Royal Baptist Church | Mission Trip

We have several mission trips coming up. Our Family Mission Trip will be during Spring Break which is April 6 - April 10, 2008 to Camp Hawkins. This camp is for severly handicapped children and we go every year to do repairs and get the camp ready for the kids. The only cost will be a donation to help with food. We have a lot of fun, great worship time and opportunity to do ministry. Please sign up online by the calendar on the website or in the ministry area of the church.

Also our regular church mission trip will be June 8 thru June 13 and we will be going to the University of Tennessee to help build their College Baptist Union. We will be staying at the University. Sign up online or in the ministry area of the church.

Our World Changers mission trip will be July 21 thru July 24. See Billy Bowman for more information.

We have two other trips in the works. One for Africa and one for Alaska. More information to follow soon.

We arrived in Tetlin on Tuesday morning. Our first mission was to prepare the Titus David Tribal House. The kitchen is huge. However it was a disaster area. Our first challenge was to get running water. Second goal was to get hot running water. We were blessed in both counts, at least for a few hours. The next thing on the agenda was to clean, clean, clean. It obviously had not been cleaned in a very long time. We think we found a new type of pendicillin actually growing in some of the coffee pots and bowls. Our team worked extremely hard and transformed the kitchen in a matter of only 3 hours. This facility is built like a huge log cabin. In just a few passes with the broom it was totally transformed.

After that we hit the roads of the tetlin village. The buzz of chainsaws was in the air. Our teams split up. Some when to the road to collect the trees for the fire wood, while others remained in the village and cut the wood that had already been stacked in some of the elder's yards. Everyone worked very hard. We have been able to pray with almost every family we have cut wood for. I would like to share my contact with one particular elder, Miss Cora. Her and her husband Roy are very devoted Christians. Her sweet spirit was beautiful. She showed us some of her hand made birch baskets and bowls. She also showed us some of the hand made shoes she had made for her grand children. They were made from moose hide with rabbit fur around the top. The bead work was out of this world. Each shoe had at least 500+ beads, each one perfectly placed. When I asked her if there was anything I could pray with her about her one and only request was for the salvation of her 4 children. She told me how her heart was broken over the fact that they did not know the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior. There is an entire generation here that do not know the Lord.

Here are a few photos from the Alaskan Group. They are in the Tetlin village which is about 30 miles from Tok Alaska. Sorry I did receive these until about 7:00 Sunday night so I couldn't get them to church to show.

I want to thank you all so much for the help in preparing the bags for the Tetlin Christmas party. There were over 40 people there and they all sat quietly while I shared the gospel at the end of the Christmas party. The kids really love the hats, gloves, and all the candy. The elders also appreciated the sugar free candy. I visited with Roy and Cora David last night and they really appreciated all that you all had done for the village. We had plenty of gloves and hats left over, which we told the school if they had kids that needed them to let us know. I am not sure if you understand how much you have helped us out. I praise God for sending the entire group to us this past summer and your love for God and His people. Thank you and God bless you all this Christmas season. Because of your willingness to be used by God, many in Tetlin have been able to hear and see the gospel demonstrated. I praise God for you.