While we were on our way to this project, an incident took place which brought into even clearer focus the forces which we were coming against.  As we were driving along, a slow moving truck crested a hill directly in front of Don and Lynn. It began to weave and came so close to them that they could see that the driver's eyes weren't even open.  

Our little convey of 6 vehicles moved to the right shoulder as he slowly weaved his way past us. He stopped about 100 yards beyond where our last vehicle was parked. The front of his truck was on the shoulder and the rear of his truck was sticking out into the opposite lane of traffic. 

Several of the YWAM staff members and one of our team members ran over to the truck to see if he was all right. Needless to say, he was blind drunk.  He got out of his truck and was at least not belligerent, although he said he didn't know where his keys were (they were in his right rear pocket).  

All during this time the team had gathered in a circle and was praying in the spirit.  Lynn and Don went over to talk to him. At that moment his brother drove by and stopped.  Lynn invited the intoxicated driver to the mission and asked that he please allow his brother to drive him home.  After a few tense moments the man got into his brother's car.  We drove his truck to a spot designated by the man's brother and the incident was over. 

When we returned to our vehicles we thanked the Lord that He had allowed this to happen so that we could be there to minister the Love of Christ to that man and also prevent innocent people from being killed or injured in another alcohol related traffic accident. 
 
When we arrived at the complex, part of the team began setting up the puppet stage and getting all the props organized for our VBS.  
The remainder of the team took some coloring books and went door to door to let the folks know that we were going to be having a vacation Bible school behind one of the houses in about 45 minutes.  We left books for each of the kids that were in the house and invited them all to come to see the puppets. Megan did a fantastic job acting as MC for the show. 
 
 

                                                                                                 Here Bob is showing the kids the 'Special Bible' he had which 
                                                                    went from blank pages to full color images.
 
After the puppets and skits, we had a time to fellowship with the kids.  We did face painting, made balloon animals and passed out small prizes. As was true when we were at Wheatlands, several of the children accepted Jesus as their Savior.  

Just before we began the VBS several young teenage boys came by the front of the house where we were setting up. Lynn invited them to come around back where the presentation was going to be. They looked back there and said 'Nah, to many whiteies.'  However, as the gospel was preached through the puppets and the presence of the Lord kept increasing during the praise and dramas these same boys came back and spent the better part of 1/2 hour, talking with several of the team members. Seeds of love were planted that day. 
 

That night we again set out to the location of a high place that Lynn wanted us to pray over.  This time it was Shiprock itself, one of the most sacred spots to the traditional Navajo religion. 

Although clearly visible from such places as Morgan Lake, the rock is located about 50 miles from the Mission.  We traveled about 30 miles on State Highway, about 17 or so on a 2 lane blacktop and about 3 miles on what can only be described as a rut. This brought us squarely to the base of the rock. (This picture was taken from the base of Shiprock looking south. As you can see, there is not much of anything which can be called a road.  The 2 lane black top is near the top of the picture and runs east-west at this point.)

Any doubt about our being able to make it all the way to the base was erased when we began to turn off the 2 lane black top. As we did so, back to the southeast we could see another 1/4 rainbow!!! That made 3 partial rainbows in 3 days. Each one appearing when we were in the midst of spiritual warfare! Needless to say, we had no hesitancy about continuing on to the base of the rock. Lynn brought a Christian Navajo lady with her who was kind enough to share the legends which those of her people who have not accepted Christ still believe about this area. She gave us the information we needed so that our prayers were informed. As such, we came directly against the strongholds which had bound that particular area. After she finished sharing we took out our instruments of warfare (guitars and bongo drums) and began to worship and praise the Most High God as we had done numerous times since we arrived at Many Waters.