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 FNBC
Ministry of David
and Marci Joseph.
The FNBC is a congregation of believers from
several different native Alaskan groups: Inuit,
Inupaq, Aleutic, and Athabascan. David and Marci
provide the main leadership of the church. Tim
and Larissa help with the youth. Pat Huff
is an ordained native minister, and his wife Lisa
helps lead music. A number of others are involved
with helping to lead specific classes or to play
music during service, to guide testimonies, collect
offerings, and so forth. The aim is always
to raise more native Alaskans to positions of leadership
and get them involved in directing the ministries
of their church.
Nick and Meghan are involved
in the church in a variety of ways. Nick often
plays guitar with the other instrumentalists, and
during the week he helps with janitorial chores
and various odd jobs required to help wrap aspects
of construction or physical maintenance of the church.
He's been spending most of his time so far
on finishing some painting and sealing of a couple
portions of the church structure. He is also
part of the sermon corps. Meghan helps with
getting the church ready before service and acts
as the back-up teacher for the two-to-three-year-olds'
children's church. Together, we also help
clean the church up before Sunday service, mainly
by helping with mopping floors and taking trash
out to the transfer site.
This is a slow season for
native congregations, because summer is the time
to be out in Alaska, something especially important
to native people -- and especially those from the
village, who are still part of a long tradition
of hunting and gathering cycles. Soon, sometime
after the start of Moose Season and as the cold
begins to settle in, people will return to church
and the native congregation will become more active
nad fully engaged with the church itself. In
the mean time, it's a fluctuating, if very dedicated
and devoted congregants in the church..
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Fairbanks Native Bible Church
