Craig Bell Tower
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The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Monday, December 19, 2011 (200 reads)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:1-5
In Him was life, and that light is our life. Life and light are such powerful images and experiences, as are their opposites, darkness and death. Darkness, of course, is really the absence of light, as death is the ending or absence of life—both are Nothing. St John proclaims that into the midst of this nothingness came the Word,
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A child … well, a teenager … shall lead them
Thursday, September 30, 2010 (1600 reads)
Visionary 17-year-old Alaskan leads one-month mission trip to Africa
by Toni Montgomery
Special to Presbyterian News Service
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of stories about congregations responding to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s call to “Grow Christ’s Church Deep and Wide.” The call to grow in evangelism, discipleship, servanthood and diversity was adopted by the 2008 General Assembly and renewed by the 2010 General Assembly. — Jerry L. Van Marter
 STATESVILLE, NC — Most teenage boys think about friends, girls, video games, sports, cars and maybe school sometimes. But 17-year-old Hunter Badgely, a member of Haines Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of Alaska, has had something completely different occupying his mind since he was 12.
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At sea with ‘The Presbyterian Navy’
Friday, July 30, 2010 (1739 reads)
‘Princeton Hall’ keeps alive the history of PC(USA) Alaskan boat ministry
by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
HOONAH, Alaska — The two-way radio squawks repeatedly during the four-and-a-half hour run aboard the Princeton Hall from Juneau to Hoonah, a small village along the Inside Passage. The messages are admiring comments from passing boaters about the 49-ton, 65-foot cruiser built nearly 70 years ago to serve Presbyterian mission in Southeast Alaska.
For nearly 100 years, a series of mission boats — dubbed “The Presbyterian Navy” — plied the waters of “Southeast” visiting the Alaska Native village churches scattered among the islands here. The last of them, the Anna Jackman, ceased service in 1982 and was sold to private owners by Alaska Presbytery.
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In the garden
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 (1619 reads)
Church built on garden plot still growing Presbyterians after 85 years
by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
ANGOON, Alaska — In 1925, Dan Johnson Jr.’s grandfather, Samuel, was looking for a piece of land in this southeast Alaska island village on which to build a Presbyterian church. Samuel found his land when his sister volunteered her prized vegetable garden overlooking Chatham Strait.
Dan’s father, Dan Sr., was baptized during the first worship service at what is today Frances Johnson Memorial Presbyterian Church — named after Sam’s much-loved first wife shortly after her death.
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A Public Television documentary of the history of Presbyterian missions and missionaries in Southeast Alaska. Watch it now!
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$1174
The 2011 Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend is $1174. For those with electronic deposit, the money is already in your account, and for those awaiting a check, it's in the mail.
Tithe it! Acknowledging that all we have comes from the hand of God, and that in Christ we trust ourselves into His care and purpose, tithing is the spiritual discipline of devoting the first tenth of all we receive to the work of Christ. It is an invitation to the Holy Spirit to mold us more closely to the mission and person of Christ, the Lord of Life.
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The Presbytery of Alaska will meet in Kake on September 28-30, 2012, sharing in the centennial celebration of the Kake Memorial Presbyterian Church.
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