{"id":5632,"date":"2021-05-07T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=5632"},"modified":"2021-05-02T06:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T06:44:32","slug":"another-coffee-break-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: TRANSFORMATION"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May 7, 2021<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Good Morning, all you blessed people!\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m at work in a new series, and not quite\r\nfinished with it yet.\u00a0 <\/span>That said, For the\r\nnext few weeks, I\u2019m going to bring back some Coffee breaks that were originally\r\nwritten, some as much as 14 years ago.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>These Coffee Breaks still carry a message to the body of Christ that is\r\nas valid today as it was 14 years ago.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n

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Let\r\nme share with you today, the story of a man whose life impacted me greatly, not\r\nto mention the lives of my parents.\u00a0 <\/span>In\r\nfact, Dad used to say that if it were not for this man, it is unlikely we\u2019d\r\nhave ever gone to Alaska.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The\r\nyear was 1891.\u00a0 <\/span>It was a hard winter \u2013\r\none of those kind of winters where it turns cold early and where, under normal\r\ncircumstances because of the cold temperatures, you tend to get less snow.\u00a0 <\/span>This winter was not one of the winters with\r\nless snow \u2013 especially on Wrangel Island.\u00a0\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Situated\r\nnearly 900 miles straight west of Barrow, Alaska in the Chukchi Sea, north of\r\nthe Siberian Peninsula, Wrangel Island was one of those remote places in the\r\nworld occupied only by the Inupiat \u2013 and then used only as a primary base from\r\nwhich to hunt seal, walrus and whales, catch the occasional Eider Duck and\r\nArctic Tern, and fish during the three or four months of the year when the\r\nrivers and lakes weren\u2019t frozen over.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Alaksurak\r\nand Kignak were husband and wife. (Don\u2019t try to pronounce their names, it\u2019ll\r\ndrive you crazy.\u00a0 <\/span>Our English spelling\r\nonly approximates the actual pronunciation.)\u00a0\r\n<\/span>They struggled for an existence in conditions that we would consider\r\nimpossible.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The\r\nwinter of 1891 was no exception.\u00a0 <\/span>Because\r\nof the early snow and hard freeze, Alaksurak had not been able catch enough\r\ngame to last him and his wife through the winter. By November, with the dark\r\nseason approaching quickly, his supply of fish and seal meat was running\r\nlow.\u00a0 <\/span>Finding the occasional caribou, or\r\nhunting the polar bear in those conditions was increasingly difficult.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Kignak\r\nwas expecting a child, and the day came when she gave birth.\u00a0 <\/span>Alaksurak returned from an unfruitful day of\r\nhunting for seal to find that he was a father.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>\u201cWe can\u2019t keep him,\u201d he said to Kignak.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>\u201cPut him in the snow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Eskimo\r\ntradition for centuries had demanded that if children were born into a world\r\nwhere there was an insufficient supply of food, they were considered\r\n\u201cextra.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>They were expendable.\u00a0 <\/span>One could always have more children later\r\nwhen conditions permitted.\u00a0 <\/span>Girls,\r\nespecially, were considered non-essential.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>Boys could grow up and begin hunting when they were six or seven years\r\nold, but girls\u2026..well, that was different.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>They were simply put out on the ice floes to freeze to death.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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(This\r\nis an aside from my story, but this is essentially how I came by my first\r\ndaughter, Deborah.\u00a0 <\/span>Her Eskimo mother\r\ncouldn\u2019t care for her and came to me before she was born, asking me if I would\r\nadopt her at birth.\u00a0 <\/span>My first reaction was\r\nto not adopt, but after the baby was born, the grandparents again approached me\r\nto adopt saying, \u201cshe\u2019s just extra.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>I\r\nadopted her when she was five months old.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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For\r\nKignak, the thought of putting her newborn son in the snow was absolutely\r\nintolerable.\u00a0 <\/span>Traditions aside, she felt\r\nthat this little boy was a gift from a God for whom she had great reverence,\r\nbut didn\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cPut\r\nhim in the snow,\u201d Alaksurak again demanded.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>\u201cWe have no food for him.\u00a0 <\/span>Better\r\nhe should freeze to death now than suffer starvation with us.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>It went against every native tradition, but\r\nKignak stood her ground.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cNo!\u00a0 <\/span>We will have enough food.\u00a0 <\/span>You will see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Thus\r\ndid a little boy come into this world who at first was given only one name,\r\nPatkotak.\u00a0 <\/span>Somehow, the family made it\r\nthrough that winter, and the next, and the next.\u00a0 <\/span>Patkotak was joined in life by more brothers,\r\nand they grew to become hunters like their father.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Surnames\r\nwere unnecessary in those days.\u00a0 <\/span>Everyone\r\nhad only one name.\u00a0 <\/span>It didn\u2019t matter,\r\nreally.\u00a0 <\/span>Because of the extreme\r\nconditions and incredibly hard life, average life expectancy ranged between 28\r\nand 35 years.\u00a0 <\/span>Anyone older than 35 was\r\nconsidered quite old!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As\r\nthe years went by, Alaksurak and Kignak took their family across the Chukchi\r\nSea toward Wainwright and Barrow, traveling by dog sled.\u00a0 <\/span>Barrow, it turned out, was a prime hunting ground.\u00a0 <\/span>As the farthest north tip of land on the\r\ncontiguous North American continent, it provided an ideal place for the\r\ncurrents in the Arctic Ocean to bring whales, walrus, ooguruk (a very large\r\nbearded seal) and other sea life.\u00a0 <\/span>It was\r\nthe path of natural migration for Eider Ducks and the Arctic Tern, both of\r\nwhich served as a staple in the diet of the Inupiat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In\r\nthe late 1890\u2019s, a Presbyterian missionary by the name of Sheldon Jackson made\r\nhis way to Barrow on one of the San Francisco-based\u00a0 <\/span>whaling ships that plied those waters in\r\nsearch of the bowhead or baleen whales.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>He established a mission at Barrow where the young Patkotak was exposed\r\nto the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the first time in his life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Sheldon\r\nJackson moved on to establish other missions, and called for Dr. Horatio Marsh\r\nand his wife to take the mission in Barrow.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>The Marshes established a public school and began to teach the children\r\nof the community to read, write, and learn basic arithmetic.\u00a0 <\/span>That wasn\u2019t easy, considering that \u2013 except\r\nfor the whalers who stopped occasionally \u2013 the language of the region was\r\nInupiat, or some other dialect of the Inuit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Mrs.\r\nMarsh became young Patkotak\u2019s first teacher, and taught him to speak\r\nEnglish.\u00a0 <\/span>One day she asked him, \u201cDo you\r\nhave any other name besides Patkotak?\u201d\u00a0\r\n<\/span>He said, \u2018No.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cThen we are going\r\nto name you after the apostle Paul.\u00a0 <\/span>From\r\nnow on, you will be known as Paul Patkotak.\u201d\u00a0\r\n<\/span>The name stuck, and in later years everyone would realize that it was\r\nprophetic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In\r\n1911, Paul began a trek south to sell a growing pile of valuable furs.\u00a0 <\/span>Traveling first by dog team, then by whaling\r\nship, and finally by one of the ships owned by the Seattle-based Alaska\r\nSteamship Company, he eventually made it to Seattle.\u00a0 <\/span>He had to trade some of his valuable Arctic\r\nBlue Fox furs for his transportation, but he still arrived with 14 pelts to\r\nsell.\u00a0 <\/span>At roughly $5.00 per pelt, that\r\nwould give him a fair amount of money, and he could exist for a long time on\r\nit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The\r\nChristian foundations that had been laid in his life by the Marshes now began\r\nto be built upon as he sat through two winters at what was then called Seattle\r\nFree Methodist Seminary (now Seattle Pacific University).\u00a0 <\/span>In 1913, he went to Portland where he\r\nhappened upon an Apostolic Faith mission.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>Here, he was exposed to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which had\r\nbegun at the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles in 1906.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The\r\ninfilling of the Holy Spirit set ablaze a passion for Jesus Christ and a\r\nburning desire to see salvation come to family and friends scattered from Cape\r\nPrince of Wales to Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories and even westward\r\nto campsites in the Amundsen Gulf.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Now\r\nabout 25 years old, Paul headed back north to share that fire burning within\r\nhim.\u00a0 <\/span>His immediate family and friends\r\nhad accepted Jesus Christ at the Presbyterian mission in Barrow, and they were\r\nglad to see his return.\u00a0 <\/span>They were not\r\nglad, however, to see that young Paul was a firebrand.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ve\r\nbecome a fanatic,\u201d they complained.\u00a0 <\/span>The\r\nMarshes were gone from Barrow, but other missionaries were there who had heard\r\nabout Paul from the Marshes.\u00a0 <\/span>They were\r\nglad to meet him, but puzzled by this unusual presence they felt with him.\u00a0 <\/span>When he opened his mouth to share the Gospel\r\nwith others in the Inupiat language, however, it was the first time many of\r\nthem had heard the message of salvation in their own tongue.\u00a0 <\/span>The new missionaries welcomed Paul as a\r\nfellow-minister of the Gospel despite the fact that he held no papers with any\r\norganization.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Paul\r\nfelt that the good news of Jesus Christ needed to get outside the four walls of\r\nthe church and looked for a place to begin preaching.\u00a0 <\/span>10 or 12 miles north of the village of Barrow\r\nwas a sand spit known as Point Barrow.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>It was a narrow strip of land that tailed out to the east where hunters\r\nliked to congregate.\u00a0 <\/span>It was a perfect\r\nspot to hunt birds.\u00a0 <\/span>So Paul set up a\r\ncampsite at Point Barrow where he began to preach the gospel to his\r\nfellow-Inupiat folks.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Everyone\r\nsmiled as he preached and nodded their heads in affirmation of his message, but\r\nfew actually responded to the invitation to accept Jesus Christ.\u00a0 <\/span>In the years that followed, he met a Canadian\r\nInuit woman named Ethel.\u00a0 <\/span>The love\r\nbetween them was nearly instantaneous, and they married soon thereafter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Now\r\nPaul had a companion, a counterpart, someone who loved him and loved the Lord\r\nJesus Christ as much as he did.\u00a0 <\/span>She\r\ndefied native convention, traveling with him as he went from village to\r\nvillage, campsite to campsite, preaching and teaching.\u00a0 <\/span>When she became pregnant, it was apparent that\r\nthey needed a more permanent home, and Ethel set up housekeeping for them in\r\nBarrow.\u00a0 <\/span>She went to work as a teacher\u2019s\r\naide \u2013 again defying native convention.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Paul\r\ncontinued his travels by dog team across the arctic coast, even reaching Banks\r\nIsland and Victoria Island in the far north arctic waters only a few hundred\r\nmiles from the North Pole.\u00a0 <\/span>Everywhere he\r\nwent, he preached, he prayed, he interceded, he invited folks to come to know\r\nJesus Christ.\u00a0 <\/span>And, for the most part,\r\npeople listened intently, clapped their hands when he finished preaching and\r\npraying for them, smiled cordially at his presentation, and ignored the message\r\nof salvation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In\r\nthe meantime, Ethel bore him five children, Billy, Simeon, Steven, Elizabeth\r\nand Olive.\u00a0 <\/span>Paul began to reduce the\r\namount of time he traveled from village to village in order to be with his\r\ngrowing family, but he continued his travels nonetheless.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Wainwright\r\nbecame home to Paul, Ethel and their children.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>The lack of response from the native community was discouraging, but he\r\ncontinued undaunted.\u00a0 <\/span>As his sons and\r\ndaughters became teenagers, they found themselves ridiculed by their\r\ngeneration.\u00a0 <\/span>Their father, after all, was<\/i><\/b>\r\nan odd duck among the Inupiat and the Inuit.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>Shamanism and witchcraft had been so much a part of their culture for\r\ncenturies that the message of Jesus Christ and deliverance from such demonic\r\nactivity was untenable.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The\r\ndemonic roots of shamanism were so ingrained in their DNA that they feared\r\nanything which took them away from it.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>Fear ruled the north.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The\r\nFear of Death, the Fear of Evil, the Fear of Man all pervaded the culture and\r\nlifestyle of the north.\u00a0 <\/span>The fact that\r\nPaul Patkotak exhibited none of those fears made him a person to be feared.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As\r\nthe years continued, Paul\u2019s children found that it was easier just to go along\r\nwith cultural tide and drifted into the practices of past generations.\u00a0 <\/span>Paul and Ethel were brokenhearted, but\r\nabsolutely determined that their children were going to know Jesus Christ as\r\nthey knew Him.\u00a0 <\/span>Eventually, Paul \u2013 now in\r\nhis fifties \u2013 restricted his travels from village to village, only traveling\r\nand preaching as he felt specifically instructed by the Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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1957\r\ncame and Paul was now past his 65th<\/sup> birthday.\u00a0 <\/span>Barrow had become our home.\u00a0 <\/span>Dad was enlarging the church built a couple\r\nyears before.\u00a0 <\/span>Someone else had finally\r\ncome to Barrow to preach that same message Paul had been preaching for years\r\nand years \u2013 the message that the infilling of the Holy Spirit as it occurred on\r\nthe day of Pentecost was still available to Christians in the same way, and\r\nwith the same demonstration as had occurred nearly 2,000 years before.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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I\u2019ve\r\nalready shared with you in a previous Coffee Break how the Holy Spirit was\r\npoured out in Barrow in a manner that rivaled anything you can read in the book\r\nof Acts.\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s now the late fall of 1957,\r\nand the move of the Holy Spirit is in full bloom.\u00a0 <\/span>Steven Patkotak, Paul\u2019s son, has been out\r\nhunting and as he returns to Barrow sees the shaft of light over the\r\nchurch.\u00a0 <\/span>His wife, Jane, has already been\r\nin those meetings.\u00a0 <\/span>She has no way to\r\ntell Steven what has happened to her and how she has been changed by the\r\npresence of the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The\r\nvisible display over the church drew Steven immediately.\u00a0 <\/span>He unloaded his dog sled of his hunting gear\r\nand game, and came straight to the church.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>That night, he too found the peace that had escaped him for most of his\r\nlife.\u00a0 <\/span>He found the same joy his father,\r\nPaul, had always displayed, always talked about, but he had never experienced\r\nbecause of his personal rebellion in his youth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Word\r\nspread to Wainwright, of course, of what had been happening.\u00a0 <\/span>Paul couldn\u2019t wait for a bush plane and\r\nharnessed his dog team.\u00a0 <\/span>Driving his dogs\r\nthe 94 miles from Wainwright, he arrived in Barrow in time for one of the\r\nevening meetings.\u00a0 <\/span>As he walked into the\r\nchurch and saw the place packed almost to the walls with people singing,\r\nrejoicing, praising God, the tears burst forth on his face like a geyser.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Once\r\nhe entered the church, he never stopped until he had stepped over people seated\r\non the floor to make his way to the front.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>He grabbed my father by the shoulders, hugged him and wept.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cBrother Capener!\u00a0 <\/span>Brother Capener!\u00a0 <\/span>You are the answer to forty years of prayer\r\nand intercession.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Watching\r\nPaul Patkotak hug my father that night and weep tears of unutterable joy, I had\r\nno idea of the foundations he had laid, nor the years he had labored with so\r\nlittle to show.\u00a0 <\/span>In the weeks, months,\r\nand years that followed, Paul shared with us how he had prayed, how he had\r\npreached, how he had traveled across the arctic slope to share the message of\r\nsalvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Paul\r\nhad a simple, but very profound faith.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>He had the goods to back his faith.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>Paul Patkotak had been transformed some 40 years before from a young man\r\nsteeped in shamanism in a culture of fear to a man vibrant in his faith and\r\nconfidence toward Jesus Christ.\u00a0 <\/span>Though\r\nfew listened to him during those years he traveled and preached, and though\r\neven fewer still responded to his message of faith and power, he never once\r\nlost sight of the need for the transforming life in Christ among his\r\npeople.\u00a0 <\/span>He never ceased to pray and\r\nintercede daily for his family, for his friends, and for people who dotted the\r\nnorthland.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Paul\r\nPatkotak was a modern-day apostle Paul.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>Once the spiritual dam broke, and we saw the outpouring of the Holy\r\nSpirit begin in Barrow, others followed my father.\u00a0 <\/span>Paul Bills came behind us in Barrow.\u00a0 <\/span>There was Cecelia Piper who went to\r\nWainwright.\u00a0 <\/span>There was Agnes Rodli who\r\nwent to Kaktovik, and on to Tuktoyaktuk.\u00a0\r\n<\/span>There was Don Webster, the Wycliffe Bible translator who spent years in\r\nWainwright, translating the Bible into the Inupiat language.\u00a0 <\/span>There was Dwain McKenzie (whom I pastored\r\nwith on two occasions) who twice ministered in Barrow and also served at Point\r\nHope and Fort Yukon.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Paul\r\nPatkotak served as my father\u2019s translator in Barrow, then in Wainwright when we\r\nmoved there to build a church, and again at Point Hope for a time when we moved\r\nthere to build a church.\u00a0 <\/span>He was able to\r\nsee with his own eyes the transformation of hundreds, if not thousands, of\r\npeople who had listened to him and not responded, along with those who had\r\nmocked and ridiculed his faith.\u00a0 <\/span>He saw\r\nas his own sons and daughters came to know Jesus Christ, experiencing the faith\r\nand power of Jesus Christ in their lives as he had known.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Comparing\r\nnotes with Paul one day, we realized that there was not one place where we\r\nbuilt in Alaska where Paul had not stopped at some point in his journeys and\r\npreached.\u00a0 <\/span>When Dad took note of the day and\r\ntime that God had called him in an audible voice and said to him, \u201cI want you\r\nto go to Alaska for me,\u201d he realized that God\u2019s call came when Paul began to\r\nintercede for the people he was preaching to.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Paul\r\nhad wept and said, \u201cBrother Capener, you are the answer to my prayers.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Dad, in turn, said to Paul, \u201cBrother Paul, I\r\nwouldn\u2019t be in Alaska if it were not for you and your faithful\r\nintercession.\u00a0 <\/span>The harvest we see and are\r\nreaping is the product of your sowing and tears.\u00a0 <\/span>God has heard your cries and we are\r\nhere.\u00a0 <\/span>And the Holy Spirit is being\r\npoured out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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I\r\nlook back to my years of ministry in Alaska and consider the miracles I have\r\nseen.\u00a0 <\/span>I consider my years involved in\r\nbringing Christian television broadcasting to Alaska.\u00a0 <\/span>Lives were changed.\u00a0 <\/span>Communities were transformed.\u00a0 <\/span>The arctic today may yet be an inhospitable\r\nplace in terms of climate, but the spirit of Alaska has changed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Paul\r\nPatkotak, the modern apostle Paul, went to be with the Lord just after his 91st<\/sup>\r\nbirthday in November, 1982.\u00a0 <\/span>The message\r\nhe preached, and the gallons of tears he shed on behalf of Alaskans and\r\nnorthern Canadians for some 70 years, are directly responsible for the\r\ntransformation that continues to sweep through the north.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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I\r\nowe him.\u00a0 <\/span>More than words can\r\nexpress.\u00a0 <\/span>So do thousands of other\r\nChristians scattered from Russia to Alaska to Canada to Greenland.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Enjoy\r\nyour day, folks.\u00a0 <\/span>Blessings on you!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In case you are missing out on real fellowship in an environment\r\nof Ekklesia, our Sunday worship gatherings are available by conference call \u2013\r\nusually at about 10:30AM Pacific.\u00a0 <\/span>That\r\nconference number is <\/span><\/b>(712) 770-4160<\/span><\/b>, and\r\nthe access code is <\/span><\/b>308640#.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>We are now making these gatherings available on\r\nvideo usingZOOM.\u00a0 <\/span>If you wish to\r\nparticipate by video on ZOOM, our login ID is 835-926-513.\u00a0 <\/span>If you miss the live voice-onlycall, you can\r\ndial <\/span><\/b>(712) 770-4169<\/span><\/b>, enter the same access code\r\nand listen in later.\u00a0 <\/span>The video call, of\r\ncourse, is not recorded \u2013 not yet, anyway.<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Blessings on you!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Regner<\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n

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Regner A. Capener<\/span><\/b>
\r\nCAPENER MINISTRIES<\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
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