Hello from Alaska!
Bill Endslow (pictured below), Wick Sunderland
and I have been working hard at our new
LightShine Missionary Base removing trees, clearing brush, removing stumps with a bulldozer, moving dirt and preparing our job site in order to build our first building.
This cow moose seemed to tolerate us working in her bedding area. She had no idea what we were preparing to do. We even had a small bull moose show up to watch us.
But when
Wick Sunderland (operating the dozer) started removing stumps with his bulldozer and moving dirt, the moose moved back into the trees.
What a blessing to have the equipment available to rent to do this work.
There is still a lot of work to do. But a week ago, all the dirt you see in this photo had high grass (to the right) and large trees (to the left) the size of the ones you see around them. Now the building site is ready for bringing in stone this week.
We are estimating 20 dump truck loads of stone is what we need to build a road that comes through the trees from the house and around the building site.
Thank you for all your financial support that allows us to do this work in preparation of the garage that we will building. The cost of the site work will probably be around
$2,000 and the cost of laying stone and building our driveway will probably be around
$8,000.
But this step is essential in order to build this new building that will house all our vehicles and tools.
Right now we have one big prayer request.
Please pray that the rain would stop. The photos above were taken on literally the only clear day that we had in a week of working in on and off rain. And the forecast is much the same for this week. At the time that I typed out this email report, this was the forecast.
We really need things to clear up and dry off so that the ground can dry out in preparation for large dump trucks to start laying stone at 9am on Thursday.
Thank you so much for your prayer.
This new LightShine Missionary Base will be the sending hub for our skilled teams to serve all across the state in remote Alaskan Native villages, three different Bible camps and many other ministries that could not survive without the help of missionary organizations like ours. All glory to God!
Keep us in
prayer
as we are in our new Capital Campaign to raise the money we need for purchasing materials for the construction of our first building on our missionary base.
Please email me if you would like to talk to me about giving towards this new missionary base building project.
Thank you so much!
