No Bigger...Please!

Julie and I were driving around town running errands together working on scratching off items from the pages of lists of supplies for the summer. It was actually really nice to be out together and yes, conquering the list.  As we were driving with the radio on in the background Focus on the Family came on. The guest was a guy who does some sort of men’s ministry so I turned it up so we could listen; he was talking about how men today don’t live for things big enough. After a few minutes of listening, Julie looked at me and said "Please don’t think about doing anything bigger, this is plenty." We both laughed.  But to be honest, I do think bigger...Russia is just across the Bering Sea...wouldn’t it be cool if we could raise up a generation of believers from rural bush Alaska to reach the East Coast of Russia? Some day maybe—but for today this really is big enough...for now...

Dropping off dry & can food to fly out to PA

We have dropped off 4 loads similar to this to our friends at Lake and Penn Air to fly out to Port Alsworth.  I can see the light at the end of this season of the Anchorage Dash.  My Lowes/Home Depot/Spenard list is almost all marked out and Julie has most of the dried goods bought.  What’s left is the perishable food which she will get later this week. 

Right now the schedule looks like we will be dropping the boat off in Homer tomorrow and back to Anchorage on Tuesday. Sam, Zach and I fly out to Port Alsworth on Wednesday; Julie and Kaitlyn will follow on Friday or Saturday. It will give the boys a chance to get the fridge and freezer on and open the house making sure we don't need anything sent out that Julie could get.

OK about getting the boat out to Port Alsworth...we will bring it down to Homer tomorrow and it will sit in a lot waiting for the first barge of the season to go across the Cook Inlet. I am still green at this so I don’t' know all the ins and stuff but from what I've gathered the road that is on the North side of the barge line takes awhile to firm up from the snow melt. After it comes off the barge (some time in early June) it is pulled up to Pile Bay on Lake Illiamna where I will pick it up. Pile Bay is on the East end of the huge lake of Illiamna, I will dive the boat up with a buddy and have it pulled back out of the water and over a 13 mile stretch into Six Mile Lake which is connected to Lake Clark. Sounds like a great adventure, but I am also really thankful that I'll have help bring it up from Pile Bay! The bummer is that we won't have it in time for the cadet trip.  The plan for the 17 coming out at the end of the month is to make do with what we have and I will rent a boat or two from other friends in Port Alsworth for those two weeks of the cadet trip.

One leg high kick, part of
the Native Games.
World record is 9'8"!

For Mother's Day we went to the Native Heritage Center here in Anchorage. We love learning about the people and their culture.  On the front end of things it seems almost impossible for us be able to enter into thier lives. But, the more we are around them the more our hearts grow for them.  Jesus needs to heal.  

Thank you for praying for us!