After they married, Roland and Jackie started talking about ways to reach out to the native Alaskan community around them, and decided to build a Seventh-day Adventist school on their property by the lake. They called it “The Mission School” and offered grades 1-8. Students and parents were delighted, and kids came from as far away as Nome just to attend the mission school. In order to accommodate the students, two dormitories were built. Additionally, the Moodys started an Adventist congregation and built the first Aleknagik Seventh-day Adventist Church. As the school grew, Roland and Jackie wanted to provide more for their students, so they started a camp. We just didn’t have any place to take the young kids for activities and stuff,recalled Roland, and kids like to go some place. They named the new place “Camp Polaris”–after the guiding light of the North Star.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:00:00 +0000