History
Seven years ago God called me out of the Creek Stomp Dance into His ministry. He did not ask me to forget my knowledge of tradition, but to use it sharing His message in a way Native people can relate to.
As I went, I felt that I needed to be better equipped with knowledge, so I began to attend Mount Olive School of Biblical Studies in Plant City, Florida, where my family and I were living at the time. We should never stop learning and growing in Christ, so I continued to study through New Life Bible Institute located in Temple Terrace, Florida.
Over the past years, God has had me to travel many different trails. There is only one road that leads to Him, but along the way He will have us travel different paths to teach us, and for us to teach others along the way. But these paths will never stray from the main road. I have always enjoyed music, so along the way God uses the talent He has given me. As a solo gospel singer, I have traveled from church to church sharing His Gospel.
I have also toured with the Continentals on their mid-west tour in 1998. I was also a member of the Country Gospel Music Guild.My real call was, and still is, with Native Ministries and God has had me to travel and take part in many things over the years. From the World Gathering of Indigenous Christians in Rapid City, South Dakota, to the call to Honor Him conferences in Tampa, Florida, to Fall Creek Indian Assembly in Davis, Oklahoma.
Our main call is to spread the message through our witness and through teaching. Our witness is our action. This was and still is being carried out through building projects, food and clothes give aways.I have worked on the Brighton Seminole reservation at the First Indian Baptist church in Brighton, Florida. This church needed new handicap rails and a new fellowship hall.
Here I also helped with the youth choir and different plays that were broadcast over Seminole Television. On the Big Cypress reservation there were different needs. Here I worked to share the gospel with Back Yard Bible studies.
The Tampa reservation had some of the same needs as Big Cypress, but here we called our Bible studies "Chickee Church" because we held them under the recreation chickee. I also enjoyed helping with their Pow-wows that honored Ms. Ruby Tiger for her birthdays after she reached over 100 years old, by cooking for the sponsors and the dancers.
Many have said that the Powwows are wrong, that we should not go, but Jesus said to go into the hedges and by-ways. Where better to reach the lost than where the lost are.. My family set up our cook tent either in 1800 era or modern at different powwows, Seminole war re-enactments and rendezvous. Here we would share the work one on one or through Sunday church services.In 2001 my family that consists of my wife, son, and two daughters, and of course me, moved from
Plant City, Florida to Hiawassee, Georgia. God had His purpose in us moving even though He did not share it with me at the time. He began to open doors for me when I joined the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship, singing at the 10 Commandment rallies, and holding weekly Bible study classes at Heaven Bound Christian book store.
He also moved Alan Flowers here whom I had known for some time. We worked together with others to start the Grand Ol' Gospel Showcase, a country gospel concert held twice every month at the Hiawassee Cowboy Church. God also continued to open doors for me working on the reservations through Indian Ministries of North America with Johnny Hughes. With this ministry I continued to do what I had done in Florida. In November of 2005, I, along with my son, traveled to Hammon, Oklahoma to work on a building on the Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation. There are several other projects that are planned in the near future. Above all I believe that God's plan is for me to teach, this is my future.
John Davis
