Covenant News

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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