Among Alaska’s 225 native villages, in spite of state and federal infrastructure upgrades, many are still without public water and sewer systems. You can imagine the challenges of trying to follow public health measures and recommended hygiene practices in this context... Click to continue reading Visit Donate Page Visit [...]
2020 has been a catastrophic year all over the world and unfortunately it is neither getting better, nor is it over yet. In a number of places natural disasters are adding huge burdens to an already stressed and stretched population. Earthquakes, wild fires, floods, and landslides continue to have large impacts in certain places.... Click [...]
Along with most other locations in the United States and beyond, the Covid-19 pandemic is ravaging both the urban and remote villages alike. Cold winter weather has driven the citizens of the far north indoors, where in the remote native villages many times there are 3 and 4 generations of a family crowded under one [...]
Today is the 19th of October and the second snow of the season is drifting down. It’s been about three weeks since we said goodbye to the family of Sandhill Cranes that have for years nested just across our runway from our hangar. We won’t see them again until sometime in May, next spring. In [...]
Earlier this year when ACS received a special grant for food security for vulnerable populations, AWA participated in the food distribution with several flights to remote villages. AWA-Alaska enjoys a mutually beneficial relationship with Adventist Community Services. We praise God for the opportunity to serve people in need through this connection. The Fairbanks area ACS [...]
Pictured is the Kobuk River in front of the village of Shungnak. Shungnak is a village of approximately 270 Inupiat Eskimo people and less than ten nonnative folks associated with the K-12 school. This village has been a site for Adventist mission ministry since the late 1960s. But the tenure of our mission personnel [...]
The village of Birch Creek is approximately 90 nautical miles north of Fairbanks and about 20 miles south of the Yukon River. It is a small village of just less than thirty inhabitants. For over 100 years it has been considered an Episcopal strong-hold. Until about ten years ago when, due to budget short-falls [...]
Pictured is the open pit of the Fort Knox gold mine just 20 miles northeast of Fairbanks Alaska. This mine which operates 24/365 processes 45,000 tons of material per day in its mill. As of the fall of 2019, it had produced 8 million ounces of gold in the 20 years of its service life! [...]
The good news last week here was that the Cessna 172 XP repaired/overhauled engine is now back on the airplane. This airplane experienced a rather catastrophic alternator drive failure while on a training flight last August. Although the oil pump drive was sheared the engine did not seize, and the pilot landed at the Palmer, [...]
Jim Kincaid and Kim Ueeck load shelf stable food products for transport to the village of Shungnak to restock the village food bank. Recently, the largest regional airline in Alaska suddenly shut down due to the loss of revenues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With this cessation of services many of Alaska’s some 225 villages [...]
