Biblical Nomads of Eagle River
When we scheduled the God and Country Sunday for all the Boy Scout Troops in Eagle River at our church, we ran into our first major hurdle. When church members arrived at the piano store on a Friday afternoon to set up things for Sunday’s ecumenical service, they found an eviction notice tacked on the front door and a front-end loader in the parking lot. It seems that roofing problems led inspectors to burned rafters from a fire in the early life of the building. We were out until it was fixed, and we had to find a place to hold the special Sunday service. This was the beginning of our congregation’s moves, our own stations of the cross. That Sunday we held the God and Country Boy Scout services in the top floor of the vacant United Building Supply Building
Our congregation became the Biblical nomads of Eagle River, sometimes referred to as the "Store Front, Have Pews will travel Church." This title came from the fourteen, 16-foot-long benches from the old Anchorage Federal Courthouse that we used as pews.
From United Building Supply we moved to a building that once housed a Christian Bookstore and a Martial Arts school. Tucked in the corner of a small mall, visiting clergy had a difficult time locating our services. But we survived and thrived.
We moved back to the Frontier Mall, then we expanded into the adjoining carpet store and tried to purchase the building, but that was not the Lord’s way. The Baptist Church bought the building. After we took the windows out to load our pews in, we moved into the former Allstate office across from the U.S. Post Office in Eagle River. We now called our congregation Holy Spirit Episcopal Church.
- Mail: PO Box 773223
- Street: 17545 N Eagle River Loop Rd
- Eagle River
- Alaska
- 99577
(907) 694-8201
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