InterAct Ministries

Dates:
Active 1947
Active 1989

Biographical notes:

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

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Subjects:

  • Education
  • Education
  • Aeronautics in missionary work
  • Bible colleges
  • Christian education
  • Christian education
  • Christian education of teenagers
  • Christian education, Outdoor
  • Church and state
  • Church schools
  • Correspondence schools and courses
  • Eskimos
  • Evangelistic work
  • Fundamentalism
  • Indians of North America
  • Indians of North America
  • Indigenous church administration
  • Missionaries
  • Missionaries
  • Missions
  • Missions
  • Missions to Sikhs
  • Organizational change
  • Rural missions
  • Tribes

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Places:

  • Alaska (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • British Columbia (as recorded)