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