Picture 16 (1 photo), by amy voight

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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.

MPChurch, by amy voight

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