Rehoboth Christian School

The next to last day of our month-long stay at Rehoboth Christian School in Gallup, NM, we were blessed with a magnificent sunset that filled the horizon with color. Here the rocks are an intense red, and sometimes so is the sky!

Elaine and I walked into this canyon about a half mile from Rehoboth School for a quick afternoon hike on a lovely mid-December day. Beauty is all around us in this part of New Mexico!

This red rock canyon on the edge of Rehoboth Christian School’s campus offers an easy hike into the beauty of the landscape around Gallup, NM.

The Spirituality & Psychology class at Rehoboth Christian School fills up gift bags with treats that they will give to the dispatchers at the local Gallup 911 center. It’s a way to show appreciation for their services while learning about careers that help serve their community.

Rehoboth students can chop fire wood in the mornings before class. Then they help deliver pickup truck-loads of wood to families on the Navajo Reservation that rely on a wood stove for heat during the winter. They’ve already made 50 deliveries this fall!

Students were painting and making mosaics with tissue paper the day I visited with four Rehoboth yearbook students to get photos for the 2026 school yearbook.

Orange sandy paths wander through the sagebrush next to the Rehoboth Christian School campus. Student sneakers left interesting overlapping patterns that reminded me of Indian petroglyphs on the rocks around New Mexico. w

I took the high school art students for a walk around campus to remind them of the beauty of the place. They also enjoyed the chance to get outside on a sunny day.

Steve, the Rehoboth high school art teacher, guides students as they create paintings, ceramics and digital art.

For the first time in recent years, the Rehoboth boys varsity team won the tournament that the school hosted in early December. Instead of wood or metal trophies, the team and the top players received painted pots to honor them.

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.)