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Alaska Christian College Graduates 18 Students
SOLDOTNA, AK (May 7, 2003) - A total of 18 students graduated from Alaska
Christian College (ACC) on Sunday as the school celebrated its second
commencement exercise at the Evangelical Covenant Church of Alaska
(ECCAK)-sponsored institution.
Seventeen of the graduates were celebrating completion of the one-year
program, graduating with certificates of biblical studies. Another student
became the first graduate of ACC's "Encore" program, in which students
continue their education with general studies courses at Kenai Peninsula
College.
The students, who hail from rural Alaska villages, Canada and the "Lower
48" of the United States, spent the last eight months studying the Bible,
building relationships with one another and serving their faith through
mission trips. Several of the students plan to return to their homes for
the summer and then either take up mission work or return to the
Kenai Peninsula for further study.
Students were involved in ministry during the recent spring break as 13
students and
four staff members traveled to the Kodiak Island villages of Old Harbor and
Ouzinkie. The trip was free for students - ACC paid the travel costs. The
trip to Kodiak, the second largest island in the United States, was
organized by local missionaries Alan and Linda
Ross, pilot Brian Bruxvoort of Missionary Aviation Repair Center (MARC) and
ACC board vice chair Joel Caldwell of Arctic Barnabas Ministries.
A group in Old Harbor built a slide at a preschool and did landscaping for
a senior center. The Ouzinkie team served at a local school, reshelved
books at a library and chopped wood for some of the elderly in town.
"These students are making a statement," stated ACC director Keith Hamilton
in a recent local newspaper story. "They're saying, 'I want to be a
disciple of Christ.'"
To learn more about ACC, call 907-260-7422 or visit the ACC web page at
www.alaskachristiancollege.org.
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