Kodiak Baptist Mission

[Haruo]

Our preacher this morning was Trevor Jones, Director of the . (accent on the í) were great, Evangelia played with North in the Family Room, etc etc.

KBM was founded in 1893, a year after Fremont Baptist Church, and for many years was primarily an orphanage, then a residential program for troubled teens, and now a day program for younger kids (they serve about 200 kids) and a food bank. Apparently it was set up after Kodiak was assigned to the Baptists by , a Presbyterian-Federal education and human services official (Presby missionary from 1877, and Alaska's first General Agent of Education from 1885). KBM also carries on an outreach to the nearby village of . The specific Baptist organization that raised the initial funding to establish the mission, and that carries on support activities to this day, was the Women's Society of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, now . Fremont Baptist women have had a long history of quilt-making, soup-label collection and other activities in support of KBM. Mabel Brockhoff, our White Cross and Quiltmaking person, invited Trevor to speak to us.

[David Flick]

[Haruo]

That's neat, David. I hope you're around long enough to administer New Testament Believer's Baptism to Calvin! I don't think Jesus Namehota is one of the songs I've posted mp3s of on Fremont's website, but I'll try to rectify that soon.

Here's one last Kodiak link, their .