What We Do

Current Opportunities

To expand the reach of the Gospel in Alaska by:

Flying People & Supplies Where There Are No Roads:

Using a variety of aircraft, we provide cost-shared passenger & cargo transportation to pastors and their families, missionaries, churches, para-church organizations, Bible camps, and short-term work groups conducting ministry activity in Alaska, Far Eastern Russia, and Northern Canada.

Aviation is necessary: even though the state is larger than Texas, California, and Montana combined, the city of Seattle has more roads than the entire state of Alaska. With more than three million lakes and one hundred thousand glaciers (half of the world’s total), the terrain of Alaska is very unforgiving & virtually inaccessible without the use of aircraft.

Through a unique partnership with Samaritan’s Purse, our combined modernized fleet enables us to tailor flight services for the varied needs of our mission partners across Alaska. This consolidated capability allows us to operate safely and efficiently for their benefit despite the remote arctic conditions. In addition to supporting ongoing youth development and community improvements, our combined mission efforts enable rapid response to provide relief aid & services during emergency situations across Alaska.

Supporting Other Missionaries & Their Aircraft:

Mission work in remote Alaska necessitates a heavy reliance upon air transportation. As such, many individual missionaries and supporting organizations own & operate their own aircraft. However, proper aircraft maintenance is not only time consuming & costly, it is very difficult in the harsh terrain & weather conditions of Alaska. To help our partners maintain a focus upon their primary mission efforts and to help ensure the safe operation of their aircraft, we operate a maintenance facility that sustains & repairs their aircraft at a much reduced cost to these ministries. This effort is done in addition to the large task of maintaining our own aircraft fleet in a state of near constant readiness.

We are also one of the primary suppliers of aviation gasoline on the Kenai Peninsula, and we also utilize our inherent capability to support our mission partners in a variety of ways, from researching transportation costs to procurement & logistical support. To subsidize the flight & maintenance costs for our mission partners, we also offer our maintenance, fueling, parts service, and flight instruction to the local community at competitive rates. These commercial services allow MARC to be better stewards with the talents & resources God has provided our mission team.

Training Missionary-Minded Pilots & Mechanics:

We’re privileged to reinvest our God-given aviation & maintenance talents into the lives of other Christians who share our concern for reaching the hearts of the Native Alaskans. Today we utilize our instructor-certified pilots to provide flight instruction to others who are interested in using aviation as a ministry tool; and we’re also honored to train pastors, missionaries, and other organizations in the field maintenance skills needed to operate in remote areas.

Additionally, we intend to grow our capability to teach, train, disciple, and mentor missionary-minded Native Alaskans in aviation technology. This is essential to not only bridging the existing cultural gap between missionaries and the Native Alaskans, but also to increasing the economic potential in the villages. We believe growing indigenous mission aviation capability is vital to impacting remote Alaska with the hope of Jesus Christ.

Impacting Remote Alaska with the Hope of Jesus Christ through Missionary Aviation

Impacting:

We are not content to simply exist as an organization. We are instructed by God to produce results for Him using our varied spiritual gifts and talents. As a unified team combining our strengths & weaknesses, we’re able to make a profound effect upon the world for God recognizing that we belong to God and are for His service.

There are many needs around us here in Alaska, and our “servant’s heart” attitude enables God to do great things through us. In conjunction with our extended missionary family, we are able to make a significant impact in changing individual lives, expanding the reach of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, making partner ministries more effective in their efforts, and providing access for more Christian stewards to serve God here in Alaska.

Remote:

Alaska is a place of beauty—but mystery. Most people have only seen Alaska through the eyes of nature & scenery photographs, and those who travel here have limited insight into the true size and scope of Alaska. It’s very difficult to understand the true complexity of Alaska’s transportation & accessibility issues from an external perspective.

With more than 200 villages that are inaccessible except by the sea or air, Alaska has unique ministry concerns, and it’s the remote nature of the people we need to reach that necessitates our particular ministry.

Alaska:

Our primary ministry area is Alaska. In particular, we focus the majority of our efforts upon the remote portions of Western Alaska that are not connected by roads because of the pronounced spiritual & physical needs in this region exaggerated by the isolation and harsh conditions.

However, due to the proximity of Alaska’s arctic location, we’re also able to provide aviation support into Far Eastern Russia and Canada, as necessitated by our mission partners with whom we serve & support.

Hope:

The negative statistics of abuse, assault, alcohol, drugs, depression, isolation, suicide, and murder within Alaska are heartbreaking and certainly portray that hope is a scarce commodity to many here—particularly within the rural Native communities. But, behind each of these statistics are individual human beings—and they matter greatly to God and us!

While we’re acutely aware of the physical needs, our focus remains upon the spiritual void and the hope that only God can truly provide. As a natural result of sharing His love, we’re able to help many people in need.

Jesus Christ:

Considering the scope of the problems in Alaska and the accelerating death spiral of moral decline and decay, man’s intervention is obviously insufficient: God’s unconditional love is the only remedy. Until the hearts of the people of Alaska become spiritually transformed, all other relief and development activity is merely superficial to treating the symptoms, not the cause.

Once God has renewed the hearts and minds of the Alaskan people through the cleansing & saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, real physical change in Alaska will naturally follow.

Missionary:

We exist as an organization to propagate our faith in Jesus Christ. We endeavor to reach the unchurched and to rejuvenate the faith of isolated Christians here in Alaska. We have been sent forth by other Christians and depend upon the financial support of those like-minded believers and stewards who share God’s calling with us.

Since 1964, God has placed us here in Soldotna to make us culturally aware and to build enduring relationships with the people of Alaska. These long-term relationships are critical to providing access points to the hearts & minds of the unique Alaskan community, and our distinctive partnership with other mission organizations enables God’s work to be sustained effectively, efficiently, safely, reliably, and affordably despite the high costs of serving within the remote & difficult context of living and operating in Alaska.

Aviation:

Due to the extreme distances and lack of connecting roads, aircraft are essential to reaching the remote and isolated villages of Alaska. But while flying is certainly at the heart of our mission, we do so much more. Caring for our own fleet of aircraft operating within the harsh & unforgiving weather conditions of Alaska requires us to maintain a heavy focus upon aircraft maintenance & safety. Since our inception, we have strived to provide the mission community in Alaska with a high standard of aircraft maintenance at the lowest possible cost.

Thanks to our high operational tempo and the experience our team has collectively gathered over the many years of operating here in Alaska, we’re also able to offer a significant logistical support & training capability to the mission community of pastors, missionaries, churches, para-church organizations, etc.

From transportation & shipping assistance, parts research & advice, vehicle & equipment maintenance, to flight training & instruction, our varied aviation-related activities combine effectively to directly & indirectly enable the Gospel of Jesus Christ to reach places where it would otherwise be impracticable or simply impossible.

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