Ministry Location: Alaska
Ministry Description: MARC seeks to advance the gospel across isolated parts of Alaska by using airplane excellence- through flight training, hospitality, airplane maintenance and ministry flying we look to come alongside pastors, missionaries and churches in hard to reach places in Alaska to support their ministry using airplanes to overcome barriers of terrain and distance.
Recent Ministry Fruit: With the gift of the new Caravan airplane that was given to our ministry by Samaritan's purse, we were able to carry more cargo, take more kids to summer Bible camps and cover more air miles than we have in our history-- we praise GOD for this blessing and for the opportunities that we have had through this. We also have been able to host missionary families and work teams with the new asset of the lodge that we have been able to acquire which has allowed our ministry to bless missionary families, guests and flight students with the blessing of a place to stay for a few days or in the case of flight students, a few months while
they get their pilot training at MARC. We have also seen doors open in regard to villages being willing to receive Bible club teams through child evangelism fellowship- villages are not only willing to receive these teams, but are asking for them. Not only are the 7 local elementary schools hosting after school Bible clubs on the central Peninsula of Alaska, but there are also teams being requested to be flown out to villages every month to share the gospel through three day Bible clubs in the schools in remote villages of Alaska! We are so thrilled to see these open doors and receptiveness from the people of these villages!
Recent Challenges: There is more work to do than there are workers to accomplish all the tasks. We need more pilots, more mechanics and more staff members at MARC. In light of these, we ask that you pray with us, as it is a constant challenge for our family to prioritize what are the best ways to spend our time. We have ministry both in our local community and our local church as well as at MARC. We also need to lead and shepherd our own family, therefore we feel the constant tug of wanting to do more and also needing to know when to say that we need make our family time a priority, and when and where we should be directing our time and energies. We want to be good stewards of our time, but also know that the time that we have on earth to impact for the world for Christ is limited and is precious.
