Rehoboth Christian School

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.

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.

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?

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.)