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ARTICLES WRITTEN ABOUT GENE STRAATMEYER

  ARTICLES WRITTEN ABOUT GENE STRAATMEYER – WASILLA ERA March 19, 1999 “News Briefs, Presbyterian News Service” ”Yukon Presbytery Celebrates the Centenary of Arctic Church, Ordination of Inupiat Ministers” by John Filiatreau. Barrow, Alaska.  The unquestioned highlight of the recent spring meeting of the Yukon Presbytery – the ordination of two Inupiat Eskimos as pastor-at-large – hadn’t even been on the agenda. No one knew that Timothy Gologergen and Isaac Akootchook, both long time commissioned lay pastors and unpaid heralds of the Gospel in remote native villages of Arctic Alaska (and also, in Gologergen’s case, Arctic Siberia), would become full-fledged Ministers of the Word and Sacrament during the three-day parley at Barrow, the northernmost city in the United States. But the Holy Spirit moved among the whites and the Inupiats who had gathered prayerfully at the Utquiagvik Presbyterian Church at the “top of the world,” and as the meeting droned on, what only impossible came to se
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Bibliography

  BIBLIOGRAPHY         Alaska Presbyterian, The , (Vm. 4, No. 2, Summer 1969).   Andrews, C. L.,  The Story of Alaska , (Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Co.), 1931   Bandi, Hans-Georg,  Eskimo Prehistory , (College: The University of Alaska Press), Trans. By Ann E. Keep, 1964.   Berry, Mary Clay,  The Alaska Pipeline , (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 1975.   Berton, Pierre,  The Klondike Fever , (New York: Alfred A. Knopf), 1975.   Bingle, Mable P., Compiler,  History of the Presbytery of Yukon, 1929-1950 , (From the minutes of Yukon Presbytery).   __________,  Presbytery of Yukon, 1899-1929 , (From the minutes of Yukon Presbytery loaned by the Historical Association of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.).   Book of Order, 1976-1977 , (New York: The Office of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America), 1976.   Borbridge, John, Jr., “Native Organization and Land Rights as Vehicles for Change,”  Change in Alaska , George W. Rogers, Ed., (C
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Chapter 4: ETHNOGRATION – A MODEL FOR A CROSS CULTURAL CHURCH

                          CHAPTER IV                             ETHNOGRATION – A MODEL FOR A CROSS CULTURAL CHURCH                     In First Presbyterian Church of Fairbanks, Europe and Asia have come together.  People whose ancestors crossed the land bridge in the Bering Straits worship with persons whose ancestors crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower.  After a century of living together in Alaska, they remain distinctly different people.   If the typical pattern of the American church had been followed, there would be two churches in Fairbanks where there is now one.  First Presbyterian Church would have been mostly white with a few persons of other cultures and races who had been anglicized.  In the other section of town, perhaps Eskimo Village (a part of Fairbanks where a number of Eskimo families reside), there would be another Presbyterian Church, this one composed totally of Eskimo people with a white pastor service this “mission” church.  But First Presbyterian Church, thr
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