For several years CDC used the property in NM belonging to Berean Mission, which had formerly been a boarding school for Navajo children. The Berean missionaries had been instrumental in starting CDC, and so it was a great blessing when this property was made available for a women’s ministry.

The first fall session for Native women began in the fall of 1997. Local Christian Native ladies also helped in teaching, supervising the dormitory, and doing crafts.

In the year 2000 the property was turned over to Dzilth Naodithlii Bible Church, and CDC continued to cooperate with this Native church. Because of a staff shortage, however, the women’s ministry was later put on hold in NM.

In December, 2008 Jean Sherwood and her husband Brian joined the CDC staff in Cortez, Colorado, and Jean became the new women’s ministry director. Soon it was decided that CDC would have a women’s recovery program on the Cortez campus during the summer months of 2009, to alternate with the two men’s programs this year. This summer’s new women’s session begins on May 4 and runs till August 1.

On the Need Help? page of this website, an application can be printed and then faxed to 970-564-9328. Current plans are to have another women’s recovery program in the summer of 2010, beginning May 3. Prayer is much appreciated for this outreach.