The Ohio Independent Baptist, October 1964

A fter long, hard • trip • • • • m1ss1onar1es 1n By Verne and Helen Kirby Greeting from Ala ka ! Several per on have a ked u to give the de– tail of our trip to Ala ka. Perhap thi di ary log will be intere ting to }'OU . July 22 - We left Pro pect, Ohio, on a hot , humid d·ay. Our car wa loaded with a pa~ked carrier on top. a full trunk, and boxe in the back eat with pillow on top which erved a a bed for the children. R,ain in the afternoon brought relief to the warm traveler . Three of the children were in the bed in ,the back se,at while Mommie, D addy, and a nother child occupied the front eat . We held a ervice at Carpenter vil le, Ill. in the evening. Jul y 23 - We enjoyed the ho - pitality of the Gerald Titu e . It ':a good to ee their new church being con tructed. We traveled into Wi con– s1n and pent the night ,at Meno- • mon1e. Jul y 24 - The breakfast roll thait Grandma had made for u ta ted good a we ate our breakfa t in the motel room. Lunoh wa eaten in the car as we were traveling, and about 5 o'clock we topped at a park and cooked egg and bacon. We ate ome of the fresh vegetable from Grand– pa Kirby's garden. Al o we had bread, cookie and chocolate milk. At night we topped at Lake Bron on , Minn . All of u~ quite tired beoau~e we had tr aveled 13 hour th at day in a small , crowded ca r . Jul y 25 - Verne's birthday wa~ tod ay and he celebra ted it without cake and ice crean1 . A usual, we ate Oltr breakfa t in ot1r motel room near l_ar1cas tcr , Minn . After a few n1il e~ "''e crossed the anad1an border . It \\-'a fun ea ting ~oup and fr e~h vege– tables at a ca r11ping area th at ni ght . e kept tr}' i11g to f ind a rnotel tha t ui ted our pocke tbook and f inall ) at I I :3 (J J . 111. w c f o LI nd onc at V\ 1 ls I), an~da. J ul) 26 - We on l)' trav~ lcc.l f ive l10L1r Loda\' l1ecausc it was Ltnd a)-'. " Vile held lJr ovl11 l1urch ervice and Ii tenet1 t th 111c sage on ot1r rad io. \>./ 1 11 t t l l n i g ll t a t Sa ka t l 11 , anada . J u I> 27 - lJ r b r c: a k ( as l 1 ~ i l c: d f cold · r aJ, \\fl l1iol1 " ' at in the 11'1 . f a i 11 e 11 111(. t f t l1 d d} , 1:11 a i I g i t J a n d 111 t r t a l'l I c: TH OHI O IND PENDENT BAPTIST Alaska jn the car. We topped at a motel in Edmonton, anada, where we on– ly had to pay 9.00 for a room with a refrigerator 1and tove. We bought son1e hamburger and cooked our SL1pper in the motel room. Jul y 28 - The egg and bacon we cooked in our room melled and ta ted very good. Lunch ait a camp– in,g place con ,i ted of a andwich and ome oanned dirink . That night in D aw on Creek anada we looked the town over . Thi i the beginning of the Ala ka Hi -Way (Mile 0). Jul y 29 Aifter toa t and cocoa in our room we went to a grocer y tore to buy ome grocerie . Peo,ple warned u that food wou ld be ex– pen ive on the Al a ka Hi -Way. We met a hri tian n1 an ait a g,a ta- li on on the H·i-Way. When we topped that night at Fort Nel on Verne not iced nhat one of the ra,:k on the luggage carri er w·a bent . He fixed it at ,a ervice taition . Ju ly 30 - The motel room had a tove, o we had pancake and cocoa for breakif,a t. We traveled in Briti h Columbi a ·and the Yukon . Some people paid 80 cent a quart for milk but we found ome for 60 cent . We pent ·the night at Wat on Lake on the Ala k,a Hi– way. Jul y 31 - We made a ign , ROG R , K NTU KY and left it with a ll the other .. ign at Wat on Lake . LaVerne wa ick a ll day with an up et t rnach . We finall y got a place to leep, after l oking all over Wh itehor e. AugL1 t l - hi , i our foLtrlh day on the gravel ro ,1d of the Al ,t') ka Hi-way. The wind h1elc.l go t one ~n1 alI cr ack a a r tilt of fl y1ng gr ave l fro111 a pa ing ca r . Wc pe r1t the night at cotty ( ~reek. la ka r he owner of the 111o tcl kne\\ a nL1111l1c1 ot o t1r Bapti \ l I 1tl- M i,"1on '\ 111is~ior1a r1e\ 1 n Al a~ k.a. ugtl'.. t 2 - llrca "-f aS't in c)t ll r11 otcl roon1 anti lu11\; }1 at a C,ltllfJ– si te 'A< Cr e intcrc, t1ng e pcrie11cc\ l e.) t fay. ll1e bc,1u t1fL1l s nt)\.\' t<l l)f)Ctl 111c.>L1nt ains, \.\ 1 ilc.t fie.)\\ ers tall s1 rt1ce t re ·s, Ia k~s a1 tl a l o\fC 1 \ su 11sc t rc – n1 i11c.led Lt ' c>f Ll1c fa t tl1at \V ,, r · vie,, jng 1}1 r ugge I s c11it: l)eattl ' llf >llf' last t flln l icr tl1 4<)tJ1 talt , Al c1\ ka . During our tr ave l\ in the afternoon we ~aw two n100 c. At about I l o'cloc k we founJ a mo tel ,a,t Et1rek 1 a. Augu t 3 - We a r r i v e d in Anchorage and got a glimp e of the All-American ciity. I t i imilar to other citie through which we had traveled. We found ,a place to ea t that adverti , ed hamburger s at 29 cent and milk hake for 29 cen1t . On the Ala ka Hi-way we had no– ticed that h1an11bL1rger . old for $ 1. We were very hungry for fri e~I ohicken o we ate fri e(i c hi cken whi le other ate hamburger . We found the Dale Davi e (Bapti t Mid– Mi ion mi ionarie ) at Spenard and ,pent the nigh,t with nhem. Part of the Redmond fa111il y ( al o Bapti -- t Mid-M i 1 ion. mi ionarie. ) w e r e there too. Augu~t 4 - We rea~hed our de5- tination at Anchor Poin,t at about 6: 30. We drove on to Homer to pend everal night · with the Jack 00 1 per . We are lo·oking for a place to live at Anchor Point. No thing i~ avai lab le, o it look. a thottgh we w i11 have to buy a traiIer. Wc ap– prec iate your prayer o mu ch. The daily urpni e package from the Stanley Kirby meant a lot to the chi ldren. The d,aily devotional n1e - age and letter from the ho111e ohurch ( alvary Bapti t at Broad – way. Ohio) were a rea l in pira ti on to tt . Thi i one f ~he bLt ' ie t tin12\ f ,the year for the peo pl e in th i area . Fi hing i one of the n1ain . ource of their incon1e. A couple of month. fi hing in the Ltn1n1er pr vide their inco111e f r the )'ea r. • Right now the aln1 n run. arc 1n fLtll progre. . and thi i. the n1a1n fi h th at pr vide an 1n n1e. At the Anchor P int chttr h "' c had two per n\ pre. cnt hc~iJ e'i tl1e Kirby f a111 il . There is a \\ ork t t1 he J nc 1n Lht '> area . o pra\ th al l 1t)~I will leatl anti gu1Llc J.>r,\\ tt)r u-.. c.lai l}. th at \.\ C r11a} he ,1hl~ ll) rc,t 11 prt>:io tt \ ,otd~ t )r ( ' hr 1,t ' l' he , ra11(l ( '111 \ t)Il ,..., t~)1 t, t 1, c n1inl1t(', trc 111 LL1, ,\ 11gl:lc, h\ Jct Frt>r11 JI.()()() f ('c l at 5 . l) 111tlt~, 1)\.~1 hour. it '" , t tll ~i,1 i11111c,,1,t~ ,1gl1t . 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