Spring is always a welcomed time in Arctic Village. The sun returns. The birds return. The caribou linger around a little longer. It’s just wonderful. This year, Gretchen’s parents Mark and Lynette came to visit!
On the second day of their visit we celebrated Easter Sunday. Reverend Trimble Gilbert gives the Easter sermon to a packed congregation.
This Sunday we counted 40-50 people coming and going from the 11am service. After the church service, nearly the entire village showed up for an easter egg hunt. Dozens and dozens of eggs were hidden throughout the village main street for children up to age 18 to find. There were also special plastic eggs with prizes inside!
The Sunday after Easter, Reverend Gilbert gave a special sermon about miracles. He talked a lot about miracles surrounding the translation of the bible into Gwich’in and some of the first bibles in this part of Alaska.
This is the old church in Arctic Village. After worship we visited to show the beautiful beadwork to Mark and Lynette. The church is about 100 years old. Last year my students and I did a math project determining the number of beads in the alter. We first estimated, then used computation to solve the problem. After finding the total area we counted the number of beads in one square inch. Finally we determined it had over 10,000 beads in this hand-sewn alter piece.
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