Two People Join Homer Church Lianna Blair first encountered Adventism upon visiting a member-owned builders’ store and talking with summer employee/winter evangelist Don Barnt. The Homer members welcomed her with open arms and Brad Traxler, Kenai-Homer pastor, arranged Bible ... Read more
Native Evangelistic Gathering Miracles, fishes, souls! These are some of the amazing results of a month-long Native evangelistic gathering at Northside Church in Anchorage in March. As many as 65 non-Adventist Natives, as well as Adventist Natives and non-Natives, attended the... Read more
Palmer Church Sign Brings Visibility After much shopping, planning, designing and anticipation, the Palmer Church powered up its newest evangelistic tool—a large marquee-style church sign. Neil Biloff, Palmer Church pastor, explained, “The sign has multiple purposes, including provid... Read more
Cold, Clean Fun With warm hearts, heavy coats, and insulated boots, a group of nine students and three sponsors bucked the spring break migration of scores of Adventist students on mission trips to warmer climates to work in frigid Fairbanks, Alaska. Admittedly, ... Read more
Winter Camp Meetings Tour Western Alaska From Anchorage to Gambell, from Barrow to Dillingham, this year’s itinerary took a variety of camp meeting speakers through snow, wind, rain, fog, and sunshine as the Alaska mobile camp meeting made its way through the wild weather of March.Don Sc... Read more
Shoebox Ministry in Palmer One of Billy Graham’s sons, Franklin, started the original Samaritan’s Purse/Operation Christmas Child on the east coast many years ago. In his program, shoeboxes, filled with items children need, were collected at a site back East, then transport... Read more
Eagle River Valley Church Dedication Members and friends of the Eagle River Valley Church gathered on Sabbath, Feb. 22, to dedicate their church with programs glorifying God who has guided in the growth of this church family. The celebration of dedication is the result of years of la... Read more
Alaska’s Pastors Take Wing to Anchorage Alaska’s seventeen multi-national pastors converged on Anchorage to attend the annual Pastors’ Conference on Jan. 5. Guest presenters, Treavor O’Reggio from the Andrews University theology department, and Jon Dybdahl, Walla Walla College president... Read more
Be Kind to Me, I Gave Blood Today Two Anchorage Adventist churches hosted blood drives on Sabbath mornings in November and January. Forty units were collected by the Blood Bank of Alaska.Some Hillside–O’Malley Church members were surprised to see the Mobile Blood Bank bus in the c... Read more
