Movie Night!

Well, we had a very successful Movie Night last night!  There were about 20 people who showed up to see National Treasure.  Every Friday we show a movie here at the Church/Community Center.  Yesterday was the first day most everybody was off work, so we had about 20 people show up!  It was great to see the three Muslim guys I had talked to earlier in the day.  As everyone left they all received tracts (Thank You David!).  We only had two rejections of the Gospel tracts.

Thanks to the Church Board members, the church now has a projector that we can show movies on.  People are very excited way out here to have such a luxury!  Pray that the Lord will continue to use this medium for His Glory and that many will be reached with the Gospel.

The Lord heard some of your prayers yesterday!  We had a beautiful day and the Grumman Goose was able to make 3 trips for mail!  Woooohooooo!  I don't think I have ever seen so many people so excited over a plane!  LOL!  I think everyone who lives in the village was out at the landing sight!  David even ran out and took some cookies to the pilot.  Hopefully the bribe will help him return again soon!  ;-)

Please continue to pray for us, that we will faithfully share the love of Jesus with all we come into contact with.  Kelly has mailed out our Open-Air sketch-board supplies, so hopefully that will be arriving soon.  Pray also for the carpenters working on our sketch-board here.  I just found out that one of the important guys working on the project has left for vacation.

A special thank you to all of you who have made donations to our ministry!  Kelly and I are attempting to figure out a way to track all this stuff, but we haven't yet.  We are still trying to work out some type of an account arrangement.  We will keep you all posted.  Thank you all again for teaming with us!

Peter

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It appears our friend Ezekiel brought his wife (we think).  At least he has been telling his friends this is a cool place to hang out (pun intended).  We are just surrounded by incredible wildlife for such a desolate island.  The foxes were howling the other night and the eagles are always screaming at the ravens!

The other day a man had a heart attack at the plant.  This pic is of the medevac chopper from the Coast Guard.  You will see the only police officer assigned to the island walking in the background.  His name is Nick.  We have had several really good conversations.  It really is a "small town."

This is a pic of what I have been using the dry-erase board for now.  I got this idea from somebody on Facebook.  I basically post a question of a spiritual nature on the board and then allow people to post their opinions in a "voting" format.  This has stirred NUMEROUS conversations leading to the Gospel.  As you can see, there are MANY different religious beliefs represented here on Akutan.  Ironically, no one wanted to admit that they voted for reincarnation LOL!  But I had some great one-to-one conversations with many people.

Just today I had a long conversation with three Muslim guys.  Two of them admitted that they weren't "practicing" Muslims, but they sure tried to defend their faith.  It was very difficult to witness to them, but they heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I pray that the Lord will use the opportunity to convict them of their sin and that they might be saved.

Please continue to pray for David and I.  We are both missing the rest of the family.  We haven't had mail/a plane for over two weeks now.  Nothing but snow, snow, and more snow.  Even the villagers I talk to say they have never seen it this bad here.  Pray that the weather breaks and we get some nice days!

Thank you all very much for your prayers and support!  It means so much to us all!

Peter

Sharing the Gospel

 When we were about to close the gym, we had about 20 people who wanted a ride back to the plant.  I asked each of them to stick around and listen to a brief presentation.  The all heard the Gospel that night in the form of a sketch-board presentation.  Most were very open to hearing me talk.  A few mocked the Gospel, but they can't say on Judgement Day that they didn't hear it!

 Here I am doing the Open-Air Sketch-board presentation.  I will note here, for those who have done this before;  DO NOT do this, as I did... with dry-erase markers!  Painting is the only way to go!  We miss our paint kit!  If anyone wants to help in this area, please get with Kelly, or better yet, drop me an e-mail and let me know you are willing to help.  I will point you in the right direction for what we need.  This is a VERY promising form of sharing the Gospel here!

The end product.

Before everyone left, they all received a Gospel tract, and most all of them thanked me.  We appreciate your prayers.  PLEASE keep praying for witnessing opportunities for us.  I just spoke with our plant P.A. (who attends our services).  He had been asking for prayer regarding him having an opportunity to witness to a Shiite Muslim friend of his here.  He pulled me aside and told me that he had an opportunity to witness to him because of a tract that he had given to him the day before!  His friend had many questions for Bill (the P.A.).  Please be in prayer for this man, and Bill, as well.

Kelly and I are trying to organize a ministry account for others to partner with us by giving financially.  We haven't worked that out yet, but I know many of you have asked.  I will try to let you know through this blog when we have something set up.

Thank you all again for your support and friendship!

Till His Nets Are Full,

Peter

Our friend Ezekiel.  What a majestic bird!  He doesn't seem to have a problem posing for photos!  He comes about once a week or so to our back deck.  Then just waits there for a treat!

Ezekiel posing with our American Flag.  He wasn't too sure about it at first, but he gave in eventually.

David and I had the opportunity to do a booth at the local school on "Safety Day."  We had a booth for emergency first aid/CPR.  It was a great way to meet people from the village.

Some of the folks from our Wednesday night Bible Study.  We are going through the Way of the Master evangelism course.  Everyone is really enjoying it...and being challenged!  We were short a few people because of a bad ice storm (yup, an ice storm in April!  Even the villagers can't believe it!).

Me and Darcy.  He is a great brother in the Lord.  He is one of my constant encouragements here.  He works for Trident on one of their processing ships and goes home to Seattle sometime this week.  I will surely miss him when he is gone!  Last night he walked through the ice storm just to come to Bible study!

David and I had an opportunity to do some snowshoeing the other day.  It was one of those rare days when it was nice out!  We got a few shots of the area above the church.  Creation here is absolutely breath-taking!

My mountain climbing companion!  It was David's first time traversing ice fields.  He had a great time!  The climb was difficult, but the views were worth the pain!

I had to have David get a shot of me playing my flute from the top of the ridge.  It was great!  I got a few funny looks from a fox (no relation) but the eagles enjoyed my playing.

One last shot from further up the mountain.


We look forward to spring, whenever that might be.  Please keep all of the Fox family in your prayers.  It is not easy being separated from each other.  God is certainly providing for each of us, but we all can't wait to be back together again (hopefully come June).