Orientation Week

So... I know it has been a while since I have updated the blog.. Sorry about that one, but I am going to try and bring everyone up to date so far!! So the students arrived in Juneau on May 24th!!! It never seemed like the day would get here, but I am so happy that it did. We ran into some problems with some of the guys that were flying in to town because of all of the tornadic weather in the central United States, but everyone made it safely. On the 25th, we had a big long orientation meeting where we went through different rules that the University of Alaska Southeast had for us since we are staying in their housing. We also went through expectations and vision casting for the summer. Jason, our coordinator went through a lot of safety details about being in the Alaskan wilderness such as bear safety and things along those lines. We also divided all of the students up into different ministry teams and amongst the local churches in the community so we don't just flood one particular church. We have three different ministry teams this summer: prayer team, weekly meeting team, and the evangelism team. We divided the students up amongst 5 different churches in the community which include First Baptist, Douglas Island Bible, Calvary Fellowship, Chapel by the Lake, and Glacier Valley Baptist. I am attending Douglas Island Bible Church. I absolutely love the people of the church. They are so welcoming and inviting and very missional minded as a church. The pastor really preaches from the Word and does a great job of challenging the congregation as well. I am so excited that the students are finally here. The upcoming weekend, we are headed out to this place called Echo Ranch for orientation.

I am going to attach the video that we showed to the students to introduce the staff team. We had a little bit of fun. We did a dance video to the song Barbara Streisand. Hope you enjoy it....

Staff Introduction Video