{"id":1995,"date":"2023-11-08T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2024-03-05T22:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T05:28:24","slug":"alaska-here-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/2023\/11\/08\/alaska-here-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska, Here We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>November 8, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Cissy Padgett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Faithful friends of Music with a Mission:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you missed hearing, we have purchased a home in Soldotna, Alaska!&nbsp; We will still be traveling between Montana and Alaska but for now we\u2019ve made our home in Alaska!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While flying back up in September, the Lord gently spoke to my heart that He was&nbsp;<strong><em>\u201cpropelling us forward into His plan for us!\u201d<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; We aren\u2019t quite sure what that looks like just yet, but we&nbsp;<strong>TRUST HIS HEART<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The week of Thanksgiving, we will be flying into a larger Native Village, Kotzebue, AK.&nbsp; It is above the Arctic Circle. We will be assisting the pastors in cooking a Thanksgiving meal for the congregants and decorating for Thanksgiving and then for Christmas.&nbsp; Then Saturday evening, November 25<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;we will share a Christmas Concert with the people.&nbsp; On Sunday morning we will be leading worship and singing a couple of special songs for them as well.&nbsp; Then we fly back to Anchorage and drive home to Soldotna (about 3 hours on a good weather day) for a few days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we drive back to the Anchorage area to a town called Big Lake. We will be sharing a Christmas Concert there on December 3rd.&nbsp; This church has been without a pastor for over a year and another local pastor has graciously taken the church on to help them \u201creignite for the kingdom!\u201d&nbsp; Afterwards, we will fly to Montana for a few weeks to be with some of our family for Christmas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want to thank all of you for continuing to pray for us and for your faithful support over the years!&nbsp; God is obviously not finished with us yet and we are excited to see what is around the next corner in ministry.&nbsp; Also, please help us continue to pray for Israel.&nbsp; As we see all these things unfolding, we realize Jesus&#8217; coming is sooner than we may think! &nbsp;<strong>Even so, come Lord Jesus<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May the Lord continue to encourage each of you and give you hope and fill your hearts with joy during this holiday season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Much Love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill &amp; Cissy Padgett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>406-431-0458-Cissy\u2019s cell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>406-422-9853-Bill\u2019s cell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>49020 Scorpio Court<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soldotna, Alaska 99669<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 2023 by Cissy Padgett Dear Faithful friends of Music with a Mission: In case you missed hearing, we have purchased<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/2023\/11\/08\/alaska-here-we-are\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NewspaperByGerdAltmann_PixLic-e1709687190816.jpg?fit=1920%2C486&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/payryR-wb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmission.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}