Alaska Offers Many Mission Opportunities To be involved, to get wet, to get one’s hands dirty and to be a participant rather than merely an observer are the driving forces behind bungee jumping, extreme sports and the huge upsurge in interest in short-term mission trips around the world.... Read more
Conference Secretary Named Courageous Administrator At the sixth annual Sprout Convention held in Naperville, Ill., Jim Kincaid, Alaska Conference secretary, was presented the Courageous Administrator Award given annually to an administrator willing to take risks. Kincaid has a history of church pl... Read more
Pathfinder Missionaries Visit Alaska Villages Twenty Pathfinder missionaries from the Iowa-Missouri Conference descended on the isolated Alaska villages of Togiak and Bethel in June for a week-long presentation of Jesus through friendship evangelism and Vacation Bible Schools. This was the se... Read more
Dillingham Enjoys New Classroom Twenty-seven Dillingham Adventist School students were welcomed to the new school year on August 25 by three teachers and a new classroom. The 1500-square-foot addition to the school provides a new primary-grade classroom, an inside hallway to the... Read more
Alaska to Oshkosh "Pathfinders, atten-huh!” Following a summer of camporee and campouts, Alaska Pathfinders fall in for a new year of activities.First order of business for most is the induction service during which both new and continuing Pathfinders light a candl... Read more
Alaska Camp Meeting Draws Hundreds Approximately 800 people representing all but six of the 35 Adventist churches or church companies of Alaska attended South Central Camp Meeting Aug. 5–9. Attendees were drawn by the joy of Christian fellowship and the privilege of listening to st... Read more
Alaska Youth Challenge Armed with prayer and good books, eight Anchorage students and their leaders braved moose, biting dogs and rude comments in order to present Anchorage and Eagle River residents with the opportunity to purchase spiritually-based books and be prayed... Read more
Bicycle Tune-up Ministry Midtown Christian Fellowship, Anchorage’s newest Adventist church, offered free bicycle tune-ups to cyclists on Anchorage's bike trail system in June during the annual Tour de Cure Ride for Diabetes. Fifty bicycles were serviced in just eight hour... Read more
Alaska Pathfinder Camporee 2003 Packing sleeping bags and uniforms, swimwear and Bibles, bug dope, but no flashlights, 65 Pathfinders and staff from Palmer and Anchorage took the short boat ride across Flat Lake to Camp Tukuskoya near Wasilla, Alaska, for Alaska Pathfinder Campo... Read more