Hello everyone. Brother Steve in Dillingham expressed 2 issues regarding keeping 3rd milers for Leadership Week and Fusion '08 after ANYC.
He doesn't want Isaac to stay for Leadership Week because:
1. The extra cost involved. He will not personally pay for Isaac to stay for leadership week. (It would cost about $200 to fly him back commercially.) He's the only 3rd miler that I know of from the Southwest.
2. Steve doesn't feel we should be showing the 3rd milers Alaska Christian College and Amundsen Education Center in Soldotna and AVTEC in Seward because they aren't Southern Baptist Institutions. That since these kids are going to camp via Southern Baptist dollars, we should introduce them to Wayland Baptist University instead.
Does anyone have any suggestions or comments they would like to post regarding these 2 concerns?
What would you like the 3rd milers to see/experience while they're here for leadership week?
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I agree with Steve and the general principal of showing the kids that we through our efforts as Christians and members of the Southern Baptist Convention, who have allowed God's word under the unction of the Holy Spirit through our efforts throughout this state on behalf of evangelizing Alaska Natives, to let them know of the opportunities for a Southern Baptist education. This is something that I've stated a number of times over the past 9 or so years.
I too wish we could send our Native fledglings to a SB Indigenous Church Planting training center that is considerate of their needs as 1st-year-out-of-the-Bush Natives. We just don't have something like that.
As an Alaskan Native who's attended UAF, Southern Seminary in Kentucky (online), and Wayland in Anchorage, I can flat out tell you guys that it takes a Native who is very strong in their academic skills (reading, writing, math, and critical thinking skills) to make it at the University level.
Not only that, they better have some coping skills too. I spent 3 years of my highschool life in Soldotna, so that helped me learn how to cope before I attended UAF...and I still didn't deal with it very well.
I say before you can make a true statement, not only should you consider these things (coming from an Alaskan Native), but also check out A.C.C. and A.E.C.'s students.
I too wish they were Southern Baptist institutions...I have to ask myself...which is better? Sending a young man like Isaac to Wayland to fend for himself with limited academic skills and possibly limited coping skills....or, sending him to A.C.C. where he can slowly adjust and gain critical coping skills and at the same time beef up his academic skills...while being in a Christian environment. Don't knock it 'till you've been there and talked to the students and seen it is all I'm saying.
I'm Native and have lived in Alaska all my life. I come from the village and attended Universities, guys. I've been there and done that and see both sides of the coin.
Talk with John and Kim and see how it's benefited several of their kids. I wonder how many would've lasted at Wayland or Southern Seminary?
Just a Native's 2 cents here.
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