ALASKA Update#3

   

     On Tuesday, we handled out fliers for our first Park Party. The block party started at 6pm with a lot of people waiting on us. We set up everything and got the grill going. The park party was held at Balto Seppala.  The party was a big hit with three bounce houses, a snow cone machine, and a cotton candy machine. We cooked and handed out approx. 600 hot dogs and hamburgers. The pastor and members of True North were able to talk and bond with the people coming to the park.

     On Wednesday the park party was held at Jade Park. It was another big hit with even more True North members talking to people getting into the act of helping us out.

     Thursday our park party was held at David Green Park. It was another great success. The weather was in the in the mid 60s and we had blue sky for all threes days. The Lord had his hand on the weather. We had three very successful park parties. The biggest hit was the puppet show. The kids loved it. Pastor Brent was so touched with the puppet show that we did this year that he wants the team next year to do a puppet show during the park parties.

Alaska Update#2

   The Sunday service was held at the Lossac Library with about 120 people attending (alot of people were fishing). What was so neat, was that a homeless person named Michael accepted Christ and this was his first time attending (because he saw the coffee pot table out in the foyer and came in for some coffee). The next day we broke into two teams doing different service projects, one team went to the downtown soup kitchen the other team passed out doughnuts to the business community. The team members that worked the soup kitchen saw Michael at the soup line and talked to him, encouraged him, and had him look into his new bible that was given from True North. Later that night at dinner the pastor mentioned about receiving a phone call  from the business area asking about the Church that passed out the doughnuts.  Today we passed out fliers about the Park party we are having this evening. We will report back tomorrow about the Park party and send some pictures too.

Alaska Team Update#1

All members arrived safely. Went to church service this morning.  It was excellent.  We will start community service tomorrow.

Jimmy Bruff