God continuing to use Alaska Mission

I know it's been awhile since our mission to Alaska but God is still using our trip to minister to others.
I was able to share at our Rejoice! womens tea on Saturday about my Alaska experience and how God equipped me with His tools to do it. My first major public speaking to over 100 ladies! God gave me total peace because it was His words not my own.

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Nathan's final blog from Alaska

It has been an amazing summer up here in Alaska. Seeing the church building progress as far as it has in 10 weeks has been a humbling experience. When I see all the work that has been done by voulenteer groups ,freinds, and church members I can see God's hand in how far we got on the project. At this time on the building all of the electrical is roughed in. Sheetrock is hung in the sancuary ( thanks to an awesome church work day last Saturday ) Also sheetrock is hung in all classrooms and halls that do not have any plumbing in them. The new front doors should be here in the next week or so. All of the hot water lines for the heating system are in place. When I think about the project and how I would have liked to have been farther I have to remember all of the things we had to do to make the project work. Doing design when I got here for the permits. Fixing all the strucual problems with the building to make it strong enough for the snow load on the roof. Fixing the one thing that the electrical inspector did not like. ( I lost three days fixing it ). The learning curve for the boiler lines ( I had never done boiler lines before ). So in the end I am very pleased with were we are leaving the project. I look forward to being able to tell many of you how our summer went and how the Lord was able to use us this summer. My brother Abe is coming up for a black bear hunt for four days. We spotted 3 bears in a 10 square mile area from the air. Then he is going to help me drive the truck home 3600 miles again!

Parsonage Apartment

Here is the project Nathan and fellow Rejoicers worked on last year.

Final Work Day

Saturday August 21st was Nathan's final work day on the church building. We wish the building was further along but God called and provided what was necessary for us to be here to this point and what has been accomplished is His plan! We have been so blessed to be apart of what God is doing here in Moose Pass.

Final Week Countdown

A week of help with Rejoice!

Had an awesome week with Scott, Allyson and Lily! The guys got a lot accomplished with drywall. Allyson and I even helped screw in some sheets.
We kept them busy with hiking tackling Carter Lake Trail 7+miles, Hideout trail 3 miles, Harding Ice Fields 6 miles, and they did Byron Glacier 2 miles.
It was so nice to have someone visiting from back home and we all had fun sharing the trailer. One bedroom for the Wopatas and one for the Voights!

Thanks so much guys. We appreciate your help and fellowship!

Encouragement from Alabama

emergency room visit

Leave it to Josh to introduce us to an Alaskan hospital. Somehow he wacked his head hard and split open the skin between his eyes about 2" long while playing at the church. Nathan and I rushed him down the 45min drive to Seward to the emergency room. Wendy watched the other two boys and was kind enough to call ahead for us which is something you apparently have to do before you go in up here. I had banana bread in the oven too so Mark had to come over and get it out.

Plumbing and Permit

The whole family joined in today helping daddy pull plumbing tube all around the church for the hot water baseboard heat. We are now ready for some drywalling which is good because a crew of ten guys are coming monday-wednesday.

Some very exciting news is that the church finally got the permit from the fire marshall. we are now good to go with everything. Thanks be to God. Just in time too. Nathan needs the electrician to approve the electrical before drywalling but after the permit is issued. We can keep moving forward!

Last week of July

Many thanks to the crew from North Dakota that roughed in all the electrical! Can't believe they got it all done. The church building has wires hanging everywhere. Also a big thanks to Mark a electrician from Florida that spends his summers in Alaska and helped plan out the electrical process.

We took a weekwnd vacation down to Homer, 3 hours away, to camp a couple of days. The weather was cool and wet but we had fun and it cleared off enough to see the Pacific Ocean and mountains across the bay. We fried halibut and lingcod over the campfire for our dinner. YUMMY! There was also a Concert on the Lawn going on Saturday and Sunday at the park we camped at so we had free local music. It was actually pretty decent stuff. The entire family enjoyed hiking along the beach of Kachemack Bay at low tide and found some really cool creatures. It was so nice to relax in the midst of our busy mission project.

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done framing

The church is 100% framed. I will be starting to wire it in the morning. If all goes well I hope to be done with wiring on Friday. Amys great uncle Al Marquardt was here last Thursday and Friday to help. He was a huge blessing as my team had very little construction experience. Having a trades person here to help made a huge difference by the end of the week.

So much for a Quiet Week

God continues to work His wonders in providing funds and workers! We thought this last week would be a quiet catch up week with just Nathan working on the church. On Sunday night we received a call at 10:45pm from Mission Match wondering if we could keep a crew of 9 busy for a couple of days. Sure Nathan said, we had prayed for more workers had'nt we? So our team from Tampa arrived Monday at noon and were put to work busting the plumbing trench and building walls. It looked as if material would run out by Tuesday and since the church hasn't closed on the property sale we would also be out of funds. Nathan made the call to Scott Kirby at Mission Match to let him know we were no longer in need of assistance for the rest of the week. We were reminded of the fact that work crewa also came with funds to the projects they worked on. With the extra crew this week and the one coming next week the church would have around $3000 for materials and could we keep the crew the rest of the week, asked Scott. Well, alright then, time to go buy electrical parts to keep the work going. Off to Kenai we went to the supplier in Soldotna. Nathan was blown away by how helpful the saleperson was and yes he knew pastor Mark Milligian and had played softball with other members of the church. oh yeah, and I'll give you the contractors pricing plus we could deliver for no charge (80 miles one way). So of course you can gues by now how much the bill worked out to. Drumroll please...... $2977.26. Amazing God!

the work goes on

As much as we would love to have a work crew going it has been a blessing to have a quiet week at the church project. We all spent some time on Monday helping daddy with cleanup. Our friend Troy from MN is up and is helping Nathan frame Tuesday and Wednesday this week. We take him up to Anchorage on Thursday to fly back and get some stockup shopping done.
Electrical planning is in the works right now and should be one of the main projects when tthe next work crew comes up July 25. You can follow the church blog moosepasscommunitychurch.blogspot.com that Wendy Milligian has created for another perspective on the project.

Family Outing

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After work on Tuesday we took a little trip up to the sea town of Whittier Alaska about 60miles away. To get there if go go through the longest tunnel in North America of 13,000 ft long. The tiny town is located on the Prince William Sound surrounded by Mountains. We had an excellent supper of fresh halibut! Before going home we tackled a short (0.8 mile) hike to Byron glacier to play in the snow. It was really cool- literally and figuratively! Timmy thought it was great fun to throw rocks in the icy waters from the melting snowfields and glaciers up in the mountains.
The halfway point of being gone this summer comes on Thursday for the boys and I. We left six weeks ago and our plane brings us home August 26. Nathan will be driving home a week or two after us with his brother Abe. The time is going fast and it's beautiful and awesome up here but we have been a little homesick.

Future Kitchen

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Week Four

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What a week! The crew from Alabama was awesome. Nathan was pretty tired from keeping 16-18 guys busy all week but they had such willing hearts and worked well together. We have been so blessed to meet so many men and women of God with servants hearts to do whatever needs to be done these past weeks here in Moose Pass. God is going to bring revival here and free people from their bondages of addiction and any other sin holding them back.

The church building is really taking shape with all the framing that was completed. The rooms are taking shape and everyone is getting excited. The space is badly needed since there were 46 souls worshipping in the tiny church on Sunday.

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Framing week

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Work Crew 2

Church building project is up and running for the week. This team is from Alabama and most of them are from a large church of 2200 people. Nathan is keeping super busy with 16 guys hauling busted concrete floor( a section had sunken over time and needed to be replaced) and framing. A few of them went out fishing at the Russian River tonight.
Being a large group 3 are staying in the church next to us, some are in a camper and the rest are in the apartment of the Pastor Milligians house that Nathan and the Rejoice team worked on last year.

The boys had fun today with Jacob and Andrew Milligian at our house today. Wendy had some time to herself to get caught up at home. The 5 boys and I did some school reading, listened to Adventures in Oddessy and went to the playground. The growing boys devoured 2 bags of popcorn and would have ate a 3rd if I would of had one more.

Celebrating the 4th

We had an awesome time with our friends, Mike and Cayla Boettcher and their 3 little kids this weekend. They took us Anchorage and the volcanoes across the water but unfortunatly it was cool and rainy, again. We rode 4 miles up the rocky shore dodging many large boulders until we found a good spot to make a beach fire. Hot dogs and smores were our late lunch. After lunch we climbed up to the little house attached to a rock and use the outhouse. The kids had tons of fun digging in the rocks and finding really interesting ones. Back at the house for supper we fried Alaskan Halibut! Yum!
Sunday we drove back from Kenai (almost 2 hours) to lead our second night of FPU class and meet the work crew for the week. They don't do fireworks up here- no darkness to do it in.

God's Miracles take 10

God keeps surprising us with so many things. Yesterday (Monday) Nathan happened to hear that the Methodist Church in town had a work crew in town for their church and they were just about finished with their work. Nathan contacted them and they were excited of the oppurtunity for more work before they leave on Thursday. One of the things happening next on the church is welding more support rods to the future attic. Guess what one of Nathan's new crew has done for 46 years? Welding of course! So that was the project for today.
On Wednesday the crew of 10 will be working hard. We were also asked by Scott Kirby the work team coordinator for projects here in Alaska, if we could possibly use the full team of 16 people that is scheduled to be here next week. The original plan was to have just 10 of the team of Alabamians here at our projects and the other 6 elsewhere. Nathan said send them on over! We are praying 2-4 of the team members have construction experience to help Nathan divide the crew into effective units! Framing will be the main project.
We are now waiting to receive the electrical plan so we can take all the necessary paperwork to the fire marshall in Anchorage to apply for the permit. Keep praying for that process.

engineer approval

We now have stamped plans from the engineer for the church project. Next stop fire marshall. The first work crew was top notch. Hard working and willing to do anything. We dug all the footings and poured them on Friday. We also built a yard barn for the church to use for storage. Busy busy week. Accomplished much for the kingdom.
Nathan

Special Blessing

The work crew this week blessed us by including us on the Resurrection Bay boat cruise with dinner! We saw sea lions, jellyfish, puffins and mountain goats. It was so beautiful. Caleb got a tad seasick but a 1/2 hour after Dramamine took care of that. Josh absolutely loved it. They had a park ranger on the tour pointing out the animal and things and a junior ranger program for the kids so the boys have now been deputized. Thanks guys!
Wendy Milligian, the pastors wife, graciously took care of timothy for us so we could enjoy the cruise with Caleb and Josh. Timothy hasn't been away from me for a few weeks but he was a very good boy and took a 3 hour nap for her and had fun playing with 2 year old Anna until we got back at 10:45pm to pick him up.

Week One!

Can't believe we've been here a week already. God has done so much already it seems like we have been here much longer than that though. The church building is progressing forward with concrete footing work being done and tons of brush clearing away from the building. The engineer was very happy with Nathan's drawings but we are still waiting for his final stamp so the plans can get to the fire marshall and we can get the building permit. The engineer is doing all of his work for free for the church which is a huge blessing because an earlier candidate for engineer wanted thousands of dollars to do his planning. God worked His wonder again!
The work crew that is here from all over the lower 48 is busy at work with Nathan in the building. They have been digging holes for footings. One of the women in the group was so excited about being up here she called her husband who is a bridge builder in Pennsylvania to come up and help. He has been a huge help to Nathan.
Vbs for the kids has been blessed by the leading of the women from the group as the kids make a journey through the bible. Please pray that the kids will impacted by the word of God and the community will come to know the truth.

Summer Address

Our address for the summer is
PO Box 21
Moose Pass, AK. 99631

We are settled in to our place now and the boys have made a few new friends. I met a few people from the church yesterday. Moose Pass is a town of about 200 or so. It's hard to tell population since the towns are spread out along the highway and there are probably many people that live up in the mountains. Tourism is the main source of income for many residents. Prices for things are about double the lower 48. We walked around town a couple of nights ago and there is a lodge/resteraunt, 2 small churches, a tiny school, little post office and a general store add a dozen or so houses and that is the town! A float plane touring service flies out of the lake bordering town. The train from Anchourage to Seward (29 miles south) comes through town but doesn't stop.

moose pass miracle

Hi,
I've hijacked Amy's phone to bring you an update on what's been happening on the project. Yesterday I went with pastor Mark to the neighboring house to the north of the old church building. Apparently the owner died a few days ago and his family was here wrapping up his affairs. They told us we could take anything that might be of use to us on the church project. He was a contractor in the area. As the saying we like to use at Rejoice goes -where God guides God provides. To my great joy there was a Bosch brute jackhammer with 4 bits and so much equipment we had to take about 6 pickup loads.Then this morning they said we could have all the lumber that was around too. That took about 7 loads to haul all total it is over $10,000 worth of stuff that will all get used on the new Church. The very sad note in all of this is that the man who died was not a christian. All of his family I met are Christians -1 is a pastor in Washington state. They where extremely sad about their brother but where overjoyed that his stuff will be put to good use on the new building.

Nathan

We are both so blown away by what God is doing! On our trip up here we listened to a cd message from a church service 4 years ago when Grahm Sellars visited our church and talked about tithing. We were reminded about the passage in Malachai where God tells the Jewish people to test His provision by their faithfulness in tithing and He would open the floodgates of heaven. God certainly has done that here- preparing it even before we arrived at precisly His right timing. We are so blessed to be apart of His plan here in Moose Pass.

Settling In

Yesterday proved to be successful in getting everything unpacked and organized here at the house. The trailer we are living is very adequte with 2 bedrooms- our bedroom is the room between the house and church and was used as they nursery which they moved to a different classroom for the summer. We have our own laundry and well stocked kitchen, a living room with bookshelves and a little entryway for all the boots and jackets. The only highway in the area is right out our front door but the traffic really is not to bad beyond that is a couple of houses then the snowcapped mountains!
The weather has and is supposed to be 40s and rainy this week and the cloud cover has been low so we can't fully take in the beauty of the area yet.
Monday night we had supper at Pastor Milligians house and the boys and I met the family. Wendy and I are going to get along great. She drinks her coffee black like me! Anna is 3 and had a great time showing Timmy her toys and Caleb and Josh hit it off with Jacob who is 5 1/2. Unfortunatly Andrew who is almost 8 was sick so the poor guy was in bed. Immediatly after dinner Nathan was ready to get going on the project so he and Mark dove into the planning. God is doing awesome things.
Tuesday night we had our fist houseguests- the Boetcher family flew down from Soldotna for supper. They are 3 hours away by car but only 15 min by plane. They are our missionary friends that started us down the whole serving in alaska thing. Their three little cutie pies had fun with our boys. Caleba and josh taught them musical chairs.
We are adapting pretty well to alaska time. We are 3 hours behind minnesota and the light 24 hours a day really throws you off. Like last night we finally got all the boys in bed at 10pm but it looks like it is 8pm out and back home it would be 1am!
Today we are going down to Seward- a little bigger town about a 1/2 hour to the south to to get groceries and nathan wants to talk to the lumber yard down there.

day eleven

Beautiful morning here in Anchorage. Our time is now three hours behind MN so I am writing this at 9am. Nathan is getting an oil change on the truck while I have some laundry going and the kids are watching PbS. We don't have to be out of our hotel room until noon so we are taking advantage of that. You can see the mountains from our window. Its absolutely beautiful with the mountains, lakes, glaciers and plants.
When Nathan gets back I get to do a little shopping then on to Moose Pass. We are so excited to get there and begin working! Can't wait to see what God is going to do.
Thank you so much for your prayers. God granted us the safety, patience and peace that we needed!

Day nine

this was probably our most eventful day. We started out swimming in the Hot Spring Pool after tenting for the 3rd night in a row. Somehow we managed to sleep in until 8am despite all the light. We finally got going about 10:30. Just a few miles down the road we saw our first grizzly on the side of the road! They look cute from the safety of the truck.
After driving for miles and miles on rough bumpy roads we thought we had better check on the receiver hitch cargo carrier. Sure enough the weld had cracked a third of the way through. We had to try to fit the 6 tubs of supplies into the truck and ditch the carrier. Fortunatly we could combine some bins since we have been eating the food up. Two of our old sleeping bags had to go. Now the truck is completely packed including the cab for the last 600-700 miles. We will be so glad to unload and unfold our bodies.

Camping in Canada

We finally had the oppurtunity to tent for the night once we got on the Alaska Highway in Dawson City, British Columbia. Our first night Wednesday, was at a beautiful provincial park at milepost 49. We woke to temperatures of 38 degrees brrrrr. We were up and out of there by 6:45am!
Thursday night we planned to camp at milepost 477 but the campground was full so we had to drive to mile 615 for the next best campground. It was a really hard long day but God provided the energy and daylight (it is light just about tound the clock up here) and we finally got setup and to bed by 10:30pm. We had abreakfast fire at 5am to warmup so light out we couldn't sleep in.
Friday night we camped at Tahkini Hot Springs in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Swam in the hot springs pool the next morning before we left. Our first bath in acouple of days!
Saturday night we got the tent put up in between the rain in Alaska. Rained all night but we stayed dry.
Overall we enjoyed the camping and the boys were a big help and timmy adapted so well to the crazy schedule. It was a little nerve racking being in a tent in bear country! God. Is our protector thanks for your prayers.

thanks for the prayers!

The boys continue to travel very well. Timothy has only had 2 short crying episodes this first half of the trip. He does cringe everytime we approach the truck. We know it is your prayers that are providing the peace. We did lose one of timmys shoes somewhere in Montana.
Yesterday we toured Fort Edmonton Park. A fort from the 1800s, a villiage from 1900 and a town from 1920. A train took us from one end of the park then you walk back through the rest. It was really cool and the boys enjoyed stretching their legs.

Canada

We've made it into Canada with no problems and will be in th
e country for the next 4 days or so. We had hoped to camp last night but the threat of rain nixed that plan. We found a campground that has little tiny cabins with a queen bed, bunk bed and table for a reasonable price. Just as we got settled and started supper a storm started and there was pea sozed hail. So glad we were not in a tent.
Our plan today is to get up to Edmonton (4 hours away) do a little sightseeing then get to our hotel and get laundry done and grocery shopping for the next half of our trip.
God bless your day!

America the Beautiful

Our whirlwind trip through 5 national parks is now complete.
The badland were incredible with the stark contrast of rock formations and short grass prairie. Josh has declared it his favorite stop.
Mount Rushmore was majestic and the state flag avenue is really cool. Caleb's favorite stop so far. There is no picnic grounds there so we had to tailgate for our lunch.
Devils Tower is such an awesome sign of Gods wonderful creation and creativity. It's been good to explain to the boys why the information says millions and billions of years and give them the creation truth instead.
That completed our Saturday sight seeing and we drove off into the night logging almost 800 miles. We did finally stop at 2:30 am to sleep at a motel cabin complete with kitchen. Nathan cooked us breakfast Sunday am then we headed out for round two.

Our first stop Sunday was the Grand Tetons and we saw bison, elk, pronghorn and deer in tje park. It was raining and the clouds were low so the mountains were'nt visible. After a short hike by Lake Jenny we continued up to Yellowstone.
The old faithful area was really neat with all the hot springs bubbling out of the ground. We stood in the rain for a half hour before the geyser finally went off. It was awesome and aweful at the same time.
The highlight of yellowsttone was the herds of bison at the sides of the road and our picnic supper of hamburger helper.

Because of the rain we opted not to camp (it was also only 45 degrees out) so we are now in BOzeman MT ready to start the day and enter Canada.

Thank you so much for your prayers. The boys are travelling very well with only minor crying and whining. Timothy has developed a stiffened body approach to getting back into his seat though.

Day two

Time to immerse the boys in some great american icons. We will be driving through the Badlands, stopping at Wall Drug, veiwing Mount Rushmore and either drive up to Devils Tower or through Custer State Park. It's supposed to be rainy and cooler so we'LL have to be flexible. The fun part will be tonight when we drive straight through to the Grand Tetons/Yellowstone.

The boys have been excellent travelers so far and we can make good time since the speed limit is 75mph.

On the road!

After months of preperation, God-Seeking and generous gifts and prayers from you all we are on the road. Hard to imagine being gone all summer from our family, friends and house. God certainly has orchestrated all the events and planning leading up to this day. We are so excited to be a part of what God is doing in Alaska and can't wait to get there.

Keep praying for the building project as we still need the engineer to approve the work planned to be completed and for the permits to be issued quickly. Nathan has been in contact with the engineer out of Juneau so whatever needs to be done to get the project rolling will be accomplished quickly. We will keep you updated.

Our goal today is to get halfway across South Dakota. Mount rushmore tomorrow.

Love you all and covet your prayers-

The voight family

Packing

We have been slowly packing a few things here and there for a few weeks now but its time to get serious. Nathan has loaded all his tools so I know how much space there is left for everything else. Thankfully his tools have only taken up a third of the truck bed. Still it will be tight to fit in 3 months worth of living! Especially when you start thinking about packing stuff for Timothy like 84 days x 4 diapers a day = 336 diapers. Our goal is to be all loaded Wednesday night so we can spend Thursday wrapping up yard work and house cleaning.

Alaska Housing

The final details on the Alaska end are coming together! We will be staying in the trailer attached to the current church. A lady from the church that has been living there has graciously moved out for the summer so we can move in. It has two bedrooms (one is used for church stuff on Sunday) and laundry. It will be an adventure for us to live in 900sq ft with 3 boys! There is even rumoured to be a spot for a garden?!

God continues to bless us with unexpected gifts from His store house and we can say we are just a smidgen away from being fully funded. He told me last summer that He had already provided the money to do this mission and He has.

cleaning house

Our goal this week is to clean the house- including the basement. Since its been raining we don't have an excuse not to do it. After a 4 hour effort by the whole family
yesterday the basement is done! On to other areas today. It's hard to imagine being away all
Summer but God has called us to serve and we will obey- convience and comfort are not important. Following our God is.

3 weeks

Travel Help

Since we will be in the truck for 72 hours or so- it would be greatly appreciated if you could loan us DVDs, books on CD, travel games or any sort of other activites for kids!

One month away

Wow! Just one month until we leave. I've been doing alot of packing of the camping gear, some food stuff and clothes. Having to think in terms of taking 3 months of clothes and supplies is a little more challanging. Hopefully there will be enough room in the truck.
God is so faithful and we are so excited to see what He is doing and going to do in Alaska. Continue to pray that the construction project will fall into place as work crews are formed, funds are provided for materials and lives will be changed for the glory of His kingdom.
We are still praying and looking out for a family that might be in need of a house for a short time this summer.

April Update

Wow~ another month has flown by. We are getting down to the last weeks before we leave. Packing has begun and we are wondering how we will get it all in.
God has blown us away with His provision. We are just about fully funded! Praise God.
We will be leading a Financial Peace University while we are up there- please pray for us and the church up there for what He is going to do!

March Update

Can't believe March is almost over! We are less then 10 weeks away from our departure date. Planning and preperations will be kicking into high gear now.
God is continuing to amaze us with the generosity of people and amazing unexpected provision of the funds we need to make this mission possible. Our need is $17,000 and we are at about $12,000- more than 2/3rds of the way there!
We are continuing to pray for someone who might need a house for a couple months this summer. We are also looking for a topper for the truck.
On the Alaska end they are in need of a structural engineer to certify that the existing structure is safe to use as a church building. They received a very high costing bid from someone to do this so the prayer is that they would be able to find someone to do it at a reasonable cost.

February Update

God continues to amaze us with the generosity of His people. Our current amount raised is $7645! We are starting to plan our route of travel- driving to Alaska is estimated at 58-68 hours. With three busy boys that should be real interesting. At least Nathan's brother Abe is planning to come up and drive back with him so I can fly home with the boys.
Several family members are planning to come up and help/visit. If anyone else is interested in coming up let us know!

More Miracles!

God is providing quickly and we are on our way in preparing for Alaska. We have over $7000 raised for our mission already!!!! Praise God for providing more abundantly than we could ask or think. Nathan and I are amazed at how quickly God is preparing the way.
Caleb has the oppurtunity in school to study Alaska as his state of choice. It will be so much fun to learn about this great state before we go. Keep praying for someone to stay in our house and we also need a topper and step bars for our truck.

God the Provider!

Thanks to 2 generous givers we have $1700 towards our Mission! Praise GOd! He is confirming our call to Alaska this summer in so many ways. We will be presenting our Mission to Rejoice! church this Sunday during worship. The envelopes are being printed and stuffed with our Support letter -finally. Pray for a renter for our house this summer June to mid August.

Alaska Planning Progress

Nathan spoke with the pastor up in Alaska his weekend and everything is starting to line up for our mission this summer! There is 2 work crews already being scheduled to help with the building. It looks like we will need to be there by June 19th at the latest. We are planning to leave the last day of school which is June 4th which should give us plenty of time to do a little sightseeing and get settled in before the first work crew arrives.
The Church in Moose Pass will be providing our housing- pray that everything would fall in to place for that. The congregation also has $7000 of the $30,000 they need for materials. Pray that God will continue to provide while revealing Himself and strenghthening their faith!
Our Support letters are back from the printer and are waiting to be addressed and sent out.

We are putting the finishing touches on our Alaska Support letter. Look for it in your mailbox soon.

HAPPY 2010 Everyone! What an exciting new year for us. Join us as we journey towards a mission project in Moose PAss Alaska, hope to begin our adotion process and other adventures God will put in our path. Not to mention the task of raising three busy boys. Blessings from our family to yours in this new year!