Kris and Cassie will be flying out on a Ladies trip to three villages this Thursday. Actually, they are spending most of their time in Pedro Bay and Iliamna, but taking a dear friend from Port Alsworth with them to assist. This is a neat way to do this because it gives one lady from the bush an opportunity to assist in ministry to two other ladies.
I struggle at times about going into detail about the situation in some of the villages we visit. But please pray for safety as they travel and a clear path to ministry.
I am also working on final plans to be visiting two pastors in the Norton Sound Area next month. Also, Joel and I will be attending a strategy summit led by a partner church in Anchorage as we consider "community" across the vast expanses where we serve. More and more, my tech background is coming into play in real ways.
There's one native gal from the village of Golovin who, along with her husband, serve in a village of a hundred or so people. She calls me "dot.com" I will finish a conversation with her husband on the phone, or she will be talking to Kris and say "How's that dot.com doing?" Needless to say, I think only of them now whenever I hear that phrase in any other context.
I just got of the phone with a friend who lives here locally, but traveled back to the village he is from to bury his grandfather, who recently died. As it turns out, he also has had an uncle die, and just tonight told me of a cousin also died this week. I don't know any of the details, or even too much of his family background. But please say a prayer for this young man and his family, won't you?
Finally, Kris and I are working on some itinerary items for some deputation trips to the west coast, Michigan and Texas. If you are interested in having us come and share in your church at some time in 2004, please let me know so we can at least consider all things when we make plans. Some of you support us financially, and we are thankful for that partnership. But we also covet your prayers as we are involved in dispensing God's blessings from vessels that are patched up at best! <grin>
There or in the air!
Gary Harris
