{"id":2190,"date":"2016-04-29T06:01:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2017-02-17T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:52:19","slug":"another-coffee-break-40-years-below-zero-part-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-40-years-below-zero-part-22\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: 40 YEARS BELOW ZERO, Part 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"307\" title=\"defaultblog1\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1-400x269.jpg 400w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1105px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-container reading-box-container-1\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#171717;--awb-margin-top:5px;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><div class=\"reading-box\" style=\"background-color:#f6f6f6;border-width:0px;border-color:#f6f6f6;border-top-width:3px;border-top-color:var(--primary_color);border-style:solid;\"><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-flex\"><h2>ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: 40 YEARS BELOW ZERO, Part 22<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div class=Section1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>April\n29, 2016<\/span><\/b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;\nline-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#984806'>Let's get right back to our ongoing adventure and pick up where\nwe left off last week.<\/span><\/b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;\nline-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><b\nstyle='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-no-proof:\nyes'><!--&#091;if gte vml 1&#093;><v:shapetype id=\"_x0000_t75\" coordsize=\"21600,21600\"\n o:spt=\"75\" o:preferrelative=\"t\" path=\"m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe\" filled=\"f\"\n stroked=\"f\">\n <v:stroke joinstyle=\"miter\"\/>\n <v:formulas>\n  <v:f eqn=\"if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0\"\/>\n  <v:f eqn=\"sum @0 1 0\"\/>\n  <v:f eqn=\"sum 0 0 @1\"\/>\n  <v:f eqn=\"prod @2 1 2\"\/>\n  <v:f eqn=\"prod @3 21600 pixelWidth\"\/>\n  <v:f eqn=\"prod @3 21600 pixelHeight\"\/>\n  <v:f eqn=\"sum @0 0 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style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"495\" title=\"april22apic\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/april22apic.png\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/april22apic-200x116.png 200w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/april22apic-400x233.png 400w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/april22apic-600x349.png 600w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/april22apic-800x466.png 800w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/april22apic.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1105px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b\nstyle='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-no-proof:\nyes'><!&#091;endif&#093;><\/span><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'>\n  <o:p><\/o:p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The young school teacher, Richard (pictured above with shovel in hand), was typical of the young men who made it their business to come around as often as possible and help out in the various tasks Dad &amp; Mom had on hand to make things more efficient.\u00a0 The smile on Richard's face is the smile of a young man overjoyed at coming to know the Lord Jesus Christ personally.\u00a0 In the photo, they were digging a pit beside the church in order to bury a 250-gallon tank for fuel oil for heating both the church and the home.\u00a0 Fuel oil was brought in by barge, pumped into drums or tanks and then hauled throughout the community distributing as folks needed (and had pre-ordered).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In our last Coffee Break, I made mention of the rock wall or wainscoting that bordered the lower portion of the church at\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Saint Paul Island.\u00a0 In the photo to the right above, that rock work is very evident.\u00a0 The photo below (taken by Barbara Krizman of the Anchorage Daily News) shows the church and the home, along with Dad's radio towers and wind generator (more on this in a moment).<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-3 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"296\" title=\"april22bpic\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/april22bpic.png\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/april22bpic-200x73.png 200w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/april22bpic-400x146.png 400w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/april22bpic-600x219.png 600w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/april22bpic-800x292.png 800w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/april22bpic.png 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1105px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1-3 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b\nstyle='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-no-proof:\nyes'><!&#091;endif&#093;><\/span><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'>\n  <o:p><\/o:p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Electricity  on the island was an expensive commodity -- not unlike it was in Barrow where  we paid .42\/KWH.&nbsp; At 42 cents for every thousand watts of electricity  consumed, it was not uncommon to see electric bills of $600 - $1,000 every  month.&nbsp; Dad was in every way a conservationist.&nbsp; Despite every effort  to conserve power in the most diligent manner, he rarely saw an electric bill  of less than $400.&nbsp; The island had a huge diesel generator which it used  to supply power to the homes, but with the cost of imported fuel and  maintenance to that generator, the community did well to break even with its  costs of operation -- even charging ever-increasing rates for electricity. <\/p>\n<p>In  1978, while I was in Barrow, I came across an opportunity to purchase wind  generators for a fairly reasonable price.&nbsp; An electrician friend in Barrow  was the first one to purchase one of these 3500 watt wind generators and  install it at his home.&nbsp; Despite a price tag of roughly $12,500 shipped in  and installed, the generator paid for itself the first year -- and Barrow has a  fraction of the winds Saint Paul enjoys. <\/p>\n<p>In  a conversation with my father one day on the telephone, we were talking about  his high costs of electricity and I mentioned the savings my electrician friend  was seeing (and his had only been operational for about three months).&nbsp;  Dad seized on the idea immediately and asked me to get one for him.&nbsp; About  six weeks later, his generator was delivered. <\/p>\n<p>Because  the island has wind speeds pretty consistently in the 17 - 25 knot range, and  is almost entirely made up of volcanic material, the wind carries scoria  (volcanic ash and dust particles).&nbsp; It has the effect of sandpaper on just  about everything.&nbsp; Metal deteriorates rapidly when exposed unless  constantly treated with a highly-resistant paint on a regular basis.&nbsp;  Steel or aluminum towers can disintegrate and topple within three to five years  unless they are constantly treated. <\/p>\n<p>Dad  was already experiencing problems with his main radio tower, and he had used a  couple of 60 or 70-foot telephone poles to string his &quot;inverted vee&quot;  antennas because they easily outlasted the aluminum.&nbsp; He decided to  construct a 50-foot tower for the wind generator out of 2x12 lumber and  laminate it with fiberglass.&nbsp; With a built-in ladder and easily removable  work platform at the top, it made installation of the wind generator simple,  and easy to maintain. <\/p>\n<p>He  wired the generator in such a way that when the wind blew and he wasn't using  the entire output of the generator -- which was most of the time -- it ran the  electric meter from the city backward.&nbsp; That first year of operation, the  generator not only paid for itself, his electricity was free; and at the end of  the year, he got back some $400 from the city.&nbsp; They paid him the going  rate for all of the excess electricity he furnished to the city power grid. <\/p>\n<p>It  was in the winter of 1976-1977 that I was in the process of moving back to  Alaska (from Long Beach, California) in order to bring CBN's operations and the  ministry of the 700 Club to the state.&nbsp; CBN had authorized me to do this,  but also advised me that they had no funds available to help me with the  project.&nbsp; Dad and I were talking on the phone (Ham radio patch, of course)  one day and he suggested that I should come to Saint Paul Island and trap foxes  with him.&nbsp; Arctic Blue foxes abounded on the island, and the fur pelts  they yielded were of premium quality.&nbsp; He had sold his furs at the Seattle  Fur Exchange, bringing (in the previous years) anywhere from $35 to $50 per fox  pelt. <br \/>\n  Dad  had been trying his hand at trapping during the previous two years with some  good results.&nbsp; He suggested that if we worked together at it, we could  likely bring in a good season and provide the necessary funds to get things  started.&nbsp; Despite growing up in the arctic, I'd never trapped before but  it sounded like a great way to generate some startup capital. <\/p>\n<p>I  arrived on Saint Paul Island in late August -- a bit early to begin the fox  trapping season, but Dad wanted to expand the size of the house and add a  garage to house the burgeoning motorcycle and three-wheeler business.&nbsp;  That gave us a few weeks to pour a concrete foundation for the expansion and  build the garage.&nbsp; The house was already &quot;L&quot; shaped, and the  garage would fit nicely squaring the house.&nbsp; My previous assistance in  building with Dad made it a breeze for us to work together since I knew exactly  his building methodologies and techniques and were able to get the garage  built, enclosed, insulated and prepped to house some 30 motorcycles,  three-wheelers and the pickup truck. <\/p>\n<p>By  late September, we headed out across the island to locate the fox dens and  begin setting out bait minus traps in order to establish places where the foxes  would feed regularly.&nbsp; A week later we set out approximately 30  traps.&nbsp; Our first trip to check the traps yielded a dozen foxes or  so.&nbsp; We found some additional places to set traps at the same time -- a  process that increased every few days or so until we had more than 50 traps set  out. <\/p>\n<p>So  long as there was no snow on the ground, getting the foxes was a pretty easy  task.&nbsp; About three weeks into the trapping, however, a blizzard hit the  island burying everything in some two feet of snow.&nbsp; You'd think that  would make things more difficult, but the truth is that one develops a  trapper's instinct, and finding the traps turned out to be a whole lot easier  than I imagined. <\/p>\n<p>Catching  foxes involved a whole lot more than just taking them out of the traps and  bringing dead foxes home.&nbsp; Each fox had to be skinned and the pelt treated  with corn meal (it sounds strange, I know, but the corn meal removed the oils  and blood from the bait the foxes had eaten), and then stretched out on a  specially made rack to dry.&nbsp; Every day we brought home foxes from the  traps meant our work wasn't done until the fox was skinned, the pelt treated  and allowed to breathe prior to drying on a rack. <\/p>\n<p>The  trapping day began around 10:00 in the morning and generally ended around 11:00  PM or thereabouts depending on the number of pelts needing to be dealt  with.&nbsp; Each pelt took approximately three days to prep for the drying  racks.&nbsp; Those drying racks had to be anchored to the house roof top in  order to prevent other animals from taking them. <\/p>\n<p>Over  a period of some six weeks to two months, we tramped the length and breadth of  Saint Paul Island more times than&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;I can  count.&nbsp; Most of the time, we would take either a snow machine with a sled  attached or Dad's pickup truck to haul the bait and bring back the foxes, and  the snow machine or pickup (the choice of vehicle somewhat depended on the  prevailing weather conditions) would be parked at some central location from  which we could work. <\/p>\n<p>In  mid-January of 1977, we were caught in a blizzard that could have been deadly  for both of us.&nbsp; There had been a fresh snowstorm the previous night, and  the snow was quite dry and powdery.&nbsp; We'd been enjoying our trapping  during the morning and retrieval of foxes from traps.&nbsp; We were working out  on the far northeast end of the island near some cliffs that rise straight up  from the water's edge some 90 - 120 feet when without warning the winds came  up.&nbsp; Naturally, the sea was frozen over by this time of year, and jagged  ice bergs lay at the bottom of the cliffs.&nbsp; The loose, powdery snow filled  the air creating white-out conditions which totally obscured our vision.&nbsp;  I couldn't see five feet in front of my face. <\/p>\n<p>If  I bent over, I could see tracks in the snow banks leading back towards the snow  machine; and I began to retrace my steps.&nbsp; The snow was blowing so  furiously that it soon filled in the old footprints leaving me completely  directionless.&nbsp; I called out to Dad, but the wind prevented him from  hearing me.&nbsp; He was calling me with the same result.&nbsp; We were  probably not more than a hundred feet apart and had no clue where the other  was. <\/p>\n<p>I  stopped totally still in my tracks knowing that if I got too far away from the  original path I'd taken, going over the cliff was a very distinct possibility  -- or more accurately, a real probability.&nbsp; I just stood there for a  minute and prayed.&nbsp; &quot;Father, I need direction.&nbsp; Which way do I  head?&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The  Holy Spirit quickly communicated a change in the way I was headed, and I just  began walking...Ummm...trudging or wading through knee-deep and sometimes  thigh-deep snow -- albeit completely blinded by the white-out.&nbsp; After  about fifteen or twenty minutes of this, I suddenly found myself about ten feet  from the snow machine.&nbsp; The winds began to subside so I hollered out for  Dad. <\/p>\n<p>He'd  pretty much done what I'd done, and the Holy Spirit had likewise led him  directly to the snow machine.&nbsp; I saw his form emerge from the diminishing  white-out perhaps twenty or twenty-five feet away.&nbsp; The entire cliff area  -- a major portion of our trapping area -- was still enveloped in white-out  conditions, so we stopped our endeavor for the day and slowly traveled with the  snow machine back towards town. <\/p>\n<p>It  wouldn't be the last time we would encounter such conditions, but we were  better prepared the next time it happened.&nbsp; By the end of the first week  of February, the main part of the trapping effort had ended and the time had  come to finish prepping the fox pelts for shipment to Seattle and sale at the  Fur Exchange. <\/p>\n<p>When  we began to actually count our furs -- the ones we shipped off to Seattle,  anyway -- we had 208 Arctic Blues, 18 white foxes, and 4 large red fox  pelts.&nbsp; The first of the fur auctions took place in March.&nbsp; When the  fur buyers surveyed our Arctic Blues, the bidding quickly brought the price up,  and those fox furs alone (not counting the whites and reds) brought an average  of more than $50 per pelt.&nbsp; It was the highest price the Seattle Fur  Auction had seen for Arctic Blue foxes in I don't know how long.&nbsp; After  expenses and commissions paid to the Fur Exchange, we still netted more than  $11,000 from the sale of all the furs. <\/p>\n<p>That  was the seed money that began CBN's ministry in Alaska -- seed that resulted in  the salvation of more people than I&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;can  count or remember, never mind those who were healed, set free of demonic  spirits, and filled with the Holy Spirit.&nbsp; Not too ironically, the  television station at Saint Paul Island was the first station I was part of  building, of all the stations we built to air television programming for the  remote villages, and it was the first place to air the 700 Club in  Alaska.&nbsp; Pretty appropriate, don't you think, considering that Saint Paul  Island was the place from which those fox furs came? <\/p>\n<p>Guess  this is where we need to leave it for today. <\/p>\n<p><strong>I remind<\/strong>&nbsp;those of you in need of ministry that our  Healing Prayer Call takes place on the first Monday of each month at 7:00 PM  Eastern (4:00 PM Pacific). &nbsp;Our call-in number is&nbsp;(712) 775-7035.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Access Code is:&nbsp;323859#.&nbsp; For Canadians who have difficulty  getting in to this number, you can call&nbsp;(559) 546-1400.&nbsp; If someone answers and asks what your original call-in  number was, you can give them the 712 number and access code. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, in  case you are missing out on real fellowship in an environment of Ekklesia, our  Sunday worship gatherings are available by conference call \u2013 usually at about  10:45AM Pacific.&nbsp; That conference number is&nbsp;(605) 562-3140, and the access code is&nbsp;308640#.&nbsp; We hope to make these gatherings available by Skype or  Talk Fusion before long.&nbsp; If you miss the live call, you can dial&nbsp;(605) 562-3149, enter the same access code and listen in  later. <\/p>\n<p>B<strong>lessings  on you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div 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