From Alaska in July

This week's TPE carries my Alaska story, plus we have TPExtras, a podcast here, and a slideshow here.

Move of God in Ethnicity Commission

Here I am with my friend Samuel Asiedu, president of the African Fellowship of the AG, after the landmark Ethnicity Commission meeting that took place yesterday. I will be blogging about this on the TPE Blog and also doing an article in the magazine. It was a powerful day. More later.

Please continue praying for Peggy. She received results today from her tests yesterday. She still has pneumonia and she also has a partially collapsed lung. She's a very sick little girl and we really need the Lord to touch her.

Bear Attacks

A bear entered the camp of the MCNP students near the beginning of the Yukon River trip and ripped open a new Cabela's tent. When the bear became aggressive and refused to be run off, Ron Pratt, director of MCNP, fearing for the students, had to shoot him. Later, in Fort Yukon, we ate black bear backstrap and ribs. Ron gave most of the bear meat to a native village, for which they were very grateful.

At an Athabaskan fish camp we stopped at, there was a "bear dog," a dog kept just to keep bears from stealing the fish.

Later, in a store in Anchorage, I saw a bear spray on sale, along with this (redundant) promo: "Stops harmful attacks." Are there any bear attacks that are NOT harmful?

North to Alaska

The Blog will take a rest as I travel on assignment to Alaska. I will be boating down the Yukon River and stopping with Master's Commission kids for ministry at various Native American villages. The first Sunday, I'll be preaching in North Pole. In the meantime, feel free to post comments to any of our entries. I return Mon., 7/23.