Overcomers Outreach Ministries Inc.
Overcomer's Outreach Ministries Inc. was founded in 1988 by Gordon and Sheila Thayer and is a non-denominational evangelical native-led ministry. Overcomers is located in the heart of the American Indian Community in South Minneapolis and has a nine-member board of directors that includes a Board of Elders. For 21 years the ministry has played a vital role in Community building in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis.
Throughout the year Overcomer's sponsors support groups, Life Recovery in Christ weekly meetings, provides affordable housing at "On Eagles Wings" apartments for Indian people in recovery and operates the First Nations Recovery Center, a licensed outpatient treatment program contracted by the Fond du Lac Ojibwe Tribe and Hennepin County. Overcomers also sponsors a Youth hockey program to Native youth and a week long summer Native Family Camp in Northern Minnesota. Since 1988 Overcomer's has provided short-term mission trips to the Mishkeegogamang First Nations Ojibwe Reserve in Northern Ontario and is planning the development of a new Ministry and Recovery Center on the Reserve.
To Proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to Native People of America and Canada while building trust with the communities we serve.
1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible authoritive Word of God
2. We believe there is one God eternally exisistant in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious atoning death, resurrection, and through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory.
4. We believe that for salvation of the lost and sinfulman, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
5. We believe unto the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; that they are either saved unto resurrection of life or lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
6. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit and whose indwelling the Christian is able to live a Godly life.
7. We believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the sovereignty of His distribution of Spiritual Gifts is for all believers who are open to them.
8. We believe in the sanctifying power of His Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life.
9. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
10. We believe in the Holy Sacraments of water baptism by immersion, and the Lord's Supper.
