Tikkun Olam Team Member Highlight - Abigail Ponce-Curl

My name is Abigail and I’m a junior in high school. About five years ago my family felt God calling us to leave our home and serve Him elsewhere. Not knowing for sure where He wanted us to go, we started looking into different mission organizations and He, in His sovereignty, closed all other doors and opened the door to join Tikkun Olam. 

What have you learned about the community and its people?

I can’t make a generalization about this community as a whole or its people since we’re all different just like any other part of this world. However, I have noticed that spiritually this community seems to have more hopelessness than others. 

Which ways are you involved and serving in the community?

My involvement in the community includes being part of a prayer meeting that intercedes for the community. I also have been able to start Kind Kitchen (a cooking class designed to be a more lasting solution to food insecurity here in Wolf Point by teaching and empowering children to be independent in the kitchen. It is targeted for kids who don’t consistently have an adult preparing meals for them.) At our local church, I work with the young kids in Children’s church. I feel very blessed to be part of each of these activities and the people involved in them. 

What are your goals while here in Wolf Point?

I would love to find and invest in individuals who are passionate about God and helping kids who could continue Kind Kitchen and Children’s Church. Ultimately though, I desire that I walk a life completely consumed by God so that as I go about my daily life I will be a witness through all my words and actions about my redeeming, loving and Almighty God. 

What is your hope and prayer for the Wolf Point community and the Fort Peck Reservation as a whole?

My prayer for Wolf Point and this reservation as a whole is that there would be unity amongst believers. That we would be rooted and grounded in God's love so that we may know Him more and support one another. I desire that our love would reflect to the community His love and who He truly is. 

Ephesians 3: 16-19 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

 2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

I also pray that those who have a misconception about Christianity would be witnessed to. May their view and understanding of Christianity shift from thinking its a religion (that has been used to justify discrimination, forced relocation, epidemics, push personal agendas, and other forms of harm) to a relationship with Yahweh who loves each and every one of us.