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Hey Fellow Dads,
Today we continue a three-episode series introducing both true and fictional stories from Alaska—tales of heroism, survival, and faith that can inspire you and your family to follow wherever God leads.
In this episode, my friend Pastor Jonathan Fisher shares how God called him to be the answer to his own prayers for needy communities in Alaska. He also talks about how serving the Lord is a privilege and joy—yes, even fun—and how we as husbands can lead our wives and children to know that joy in service to Christ.
Don’t miss out on Jonathan’s sharing an exciting and true “Alaskan adventure” story about an encounter with an Alaskan brown bear, too!
–Nathan
📖 Genesis 12:1-2
📖 Ephesians 4:11
📖 3 John 4
📖 Psalm 37:23
📖 Malachi 2:14
📖 James 4:7
📚 The Autobiography of George Mueller, by George Mueller
📚 Answers to Prayer, by George Mueller
📚 Adventures of an Arctic Missionary Series, by Gloria Repp
“For two months, every day, I was just finding myself really asking God, burdened about, ‘Lord, would You send laborers to Alaska? There’s a need there,’ and never thought about us.”
“Through some preaching, through some verses, God made the calling very clear, and the calling was evangelist. And to be honest, that scared me, I didn’t like that, because all I had ever really known about evangelist was guys who get in a RV and travel around the Lower 48 and hold meetings.”
Veteran missionary in Papua New Guinea, Dennis Wells’ advice to missionaries: “He said, ‘Well, you’re going to have to forget where you’re from,….You’re going to have to love where God put you,….and you’re going to have to learn to have fun.’ ”
“It’s important to enjoy where God put you.”
“My parents and my wife’s parents both instilled in us that we get to do this because we serve the Lord, because God takes great care of us.”
“As far as people from where we’re from that we can really connect with, there’s nobody, and so, I have my wife, and she has me. And God has allowed us to really develop a great relationship….And that is precious, to have a close relationship with your wife.”
“I came from San Diego, where life was very busy. You have so many friends and so many people to talk to, that sometimes, those who were supposed to be closest to can be neglected in caring for them.”
(v.) glass: to scan with a spyglass or other optical instrument.
(n.) breakup: in Spring, when the ice melts and breaks apart.
(n.) tungat: spirits, presumably with evil intent toward the living.
“There is another class of spirits, sometimes disembodied, sometimes associated with strange and terrifying forms, more or less under the control of the shamans. These are called the…Tungak (Alaska), which perhaps originally meant nothing more than ‘spirit,’ but in missionary accounts becomes ‘devil.’ The [Tungat] are malignant spirits who are to be propitiated.”—The Labrador Eskimo, by E.W. Hawkes, Ottawa, 1916
(n.) shaman: one who claims to have contact with the spirit world and thus wields power over other people.
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“Messenger,” the boat the Lord provided the Fishers for their ministry to the coastal villages.
In this episode, my friend Pastor Jonathan Fisher shares how God called him to be the answer to his own prayers for needy communities in Alaska. He also talks about how serving the Lord is a privilege and joy—yes, even fun—and how we as husbands can lead our wives and children to know that joy in service to Christ.
Don’t miss out on Jonathan’s sharing an exciting and true “Alaskan adventure” story about an encounter with an Alaskan brown bear, too!
Hey Fellow Dads, Today we begin a three-episode series introducing both true and fictional stories from Alaska—tales of heroism, survival,
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Hey Fellow Dads,
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Nathan
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