality and relevance in Christianity.

PRESENT:  Fundraising and preparation for the next years outreach to Africa and to the community of Coeur d’Alene.

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS:

2004:  Outreach to Uganda, Africa;  Living Hope Church, Coeur d’Alene; CANAR Coeur d’Alene Casino;  School in Lewiston for Solo Greene, Educator; Numerous Pow wows – singing;  Kalispel Sobriety Youth Camp – drama dancing.

2003:  Post Falls Library; Moses Lake community recognition of the Colville Nation;  Moses Lake High School dancing, explanation of regalia and sharing some legends;  Numerous Pow wows - singing.

2002:  Spirit Lake High School Outreach and education;  Grace Training Center outreach and education;  Indigenous Games -  Manitoba outreach to native youth to combat drugs and alcohol.

2001:  Down due to illness of Tom Bob

1999:  Hawaii Outreach to 3 of the islands to educate and present;  Alaska Outreach to The Native American Olympics to present to communities, churches and schools;  Umatilla Reservation Outreach and church services;  Harrison Centennial Days dancing and singing;  Pow wows in the local areas.

1998:  Germany Outreach of education and presentations to schools, prisons, Oktoberfest;  Deer Lodge State penitentiary prison;  Vancouver B.C. Women’s prison;  Pasadena California Christian Pow wow presentation.

1997:  Cleveland Ohio churches education;  New Jersey churches education;  Fort Worth Texas education and fundraiser.

 
1996:  Hawaii Outreach to Oahu, churches, malls, Waikiki beach, prisons - men and women's. Young peoples reformatory;  Indigenous Games – Native Olympics, Minnesota, outreach schools – to combat drugs and alcohol.
 
1995:  Vancouver Island with Maori team Outreach;  Chilliwack boys reformatory;  LaConner Wash. community;  Spokane Reservation community outreach;  Kalispel Reservation community outreach.
 
1994:  Hoopa California churches, outreach and education;  Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada, churches, schools education;  Rapid City South Dakota;  Nashville Tennessee churches education;  Alabama churches education on native spirituality. 

1993:  Super bowl 30 in Tempe Arizona Super bowl halftime.

Click HERE to return to the TEOTTM home page.