This past weekend Sitka hosted the regional basketball tournament! This event was a very big deal. Below is an email sent out by my boss and dear friend Brent Cunningham.
Other news & Prayer request: This weekend we are partnering with the local churches to provide a girls discipleship weekend. We are flying up a speaker from Seattle and have 20+ local women helping facilitate this event. We are hoping to reach 50+ girls from both Mt. Edgecumbe and Sitka High School. Pray for girls to come! Pray for the speaker the leaders and facilitators! Pray for the holy spirit mighty hand to be at work!
"Basketball is everything in rural Alaska. Winters are long and cold. The gym is the place where LIFE happens. ESPN just aired a great "ESPN short" on basketball in Toksook Bay, Alaska. I've been to Toksook to visit some kids from Mt Edgecumbe High School over Christmas break. Mt Edgecumbe is our high school in Sitka that has approximately 400 students from 120 different villages.
If you really want a little glimpse of what life is like in bush Alaska...watch this video. It will capture your heart.
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