{"id":4760,"date":"2007-07-02T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:55:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:55:59","slug":"another-coffee-break-40-years-below-zero-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-40-years-below-zero-i\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: 40 YEARS BELOW ZERO I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jul 2, '07<\/st1:date> 6:40 PM<\/st1:time><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n<\/nobr>\n\n

Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning!<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Today's title is somewhat a takeoff from a book published\nsome 50-odd years ago.<\/span> \nCharles<\/span> Brower, who was a famous whaling captain, explorer and trader\nback in the late 1800's and early 1900's (and who was instrumental in the\nestablishing of a trading post at the farthest north point in Alaska, Barrow)\ndid an adventure biography titled, 50 Years Below Zero.<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Since my folks spent that much time and more in the north,\nand Dad specifically spent some 42+ years ministering in native communities\n(Mom spent more than 55), I thought I might borrow the title idea from Charles Brower.<\/span>  I<\/span> trust the reading\nof this piece will be as fascinating for you as Charles Brower's book was for\nme.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Let's see.<\/span> \nWhat<\/span> do we have in the French Press today?<\/span> \nOh, yeah.<\/span>  Double Roasted French blended with a\nbit of robust Sulawesi.<\/span>  Hey!<\/span> \nThat'll light up your eyeballs.<\/span>  Picked up some\nof those cinnamon rolls from Mrs. Cinnabon's<\/span> too.<\/span>  They're not really as good as Eileen's, but I'm\ngoing to get some of Eileen's in a couple of weeks -- I hope!<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

In Part 3 of the series titled,<\/span> <\/span>ALVIN\nCAPENER<\/span><\/i><\/b>, I scanned lightly over the events\nthat followed the stupendous fishing miracle, but alluded to some phenomenal\nevents that transpired during the building of the churches and establishing of\nministries throughout the arctic.<\/span> \nWe<\/span> really need to pick up with our arrival in <\/span>Nome<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in November,\n1944.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

One detail that I erred in was that we spent the winter of\n1944 getting established in Nome -- not actually building the new church building.<\/span>  I<\/span> realized after\nI'd already published Part 3 that the Alaska Steamship's last sailing for Nome\nwould have been in September, and there simply wouldn't have been enough time\nfor Dad to have gotten the supplies on the ship to build that fall.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Dad did secure a piece of property on the main road that\ncame into Nome from what was then March Air Force Base, roughly a city block\nfrom the Nome Public School.<\/span>  The spring and\nearly summer of 1945 were spent preparing the ground for building the church.<\/span>  Construction in the far north has always\nbeen an interesting proposition.<\/span>  Either you\nuse a hot steam rig to thaw the ground sufficiently to drive piling in anywhere\nfrom six to nine feet (more in some places), or -- if you are on the arctic\ncoast -- prepare a set of pads approximately three feet square laminated out of\n2 X 12's, and put your foundation posts on those pads, on top the ground.<\/span>  (That's the way we built in Barrow,\nWainwright, Point Hope and Barter Island -- and later at Nuiqsut<\/span>\nand Atqasuk<\/span>.)<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

I was shy of my fourth birthday when construction of the\nchurch began in Nome, so I got to watch -- NOT swing a hammer.<\/span>  Hehehehehe<\/span><\/span>....... \nThe building supplies -- along with a year's supply of groceries (basic\nstaples, of course, not fresh food) -- arrived by Alaska Steamship in late July\nor early August.<\/span>  Dad had one or two helpers\nfrom the community who weren't really carpenters, but they were able to help\nhim swing foundation timbers into place and help get the basic flooring in\nplace.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Building a church in Nome, Alaska in the 1940's meant a\nlot of improvising and coming up with ways to keep costs down while still\ncoming up with a structure that would withstand the elements.<\/span> \nDad decided to do something that -- so far as he knew -- had never been done before.<\/span>  He'd seen brick construction, of course,\nwith the staggered bricks which provided strength and stability to walls.<\/span>  With WWII just coming to an end, certain\nbuilding supplies were in short supply.<\/span>  What\nwas plentiful were 2 X 4's.  So Dad decided on brick-like construction\nusing 2 X 4's and laminating them together as he went.<\/span> \nIt provided virtually air-tight walls.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

One problem.<\/span> \nWhen<\/span> there are just two or perhaps three people working, your\nconstruction project doesn't move along at breakneck speed.<\/span> \nTime was of the essence in getting the building up before the snow began to fly.<\/span>  The roof had to be tarred to make it\nwater-proof, but you can't pour and spread tar in freezing temperatures.<\/span> \nHe had a very few weeks at most to get the building up, enclosed, and the roof\ntarred.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

With the flooring in place, the month of August nearing an\nend, and snow expected by mid-September, he faced a humanly-impossible task.<\/span>  A transport with a half-dozen soldiers from\nMarch Air Force Base (in those days, airmen were part of the U. S. Army Air\nForce: it wasn't separated from the Army and called the Air Force until 1947<\/i>)\nwere driving by one afternoon on break.<\/span>  They'd\nbeen to the local taverns and were feeling no pain.<\/span> \nSeeing Alvin Capener<\/span> working on this church building,\nthey decided to stop and offer assistance.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Smelling the alcohol on them didn't particularly lend\ntheir offer any real credence, but Dad was undaunted.<\/span>  "<\/span>Do any of you have carpentry experience?"\nhe asked.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

"Sure," they replied.<\/span>  "<\/span>That's what we are doing at March Air Force Base."<\/span>  Wow!<\/span><\/span> \nJust like that!<\/span>  "We're due back and have\nto report for duty, but we'll be here tomorrow to help," they said.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

You know how it is with people who are alcoholics?<\/span> \nWhen they're inebriated, they often say things they'll promptly forget.<\/span>  These guys were soused.<\/span> \nDad had no idea if he'd see them again, but sure enough, they showed up the\nnext morning, tools in hand.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Their commanding officer, Air Force Colonel Marvin "Muktuk<\/span>" Marston<\/span>, was a\nlegend in his own right.<\/span> \nHe'd<\/span> been a miner in northern Ontario, moved to the U.S. and enlisted to\nfight in WWI.  His record in WWI was one of distinction, but also of controversy.<\/span>  He was known as a "doer, not a\ntalker," and frequently cut corners to get things done.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

When Ernest Gruening<\/span> became the\nTerritorial Governor of Alaska, he'd heard of Marston's<\/span>\nexploits (though theoretically retired from the military, Marston<\/span>\nhad re-enlisted to fight in WWII, and his familiarity with arctic conditions\ncommended him to Gruening<\/span>) and lobbied in 1939 to get\nMarston<\/span> assigned to put together a "tundra\nArmy" using native Eskimos.<\/span>  The success\nof that "Scout Battalion" became legendary.<\/span> \nWhen his military superiors were slow in providing them with rifles, Marston<\/span> commandeered a dog team and drove that team under\ninhuman conditions to Fort Richardson, got the rifles himself and returned --\nagain, by dog team -- through blizzard conditions to Alaska's western coast to\nsupply his men with rifles.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

This story isn't supposed to be about Marvin Marston<\/span>, but if you want some fascinating reading, go to: http:\/\/www.alaskool.org\/projects\/ak_military\/men_of_tundra\/men_of_tundra.htm<\/a>.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

My point is that Colonel Marston<\/span>\ncame driving past the construction site where Dad was directing these\nsoldier-carpenters a day (or perhaps a couple of days) after they'd begun helping.<\/span>  "What the ____ are you doing?" he\nsaid.<\/span>  (Marston's<\/span>\nspeech was always peppered with colorful metaphors!)<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Dad walked over and explained.<\/span>  Marston<\/span><\/span> began to hee-haw.<\/span>  "You're going to build this church and\nhave it enclosed by the time the snow flies?"<\/span> \nAlready being versed in having command of the weather, Dad made a bold\ndeclaration -- a prophecy, if you will.<\/span> \n"The Lord has been with us in this endeavor all the way," he said,\n"and the snow will not fly until we have this building enclosed and the\nroof tarred."<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

"Well I'll be ___ _____, " he<\/span>\nexploded.<\/span>  "You're NEVER going to make\nthat goal."<\/span>  He stopped for a minute, then\nresumed.<\/span>  "<\/span>Even\nif I were to assign these men the task of helping you see this to conclusion,\nit's simply not possible!<\/span>  There's too much to\ndo, and too little time before the snow flies."<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Dad repeated himself.<\/span>  "<\/span>The snow will not fly until we have this\nbuilding enclosed."<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Though he never talked much about it, and I don't recall\nhis ever preaching on it, he clearly understood the authority of the believer.<\/span>  He<\/span> KNEW without\nquestion that when God orders something, He stands behind it 100%.  That\nmeans that whatever you have to do, and whatever you have to say to implement\nthe authority and power of God to accomplish what He's given you, you do it!<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Dad frequently quoted Hebrews 10:38:<\/span> <\/span>"Now the just shall live by faith, but if any man draw<\/span> back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him."<\/span> <\/span><\/i><\/b> Faith\nwasn't some mysterious, ethereal religious thing to him: it was nothing more\ncomplicated than believing whatever God says and then acting on it.<\/span>  That's exactly how Alvin Capener<\/span>\nlived and worked.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

"Right," said Marston.<\/span> \n"Tell you what I'm gonna<\/span> do.<\/span> \nI'm assigning these soldiers to stay with you until the snow flies.<\/span>  I dare you to complete this construction in\nthat time.<\/span>  You've only got days -- maybe two\nweeks at most before the snow flies, and more than a month's worth of work to finish.<\/span>  It can't be done.<\/span> \nYou owe these men their wages if you don't make it before the snow flies.<\/span>  You make it on time, and their pay is on the\nU.S. Army, compliments of Uncle Sam."<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\nLaminated 2x4 wall construction of the church in NomeTwo<\/span> of the soldiers helping Alvin Capener<\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

They did it in eleven days.<\/span>  That<\/span> building went together in record time.<\/span>  Those six soldiers were there every single day\nlike clockwork, working from sunup to sundown.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\n <\/o:p>\u00c2  Marston's<\/span> men, Dad &\nMe in front of our temporary "home.".<\/span> The\nchurch in the summer of 1946 with the siding finished.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Dad had to wait until the following summer to put siding\non the building, but the church was open and worship services were being\nconducted that winter of 1945-1946.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Our family often talked about the way that God took\nadvantage of Colonel Marston's<\/span> dare.<\/span>  He<\/span> had enough brass and guts to keep his word --\nnever mind if it fit within the framework his command of the forces in western Alaska.\u00c2<\/span>  Marston<\/span> was a bold,\ndaring individual, and his lack of concern for strict military protocol often\ncrossed swords with his superior officers, but he was there strategically at a\ncritical moment in time.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Those soldiers who worked so hard with Dad took Marston's<\/span> dare as a personal challenge to them and their abilities.<\/span>  Before<\/span> it was\nover, Dad had led most, if not all of them, to a personal commitment to Jesus Christ.<\/span>  Two of those men maintained their contact\nwith Dad and Mom for many years thereafter, even after we had left Nome and\nheaded to Barrow.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Despite the Colonel's often cross-wise nature with the\nmilitary command, God honored him in the years that followed, and Colonel\nMarvin "Muktuk<\/span>" Marston<\/span>\neventually became Brigadier General Marston.<\/span>  Schools<\/span> and government facilities throughout <\/span>Alaska<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> bear his\nname to this day.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

On Wednesday, I'll share with you some of the stories of\nindividuals whose lives were changed by that first ministry that Dad & Mom\npioneered -- people who went on thereafter in their own right to become\ninfluential in bringing change to Alaska's landscape and setting the stage for\na move of the Holy Spirit in the years to follow.<\/span>  That<\/span> move of the Spirit would easily rival anything\nyou'll read in the book of Acts.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

We'll keep today's Coffee Break a bit shorter than some.<\/span>  For<\/span> me to launch into\nsome of the stories I need to share would make this piece quite long; and this\nis a good stopping place today.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Lack is not supposed to be everlasting: it is a temporary\nsituation until you can grow some Word seed to meet the need.<\/span> \nGod has given us the two things we need to get whatever we desire: Dominion and\nSeed.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

Bless you.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n

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