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Mission Focus: From Wrangell to Madagascar
Friday, February 15, 2008 (0 reads)
Psalm 138:8 The Lord will work out his plans for my life…
 Elder Nettie Covalt and Rev. Janice Stamper from the First Presbyterian Church in Wrangell, Alaska are preparing for a mission trip to Madagascar. The first call to be connected with Madagascar came through the three boys in Sunday School, who raised $1500.00 the first year and then over $5,000 the next year for orphans in Madagascar. Now, the call continues as Nettie and Janice go and experience Madagascar to see and hear the reality, then bring their voices of that experience home from those who have no voice and no power.
In the book of Mark, Jesus sent out his disciples two at a time. He told them they needed nothing for the journey, just their sandals and a tunic. Today travel for the Lord’s works requires much more, especially when traveling from Wrangell, AK! Your help is needed though prayer, which is the most important. Secondly, financial help is needed. If you are able to support this mission trip through a donation, please send it to First Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 439, Wrangell, AK 99929 marked for "Madagascar
Mission Trip."
Please join us as we see what the Lord has planned for us in this mission opportunity given to the First Presbyterian Church in Wrangell, Alaska.
For more information, please contact Nettie at: kimnet@ak.net
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Mission Focus: Kuukpik Presbyterian Church
Friday, February 01, 2008 (153 reads)
Presbytery of Yukon’s Mission Focus for 2007/2008
In October, the Presbytery of Yukon voted to begin featuring an annual mission focus for the presbytery. There are two goals for the presbytery’s mission focus:
* To assist a ministry in accomplishing a particular mission,
* And to help the presbytery learn more about, and pray for that particular ministry.
 This year’s mission focus is the Kuukpik Presbyterian Church. Kuukpik Presbyterian Church is located in the village of Nuiqsut on the Nechelik Channel of the Colville River Delta. Nuiqsut was one of three abandoned Inupiat villages identified in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. Under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Native communities with at least 25 people could form village corporations, and claim entitlement to some of their traditional lands. In 1973 thirty-five families of the Kuukpikmiut, the Kuukpik people, re-establish the village of Nuiqsut, and in 1975 the Kuukpik Presbyterian Church received its charter.
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