Gallup, NM
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Fractal Balloon
The intense hot air balloon with a fractal design kept changing colors as the pilot turned on and off the flames in the basket.
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Inflating at Night
The “Evening Glow” event at the Red Rocks balloon rally opened with giant fans used to start inflating the balloons.
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High Above Rehoboth
The first weekend in December is the Red Rocks Balloon Rally in Gallup, NM. Friday morning we awoke to see hot air balloons floating over the school’s campus!
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Pot Trophies
Rehoboth hosts athletic tournaments against other schools from Navajo country and across New Mexico. In keeping with the local aesthetic, the winners receive a painted pot instead of a standard wood and metal trophy.
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Code Talkers
Navajo “code talkers” helped the U.S. defeat Japan in WWII by using their language for coded communications. Thirty of the 400 total code talkers were Rehoboth students, and others, like James Nahkai Jr., were parents or grandparents of Rehoboth students.
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Elevator
Rehoboth’s multi-cultural and multi-lingual student body is 3/4 Native American. Where else would you find signage that identifies everything in English, Navajo, Spanish, Zuni, and Braille?
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Rehoboth
Rehoboth Christian School is a K-12 private school in the sagebrush near Gallup, New Mexico. Elaine and I spent a month volunteering there in Nov.-Dec. 2025, helping students and staff in a variety of ways. (Those are two small observatories in the foreground for night sky viewing.)
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