Mountains to Missions

Combination Adventure/Mission Trips

Love God - Love People

Alaska is an extremely beautiful and diverse part of the world, not only in its landscapes and wildlife, but in its people and cultures.  We rejoice in this diversity , but along with this comes the fact that there are people of need.

Alaska's remote "Bush" communities have great need and it is TNX's desire to respond to that call - to reflect the love of Christ through serving those in need.  TNX have partnered with organizations, such as Arctic Barnabas Ministries, to put together what we term, "Mountains to Missions" - combination adventure/mission trips.  These adventure/mission trips combine the aspects of wilderness ministry and serving people in practical ways from remote villages throughout Alaska to the "concrete jungle" of downtown Anchorage.  They are EXTEMELY IMPACTFUL as they go right to the heart and essance of what God calls us to do - allow God to fill us with love and then pour that out to others by serving them.

If our "Mountains to Mission" program interests your group, please let us know.  There are a myriad of projects and programs throughout the state of Alaska, on the road system and in the Bush, where your group can serve.  TNX will connect you with those needs and ministries and make sure it is a fit for your group.

 Scheduled or Open to Select for your group "Mountains to Missions" Trips for 2008

 

 

Trip Name	Location	Adventure	Work Porject*	Dates	Cost* per person
Kako Men's Adventure	Kako Retreat Center, near Russian Mission, Yukon River	Packrafting Kako Creek, fishing for salmon, grayling, and northern pike; trekking in the alpine in the Illivit Mountains.	Cutting firewood for families for the winter	September 7-12, 2007	$950
Pedro Bay	Lake Iliamna	Packrafting local creeks and on Iliamna Lake, fishing for salmon, grayling, northern pike rainbow and lake trout; trekking in the alpine in the peak that surround Pedro Bay.	Cutting firewood for families for the winter	Call to schedule (June - September)	$950
Old Harbor	Southwest side of Kodiak Island on Stkalidak Strait	Packrafting, fishing for salmon and other species, and exploring the alpine around Old Harbor and Sitkalidak Island	Cutting firewood for families for the winter	Call to schedule (June - September)	$1000
Larsen Bay	Uyak Bay, Kodiak Island	Packrafting and fishing the Karluk River, one of Alaska's most prolific river systems for salmon and steelhead	Cutting firewood for families for the winter	Call to schedule (June - October...timing with steelhead run!)	$1200
Mekoryuk	Nunivak Island, 50 miles off the coast of the Yukon River delta	Exploring the tudra island's volcanic interior for musk oxen, trekking along the rocky coastline, and packrafting the Mekoryuk River and fishing for Arctic char	Parsonage renovation project.  Phase I will be a recon trip to gut the inside of the house and plan for its renovation.  Arctic Barnabas will lead project.	Call to schedule (June - September)	$1200
Scammon Bay	West coast of Alaska on the Kun River	Trekking the Askinuk Mountains to the Lithikealik River and packrafting/fishing to the coast.	Parsonage work and repaint church repaint and boiler work	Call to schedule (June - September)	$1100

*TNX is only insured for the adventure portion of the trips.  Separate missionary/work project insurance is recommended for each participant which usually runs about $50/person/trip.  Contact TNX for more information.  Missionary insurance not included in cost of the trip.

How does the "Mountains to Missions" program work?

1. "On-Site" Trips:  TNX has connected with other ministries throughout the state to determine needs in those locations.  Working with those ministries, TNX has a suite of "Mountains to Missions" adventures for 2007 that groups can select from.  These are where we do a wilderness trip "onsite" or in the region where we will be doing our mission work. 
2. Groups can also select a wilderness trip from TNX's suite of adventures, then after your adventure, TNX will connect you with an organization/ministry where there is a need.  Please contact TNX for more information.

Alaskan Villages Adventure/Mission Options:

• Elim, Norton Sound
• Kako Retreat Center, Yukon River
• Unalakleet, Norton Sound
• Golovin, Norton Sound
• Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska

Other On- and Off-Road System Options:

• Cordova, Prince William Sound
• Anchorage
• Matanuska Valley

Why adventure/mission trips?

In Matthew 22:34-36, it is recorded that the teachers of the Law were questioning Jesus about "what is the greatest commandment in the Law?"  And Jesus answered them, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'  This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." 

LOVE GOD

Adventure/mission trips to remote areas of Alaska are as varied as the land and people itself.  Typically, we will have a wilderness adventure ministry component to the trip where we will enjoy God and His creation, learn about Him and His Word, be renewed, strengthened and inspired by Him, build relationships with one another and community with those who we are on the trip with, and simply worship the Lord in the beauty of His creation.  This is simply loving and worshipping the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind!

 

LOVE PEOPLE

The second component of adventure/mission trips is loving people, as God has commanded us.  Because God is love (1 John 4:16), if we are in Him and He in us, an expression of our faith as followers of Christ is serving people and their needs.  Whatever those needs are in that location, whether it is constructing a room onto the local church, building a boardwalk for the community, cutting wood for families for the winter, whatever it is, we are called to have a heart of a servant.