Joseph & Martha Manzo

Hello from Medicen Song Ministry.  My wife Martha Gregg Manzo is Yupik Alaskan Eskimo. I am Joseph Manzo from the Chiricahua Apache Tribe of New Mexico Chihene NDE…we are a Traditional Native American worship Ministry. We have a great love for Creator God and his Son, Jesus, and we reach our people and other Indigenous People who Creator placed in different parts of the world.  

Since the beginning of Creation, everyone has worshipped Him differently and with their own language and style of music. We share our walk with God and use the drum and dance as a prayer of great reverence to Him. We believe our regalia and songs are pleasing to God, and He delights in our worship. He has sent us to worship on many reservations and with many Tribes. It has been amazing to see Him heal people, change their lives, and reconcile them.

We have been invited to worship and speak at churches and parks. We perform weddings and share our culture with children at the school where I work. Martha and I have been at pow wows as dancers and / or vendors, giving out Sacred Road New Testaments, tracts, and other information.

There is much generational pain because of the historical wars between Native Nations and early colonists in America. This is one of the main difficulties for Natives to believe in Jesus Christ, but we have had breakthroughs when we share our testimony of Jesus’ love for all people. Native peoples just need to believe in Him and use their culture to worship Him.

This is one of our favorite scriptures:

“It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.”. (John 4:23-24, The Message)