Biblical Nomads of Eagle River
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.
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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.
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.