Ways You Can Help (Needs) - :
Transportation Help!!
We have been having trouble with our four wheelers. The newest one, the timing chain partially broke and slipped a couple of teeth, I am going to have to take the motor out and ship it in for repair. And my older (10 years old) four Wheeler the motor seized, so we are without Spring, Summer,Fall transportation. It's warm enough to drive 4-wheelers now and they are much better on gas.
VBS
Our VBS will be the first week of July. We are in need of snacks for about 75 for each of the 5 days. We will have children's VBS in the afternoon and youth VBS at night. We also need Kool-Aid. Please send RED SUGAR FREE KOOLAID ONLY!!!
Women On Mission
We recently started a WMU group. We meet every Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. We made prayer shawls to minister to our own community. We have also started a card ministry, we make our own cards. We have given to Ricks Institute and collected money to send to Samaritan's purse for Christmas.
We are in need of snacks, not only for WMU, but for Sunday School
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We need help! There is a big need here for help with utilities for the church and house property. The town is very limited on jobs and being able to support this church and the other church in town is very difficult. If the Southern Baptist are going to continue serving the Lord in Kiana, we must have outside financial help. Please make out checks to: Kiana Baptist Mission and designate for utilities. Then mail to: Kiana Baptist Mission P.O. Box 145 Kiana, Alaska 99749. We need a minimum of $1000 per month to meet monthly needs and that is without any income for the pastor.
The average monthly contributions that come in from Kiana are $250 $300.
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Native Youth Camp report
ANYC Administrator
Hello everyone,
Our preliminary results show we had:
1. 1 11 salvations
2. 16 rededications
3. 3 baptisms (Jesse Sergie (DLG), Autumn Bronson (IAN), and Marc Nanalook (TOG…one of our counselors)
Our FIRST EVER baptisms at ANYC! There’s about 11 that WANT to be baptized…pastors, looks like you have some candidates.
What numbers don’t show is how the camp has positively affected not only campers but counselors and staff as well…one of those “gotta be there” kind of things. The Holy Spirit did His part and PTL we did ours.
The students learned a little about sexual purity and gained a few tools to help them fight that battle. They were also challenged to be “rescuers” and missionaries in their communities.
We had several who passed the Evangecube tests and others made AWESOME tracts to share their faith with. They are WAY more creative than you and I may think. I wish you could see some of their tracts…encourage them to make them often and share with their friends.
Pray for me as I travel to Unalakleet to preach for a week at their VISION ’08 camp.
Lance Kramer
Airfare for one of our youth to go to camp this year was $637.
The planning for ANYC '09 begins right now. Please pray how God can use you.
The following is an excerpt taken from an email sent by our supervisor, John Forrester in Kotzebue, which is our mother church:
Another thing that all of us will have to do if we want to see the ministries survive up here is we have to all work hard on trying to build partners from outside Alaska to partner with us. The offerings from all of the churches/missions are not keeping up with the expenses of utilities and fuel oil. That means even the mother church is having problems as well. One of the mission churches is running almost a $1000 in the red as I paid bills today. You all get my newsletter and you know how I have been asking for partners from churches in the lower 48. We have gotten a little response but we still have a long ways to go. Do not be afraid to share with all of your contacts what your needs are.
First Baptist here is running over $2000 a month just on heating oil and electricity, and we have been doing everything we can to save on the use of both. We are looking into a new heating system for the church to see if that would help cut our cost. Of course, we will have to raise the money to pay for the system once we are told what will work.
Remember, all of the mission support from ABC is starting the phase down this month. That means, you will be getting a $100 less each month.
Ideas for your group is to provide snacks, Valentine party items, Easter party items, VBS snacks, Thanksgiving items, and Christmas party items. We have many needs throughout the year and wanted to mention now, so you could be praying what God might have you do to be involved in what He is doing here in Kiana.
The $100 a month phase down is for us personally for a stipend to live on. Jan. 1st, 2009 our stipend is now cut $400 a month.
