We hope you had a great Labor Day weekend. We sure did. To be honest, we didn’t really do much of anything other than hang around the house (Oh yeah, we re-arranged the basement!)
ABM has moved into a new office, located in the same building where we hangar our plane, and only a stone's throw from where we are planning to build our own facility. It also has much more than the 300 SQ FT of our old office!
Although the old address will still work for a year (and we may use up some old return envelopes with that in mind) please take note of our new address.
Arctic Barnabas Ministries
135 Granite Point Court
Kenai, Alaska 99611
Thanks to a couple of partners with ABM, who have designating gifts to cover the increase in rent, we are able to make this move without any significant impact on the budget! Praise the Lord for his faithfulness.
We are gearing up for our annual Ministry Family Retreat, held annually at Tanalian Bible Camp in Port Alsworth. This will be the fourth year we have done this event, and it really has become one of the main efforts of our ministry. MFR is held for bush ministry families, and it takes place in the bush. We do whatever we can to get families in from all over the state. You can imagine the logistics and costs involved. But the payoff is enormous. Nothing like a bush missionary, struggling with ministry in his village, rubbing shoulders with someone serving in similar circumstances. Or better yet, someone who has been through a rough time and has now come out the other side!
The ladies will be spending time together and we also have a program for the kids.
It's fully how people from the road system sometimes here about this retreat and ask us if they can attend. But our focus is on bush families, and we want to KEEP the focus there, even as awareness of this event spreads among the evangelical community.
Please pray for us in the final weeks leading up to this event, October 5 - 8. We had 180+ in attendance last year!
I am now doing some driving for a local public transportation service some on the side, as well as trying to keep a computer project or two going every week. The more computer work I can do in my home, the more flexibility I have regarding ministry (But isn’t it ALL Ministry, really??).
Our youngest daughter, Cassie, recently had another grand mal seizure. She has had other episodes, but it has been over a year since her last full blown seizure.
Please keep us in your prayers. To be honest, we are really getting a bit worn out! But we believe that God is still very much a part of all this, and we are confident that He wants the best for us. The trick is for us to stay receptive and be ready for whatever comes our way.
Thank you
Scoopin' Up The Manna - - One Day at a Time!
(NOTE: I had one dear friend ask me the above line was a good thing or a bad thing. His concern was that some could read it and think I was referring to it as a arduous task. In light of that, let me offer this clarification: SCOOPIN' = short for scooping. We don’t just pick it up. We scoop it up because there is so much that God gives us daily to keep us going. ONE DAY AT A TIME = when the Israelites tried to store up manna for the next day, it rotted. They were quite literally being sustained from day to day. Well, that's where we want to be.).
See ya!
Gary Harris
