Dear Family and Friends, The first Sabbath services held in the village of Birch Creek was on Sabbath, May 21. Thirteen volunteers from the Fairbanks, North Pole, and Delta Junction churches in Alaska arrived in three different Cessna aircraft—one was AWA’s Cessna 207 and the other belonged to local Seventh-day Adventist church members. [...]
Dear Family and Friends: Kim and Laree Ueeck have lived in Galena for more than 20 years. Laree is a Special Education teacher and Kim is a heavy equipment operator for the Alaska State Department of Transportation. For a number of years they have led out in Sabbath worship and Bible Studies in the community. [...]
We peered out the dusty windshield and down the steep and bumpy road. We could see about five or six little children all dressed up in their best, jumping up and down, excitedly shouting, “Deh commin! Deh Commin’!” (translated, “They’re coming!”). Then they ran to tell their brothers and sisters that the ride to church [...]
As the LaBore's and Maloney's prepare for the upcoming youth mission trip to Palawan in the Philippines, one of the key concerns was water. An old water tower and a well was at the mission house building site, but it was doubtful that it would produce water. However, after cleaning it up and hooking up [...]
There is a saying in Palawan that most visitors who visit the Island are infected with the “Come Back” syndrome. I’m a witness to this because after my first visit, I not only came back, I came back with my wife to stay, and have lived here for the last 8 years! The Underground River, [...]
It was clear that God had led in the past. We sat at Don Starlin’s table in Berrien Springs, Michigan, taking it all in. When the events he told us about had occurred several years ago, we were too occupied with the Guyana project for events in the Philippines to sink into our grey [...]
