Mission Statement: Native American Indigenous Church (N.A.I.C.)
NAME: The name of this Organization shall be the Native American Indigenous Church INC. (N.A.I.C.)
STATEMENT OF FAITH: Native American Indigenous Church I.N.C. (N.A.I.C.), an Inter-Tribal, Christian/Christ-centered discipline, and Convocation of the Medicine Men and Medicine Women of the Native American Indigenous Church I.N.C. (N.A.I.C.) (An Integrated Auxiliary of the Priory of Saving Grace #110 of the Sacred Medical Order of The Church of Hope (SMOCH/ SMOKH)).
We are an Indigenous, traditional, and Native American CHRISTIAN organization.
Declaration of Good Conscience and Practice, Constitution, and Establishment of N.A.I.C.
We are a restoration of the Pre-Colonial and Pre-Conquest, pre-genocide/ periods of enslavement, diaspora, Nomadic Indigenous People who inhabited parts of the Caribean including Puerto Rico (American Territory), Central America, North and South America, the Pacific Islands, Japan, Korea, China, Filipinnes, Thailand, Burma, India, and Tibet anciently, and which left evidence of its historical occupation of these Traditional Territories and indigenous peoples in writings, records and oral traditions left and religiously guarded so that they might be brought into the light in a day of futurity, so that the ancient, sacred ways of Native, Indigenous, Natural and Traditional healing and sacred religious and religious therapeutic (medicine) practices might be restored, beginning in this State of Florida, in the United States of America, and spreading there from, to as far as the wind may carry the message, and for as long as the trees grow, and the rivers flow.
Preamble
We believe in the Creator (Great Spirit- Honored Chief- Chosen One- “Creator Sets Free,” i.e., Jesus Christ) and that the Creator made all men and women who have lived, do now live, and who will yet live, as free and equal beings. We recognize the inherent, ancestral, sovereign rights granted to all people by the Creator, human conscience, international law, and legal constructs of reciprocity, mutuality, and comity, which cannot be diminished or extinguished. We believe that we derive from and that we may become like the Native and Traditional Indigenous people who lived in this land anciently and that, through their literal descendants, we claim the right to form an Indigenous Traditional Organization based upon their teachings which have been passed down to us through the traditions, customs, ceremonies, records which have been guarded through the ages by their Descendants, our family, and our ancestors whether by blood or by adoption (Hunka), we acknowledge the sacred texts of all indigenous traditional religions, oral and religious traditions regarding the principles of religious expression, the role of nature, the part of two legged’s and natural medicine.
Primary NAIC Religious Expressions and Practices
We believe in the rights of Mother Earth. N.A.I.C. Inc. was established to provide our community with service, education, spiritual fellowship, Sacred Medicine, and healing. To protect, defend, promote, exercise and practice the beliefs, practices and traditional religion of Christian (Christ-Centered “Cross Way”) and Mother Earth based Native American spiritual traditions. To profess, believe, and practice the customs, ceremony, sacred practices, Indigenous and Traditional Native and Natural Medicine Ways, personally and in the offering of Ministry, Holistic Health Services, and the Medicine of Nature.
N.A.I.C. is a Florida State incorporated Not-for-profit, 508(c)(1)(a) compliant FBO/ Church and Integrated Auxiliary of the under the Holy Apostolic Orthodox Church of the East Chaldean-Syrian Rite: A Diocese of the Sacred Medical Order of the Church of Hope.
We believe that the primary duty of our religious expression is the belief, profession, expression, education, and practice of Holistic Medicine, Humanitarian Aid Services, Social Work, and therapies based on, or cogent with, our sincerely held religion and religious beliefs. Practicing Holistic Medicine, Aid Services, missions, and therapies directly express Indigenous Traditional Native (aboriginal) and Christian religious beliefs.
We affirm and support traditional Biblical and Christian scripturally and spiritually based health care principles. Our mission is to restore divine wisdom and the knowledge of all nature to health care and life. We affirm to do this through the traditional ceremony, sacraments, and scripturally (Bible/ Cross Way/ First Nations Version: Indigenous Translation of the New Testament), spiritually valid science based on natural law to assess, improve, and restore good physical, mental, and spiritual health. The focus of N.A.I.C. is not on disease and treatment of disease as a purely physical concept but on analyzing the true genesis of poor health and hygiene and utilizing the natural law, including physical, mental, and spiritual insights for health from sacred text and scripture to bring about healing. We believe and teach that the true genesis of all disease is separation from the knowledge of the Creator and ignorance of following established sacred and spiritual laws and principles. While respecting and utilizing valid science scripturally, N.A.I.C. has its basis in the Creator’s law, the natural law, and not science.
The primary active mission or missionary activity of the N.A.I.C. is to preserve, protect, promote, believe in, teach, counsel, and educate N.A.I.C. members in the old-traditional ways of relying on the Creator and indigenous practices of traditional holistic natural medicine, traditional holistic, Indigenous ceremony and healing medicine (U.N.- U.D.H.R., W.H.O. Defined), Humanitarian Aid Mission Services Missions and Social Work, Native American, and Bible-based Holistic nutrition and nutritional health.
We affirm the practice of Native American, Indigenous Traditional Medicine, and Christian-Christ-Centered Religious Therapeutics (Chirothesia) in all its wealth and variety, both historical and modern, to B.E. the practice of Native American Religion as defined by the N.A.I.C.
We further affirm that our sincere belief, practice, and expression of True Medicine (Indigenous Traditional Medicine as defined by N.A.I.C.) is all N.A.I.C. members’ authentic and valid ministry and sacred duty. You are invited to join our Saving Grace Ministry of Traditional Medicine and Healing.
