Yo-ani-ah Ceremony
What It’s For Yo-ani-ah means “carry it away” in Navajo. This is a very old rite for healing deep emotional wounds — trauma from violence, abuse, war, assault, or any injury that leaves someone unable to sleep, haunted by nightmares, or otherwise broken by what happened to them. It’s invitation-only, so the person being healed […]
Administration for the Sick and Afflicted
The Simplest Healing Ceremony This is the most common form of healing worship — a culturally sensitive anointing and prayer offered for injuries, sickness, and physical illness, carried out with real personal love and empathy by whoever conducts it. James 5:14-16 is cited as its scriptural foundation: calling the elders to pray and anoint with […]
Adoption Ceremony
Overview This ceremony works to build genuine emotional bonds in both directions between adoptive parents and their new children — parents toward children, and children toward parents — through a shared act of purification. Unlike a birth, where parents already know their child from the start, adoption begins with real unknowns on both sides, and […]
Fertility Ceremony
Purpose This worship centers on prayer for couples who want children but, for whatever reason, haven’t been able to conceive. Its effectiveness rests heavily on everyone present being genuinely comfortable offering reproval, since there’s usually some underlying reason the Lord hasn’t yet given the couple children — the goal is physical healing accomplished through repentance. […]
Single Ceremony
Purpose This ceremony helps a single person seek out the one God intends for them to marry, and works toward two goals at once: it announces to all the Eerkodeshiy a request to move feelings within someone else, creating an opening for the two to eventually cross paths, and it helps the single person themselves […]
Coming of Age Ceremony
Overview Roughly comparable to a Bar or Bat Mitzvah in the timing of life it marks, though nothing like one in its actual content or use of the elements of righteousness. Boys reach this passage around age fourteen; girls, at their first cycle. Afterward, the young person can be painted in ceremonies and take on […]
Weaning Ceremony (Baby Blessing)
The Meaning of the Day Once a child is old enough to be weaned, the family holds this ceremony on a day called Gamal — a Hebrew word (Strong’s #1850) carrying the sense of ripening, of weaning, and of treating someone well, all at once. What Happens Though simple in form, this ceremony has a […]
Birthing Ceremony
Overview This is a blessing ceremony for a newborn, unfolding across five days. For the first four, the mother stays home with the child, and each day’s rite must be completely finished before the sun comes up — the point being that everyone present is acknowledging what Motsah the Lamb is doing for this baby […]
Safe Delivery Ceremony
Purpose This ceremony exists to help expectant parents seek out what the Lord wants and how He sees the new life on its way into the world — leaning on the languages of repentance and glory to get there. No two pregnancies call for the same kind of parenting; each one is its own fresh […]