Ken Crawford Alaska Conference president By Ken Crawford Do You Have a Spirit of Adventure? Are you open to living in a native culture in the Arctic, or a remote town in Southeast Alaska?Do you have a heart of service for helping hurting young people? Are you self-motivated and do you long to make a real difference? Arctic villages have ... Read more Camp Meeting Offers Training to Fight Depression "One of the best camp meetings ever. I was so blessed!" "I am so excited to see the potential of all the laypeople of Alaska getting involved in this program. Now! Let's get to work!" These were some of the comments following Alaska's Camp Meeting... Read more Staddon Assumes Treasury Duties In January 2007, Sharon Staddon became the new treasurer for the Alaska Conference administrative team.Staddon, a certified public accountant in Nebraska, has owned her own accounting firm since 2004. She has served as a financial officer for ADRA... Read more New Executive Secretary Joins Alaska's Administrative Team Alaska welcomes Edward Dunn as the new Alaska Conference executive secretary. Dunn and his wife Cheryl are moving to Alaska from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, where he was pastor of the Kelowna and Wildwood churches. He has been a pastor for ... Read more The Life That Counts Watching the offering plate come my direction, I pondered which bill to drop in the plate. I had three $1 bills and a twenty. I always found this part of the service so uncomfortable. I mean, how was this money used anyway? How did I know for sure... Read more Come Let Us Worship Together Mary quietly moves about her kitchen making breakfast. She is feeling every bit of her 73 years this Sabbath morning. Perhaps it’s the cold blustery chilling wind outside, or the temperature that is hovering around minus 20 degrees this January mo... Read more Jail Ministry Yields Baptism Florie Jewel thought she was only coming to Alaska for one summer of adventure, but that was almost 11 years ago. She fell in love with bush Alaska—the warm-hearted people, the vast land and the unique simplicity of living on the edge of nowhere.T... Read more The Eagle A mountaineer sits on an outcropping of rock on the peak of one of the mountains in the majestic Chugiak range in Alaska. It had been an arduous climb. Hour after hour of back-wrenching climbing, ever climbing, while muscles protest, bones resist,... Read more Gone Fishing The brooding mind of Peter matches the darkness as he flings the net into the shadowy waters of the night. In his mind self-condemnation is nudged on by the accusing voices of demons. “You have denied Jesus. Sure you have repented, but this time y... Read more To Be a Light as the Lights Go Out It is early morning, and I am sitting at the kitchen table in the parsonage in Savoonga. This little Eskimo village of 300 lies at the east end of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea about 35 miles off the coast of Siberia.It is still many hours... Read more Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3
Do You Have a Spirit of Adventure? Are you open to living in a native culture in the Arctic, or a remote town in Southeast Alaska?Do you have a heart of service for helping hurting young people? Are you self-motivated and do you long to make a real difference? Arctic villages have ... Read more
Camp Meeting Offers Training to Fight Depression "One of the best camp meetings ever. I was so blessed!" "I am so excited to see the potential of all the laypeople of Alaska getting involved in this program. Now! Let's get to work!" These were some of the comments following Alaska's Camp Meeting... Read more
Staddon Assumes Treasury Duties In January 2007, Sharon Staddon became the new treasurer for the Alaska Conference administrative team.Staddon, a certified public accountant in Nebraska, has owned her own accounting firm since 2004. She has served as a financial officer for ADRA... Read more
New Executive Secretary Joins Alaska's Administrative Team Alaska welcomes Edward Dunn as the new Alaska Conference executive secretary. Dunn and his wife Cheryl are moving to Alaska from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, where he was pastor of the Kelowna and Wildwood churches. He has been a pastor for ... Read more
The Life That Counts Watching the offering plate come my direction, I pondered which bill to drop in the plate. I had three $1 bills and a twenty. I always found this part of the service so uncomfortable. I mean, how was this money used anyway? How did I know for sure... Read more
Come Let Us Worship Together Mary quietly moves about her kitchen making breakfast. She is feeling every bit of her 73 years this Sabbath morning. Perhaps it’s the cold blustery chilling wind outside, or the temperature that is hovering around minus 20 degrees this January mo... Read more
Jail Ministry Yields Baptism Florie Jewel thought she was only coming to Alaska for one summer of adventure, but that was almost 11 years ago. She fell in love with bush Alaska—the warm-hearted people, the vast land and the unique simplicity of living on the edge of nowhere.T... Read more
The Eagle A mountaineer sits on an outcropping of rock on the peak of one of the mountains in the majestic Chugiak range in Alaska. It had been an arduous climb. Hour after hour of back-wrenching climbing, ever climbing, while muscles protest, bones resist,... Read more
Gone Fishing The brooding mind of Peter matches the darkness as he flings the net into the shadowy waters of the night. In his mind self-condemnation is nudged on by the accusing voices of demons. “You have denied Jesus. Sure you have repented, but this time y... Read more
To Be a Light as the Lights Go Out It is early morning, and I am sitting at the kitchen table in the parsonage in Savoonga. This little Eskimo village of 300 lies at the east end of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea about 35 miles off the coast of Siberia.It is still many hours... Read more
