InterAct Ministries

Mission agency serving Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan; founded in 1951 as Alaska Missions, Inc., with sixteen independent missionaries as the core of the organization, growing to 175 by 1980; name changed to Artic Missions, Inc. (1956), and InterAct Ministries (1988); headquarters located in Anchorage, Alaska (1951-1958), Portland, Oregon (1958-1965) and Boring, Oregon (1965- ); ministry focused on evangelism and church planting in rural villages throughout Alaska, western Canada and Siberia, and included a boarding high school for native Alaskans, outreach camp, Christian conference center, the Arctic Bible Institute (3-year program to train indigenous leadership), and Multi Media Program which produced evangelistic radio programs and audio tapes and administered the Arctic Bible Correspondence School.

From the description of Records of InterAct Ministries., 1947-1989. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 31200271