The Mission:

June 2014, the Carlsbad Fusion High School group traveled for 10 days to Soldotna and Anchorage Alaska. Soldotna is a town of 5000 on the Kenai Peninsula along the southern reach of Alaska. Working alongside the Alaskan Christian College, the students did a variety of labor-intensive work projects to improve both the college and local schools and non-profit agencies. The mission of the Alaska Christian College is to empower Alaska Natives through biblically-based education.

Completing the first leg of the trip, we then traveled to the 1st Covenant Church of Anchorage to put on Kids Camps over 4th of July weekend reaching out to local children in one of the older areas of the community. The statistics in Alaska are staggering - 75% of Alaskans experience domestic violence, with rape 2.5 times the national average. The violence towards children is also way above the average. The governor of Alaska says, "It really is the secret evil that is rotting us from the inside. It is something we don't talk about too much. It is done in the secrecy and privacy of homes." He said he's praying just for Alaska's rate of crimes like child sexual abuse -- which has been the highest in the nation -- to fall below the national average. He wants people to know that it's OK to talk about what's happened to them, wants them to have the courage to speak out.


Alaska 2014 Slideshow

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Prayer Requests

Here are a few prayer requests as we begin our VBS kids camps:

-Kids will get connected and return.
-Flow of the program; for the team to worked as one.
-To see God working in the small stuff; for our eyes to be open enough to see this.
-The hearts of the kids and parents. That VBS would be used to bring the unchurched to Christian community.
-Safety as we introduce Fusion style games to Alaska.
-For the Heath of the team (a few of us have come down with a cold. My voice sounds pretty close to an 80 year old chain smokers... It's kind of cool)
-Confidence for the students who will be teaching at VBS.
-That our work will have a lasting impact, long after we leave Alaska.
-To have a blast.
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