I have safely returned from my trip to Aklavik, NT, Canada, and I am excited about what the Lord showed me while I was there. In general, life up Aklavik was a bit slower than it is here in Louisiana, and we managed to squeeze a lot of work and activities into the long, sun-filled days. The Lord answered our prayers and allowed the weather to be just perfect for replacing the church roof--it even got done a day earlier than expected! That freed up some time to work on other projects, including building some steps and adding a cross to the front of the church building.

We finished up with all of our work projects, so we took some time this afternoon to take a boatride into the bush about an hour up-river. While we were on the trip, we saw many birds, and we also saw an occasional beaver. One beaver was heading our way, so we chased it a little bit. It did not like that, though, so it would slap the water, and dive under soon to pop up where we chased it some more!

One of the "strange" things about the "Arctic world" is that during the summer months the sun never sets. Tonight is the first night that this happens for Aklavik, and since I love sunshine, this is great! I've always wondered what it would be like to live in a world where the sun never sets. The Bible talks about a time when 24-hour "Son-light" will be a reality! It really is different because your body clock gets changed significantly, in that you don't get tired as quickly in the evening. Aklavik is a fairly quiet town, but even now as I type this at 12:43 in the morning people are out and about doing things.

We got the roof done on the Aklavik Baptist Church today! We got done about a day earlier than we thought, so now we are working on additional things that need to be fixed at the church or at the Nolands' home.

We are in Aklavik and are making headway on the roofing project. We flew in yesterday via a small Cessna 207 plane, unloaded, and got started. This morning it was fairly cold--enough to have snow flurries!

I was able to meet up with Roger and Aaron Chastain in Chicago for our flight into Edmonton, Canada, tonight. Tomorrow we will head back to the airport to fly to Aklavik via Yellow Knife, Norman Wells, and Inuvik. The sun stays up for about 22 hours now.

We had a great turnout for the Church Work Day and for Bus Visitation. Thank you to everyone that helped! Thank you for serving your church and the Lord!