A/G Churches in Alaska's Yukon Delta Area

Assemblies of God Churches
in the Yukon Delta area of Alaska
Updated 31-Jan-08

Miss Harriet Brown pastored Kotlik for a number of years. Her memorial website is at
www.spaciousskies.me/howard/Alaska/HarrietBrown.html

Alakanuk

Summer view in 1998

Right: This view shows the work done since the above picture was taken.

A winter view

Pastor of the church in Alakanuk is the Rev. Marvin Paul.

Yupik Assembly of God

Alakanuk folks visiting the
Emmonak church, August 1998

Emmonak

Pastor Austin Jones, his wife Jennifer, and their young son Aiden moved to Emmonak in September 2007. Their home page is at www.austinjones.org

The parsonage is on the second floor of the church building.

National Weather Service weather link for Emmonak, Alaska

Yukon Delta Assembly of God

Kotlik

Pastor Jim Okitkun under the tent at Camp Agaiutim Nune
(Camp AN), July 2008

Kotlik is a unique village in that it has no roads, only boardwalks,
because of the wet soil, so cars and pickups aren't needed.

Kotlik Assembly of God

Howard & Marge in Kotlik,
June 1998. The boardwalk
is laid on the tundra.

For community information about these and other Alaska villages:
Go to the DCRA Community Information Summary page.

To find the Delta, get a map of Alaska and find Fairbanks; now move west to the Bering Sea, and there you are. The three villages are not very far apart; however, they aren't connected by roads because of the wet tundra. So you travel between them either by small plane or boat from May through September and by snowmobile after the Yukon River and its branches freeze over. Once the Yukon is solid, it's like a highway! Within the villages, four-wheelers (ATVs) are popular for getting around and carrying things. Emmonak, the largest of the three, has several taxis, and Grant Air picks up and delivers passengers and freight in a van, which the Marshalls called "The Grantmobile."

The buildings in Alakanuk, Emmonak and Kotlik are built on stilts because when the river breaks up, the ice tends to make temporary dams, causing flooding. From time to time, the erosion of the silt river banks makes it necessary to move the buildings farther away from the river. Whole villages have been relocated for the same reason. For example, in 1964, the village of Kwiguk was moved to another place and renamed Emmonak.

The entire Delta area is a wildlife refuge; many birds are seen during late spring, summer, and early fall. Local families hope to get their moose each fall so they'll have meat as well as fish to eat through the colder part of the year. For more about life in this part of West Alaska, see West Alaska 98 and M3's Home on the Web.

An excellent source of information about the Yukon Delta is The Alaska Geographic Society's Quarterly, Volume 17, Number 4, $17.95 US, $21.95 Canadian. They offer a catalog of available titles about other parts of Alaska.

The Alaska Geographic Society
P. O. Box 93370
Anchorage AK 99509- 3370
(907) 258- 2515

For information about these and other Alaska churches, contact
The Alaska District Council of the Assemblies of God
1048 West International Airport Road, Suite 101
Anchorage, Alaska 99518
(907) 562- 2247
Fax 907- 562-2352

supt@alaskaag.org

The Assemblies of God Home Page
is located at
www.ag.org

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