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History of First Nations Restoration Ministries

First Nations Restoration Ministries was originally founded in 1995 under the name of First Nations Counseling Ministries. A recent name change was initiated after FNRM’s leadership realized that as a prayer based organization our focus is on seeing God heal, restore, and transform people’s lives and the spiritual climate of their communities. 

From the beginning FNRM was designed to specifically address the unique needs of North America's Indigenous populations. Over time we’ve become aware that these needs require more therapeutic and innovative approaches to evangelism. Through our twenty-nine plus years of experience in the field, we have found that most Indigenous people who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, continually struggle to maintain their personal spiritual gains. Some backslide and fall away, while many others are continually treading spiritual water to keep from going under. 

Through years of research we believe deep psychological wounds inflicted by government policy initiatives during early federal-tribal history lie at the root of current spiritual struggles engulfing Indigenous communities. The intergenerational impact of this original wounding still psychologically reverberates in the hearts and minds of most Native American populations.  

Consequently, we believe the psychological wake created by past traumatic wounding has to be appropriately addressed for the Native believer to breakthrough into deeper levels of salvation experience. Without considering, understanding, and dismantling these psychological barriers few Indigenous Christians will achieve lasting Holy Spirit-led victory for their lives.  

Recognizing the great need for healing, wholeness, and spiritual health, FNRM's ministers use prayer counseling and other therapeutic approaches to reach out to Native individuals and their communities. A key strategy of FNRM is to equip and mobilize healing teams to help establish prayer counseling ministry initiatives through, and in conjunction with, local First Nations churches and ministries.  

FNRM views itself as an equipping type ministry whose training institute will include an in-house treatment center and facilities to conduct community research projects. FNRM's ultimate purpose is to facilitate an environment where Spirit-inspired personal and community transformation can occur.

FNRM's ministry services include; personal counseling by licensed professional counselors, paraprofessional counselor training, family enrichment seminars, equipping and mobilizing prophetic prayer teams, leadership training, consultation, and development, healing conferences, social ministry development, discipleship training, church-ministry organization and program development, and an array of other training workshops. 

FNRM has Native-specific discipleship training to equip individuals with the understanding and tools needed to overcome the spiritually paralyzing influence of beliefs and behavior linked to intergenerational trauma.

FNRM works with the church-at-large to facilitate outreach, reconciliation, and healing initiatives to Native populations. A large part of this effort includes the First Nations Healing Coalition, which is composed of several Native led ministries and churches working together to see the healing and restoration of Indigenous people and their communities.

FNRM is a trans-denominational organization that collaborates and networks with both Native and non-Native groups, ministries and churches across the United States and Canada. 

FNRM also provides cross-cultural training for non-native ministry and missionary teams called to serve First Nations families and their communities.

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