How can you pray?

One of the most important components of mission outreaches is prayer. We can go the whole summer giving free meals to kids and telling them stories from the Bible and that would be great! But, imagine how much more we could impact these lives with God's involvement. So what better way to involve God than ask Him daily for His divine guidance and intervention.

Ways that you could pray at any point this summer:
-Pray for the physical strength, spiritual endurance, and for Christ's love to be reflected through the summer missionaries this summer.

-Pray for the leadership to remain within God's guidance and direction of the mission this summer.

-Pray for the mission teams that come every week to have spiritual experiences that bring them closer to God.

-Pray for the kids at the park that we will be building relationships with all summer to see the life changing love of Christ.

-Pray for the people of Anchorage and of Alaska to feel the movement of God in Alaska on a personal level.


Summer Team:
Stu Suddeth (summer missionary coordinator)
Morgan Suddeth (summer missionary coordinator)
Kristen Habermehl
Courtney Munson
Emma Nystrom
Meredith Fick
Levi Miller
Zach Haynie
Earl Wiser
RJ Osborne
Cody Hammond


I encourage you to pray for our team by name this summer. On behalf of our whole team, we covet your prayers this summer; and we thank you in advance for your prayers and support.

God Bless,
Patrick Tayne

So, what are we doing this summer?

One of AK Missions' many outreaches is called Mission Anchorage. Mission Anchorage is a 9 week summer lunch program that provides free lunch 5 days a week for kids under the age of 18. Each day we make hundreds of brown bag lunches and then split up to different parks throughout Anchorage and serve lunch to tons of kids. In addition, we share a story from the Bible and simply spend some time building relationships with these kids. Each week, we have a different mission team join us (usually from the lower 48) to help us invest time into these kids.
Every one of the parks that we work at is in a low-income area of Anchorage. Across the different parks, we have families from all sorts of ethnic, religious, and family backgrounds, but one constant is that the majority of the kids at our parks have not experienced the love of Christ. The goal of this summer outreach is that these kids and their families begin to understand more about the root of the love that we serve them out of. Last summer, we had the privilege of bringing many of the kids at our parks to know Jesus in a personal relationship as well as invest in them after their decision to express the importance of their pursuit to know Him more.

Anchorage (and all of Alaska) is far from the Bible-belt that I am use to as a Texas. Many of these kids were hearing the name of Jesus Christ for the first time in their lives; their parents were hearing the story of what Jesus Christ has done for them for the first time. This summer, we desire to tell His story to more people that haven't heard it yet and share the love that Jesus first showed us.

If you pour yourself out for the hungry

and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
then shall your light rise in the darkness

and your gloom be as the noonday.

                        ~Isaiah 58:10

Please continue to pray for this summer and for spiritual, logistical, and financial preparation in our team leading up to this summer.

Thank you and God bless you!

Patrick Tayne