The past year was more scholarships, trips to Alaska and work at Cascades Camp and Conference Center. There was something new - establishing a web site at  www.npccovenantmen.org. Now anyone with access to the Internet can obtain information on Covenant Men activities, board meeting announcement and minutes and fall retreat.

Covenant Men awarded scholarships for the 2000-2001 school year to seminary students Matthew Dyment, Christopher Field, Leonid Regheta and Andrew Thompson. Sixty three grants totaling $19,870 have been given to forty one seminary students from the North Pacific Conference over the past fourteen years. The scholarships are limited to full time students from the North Pacific Conference attending North Park Seminary. Pledges designated for scholarships are invested in National Covenant Properties. This investment now totals over $30,000. The scholarships are paid from the interest earned, with the surplus reinvested.

The Alaska summer work was centered at Unalakleet, Bethel and KICY in Nome.  The work at Unalakleet job included exit and emergency lights at the youth center and burying conduit and wire at the North River camp to extend power from the generator to the kitchen and dining hall, cooks cabin and staff cabin. The camp is about 12 miles by gravel road from Unalakleet and then by a mile long poorly maintained trail. The ATV purchased last year by Covenant Men for use by the MARC (Missionary Aviation Repair Center) pilot stationed in Unalakleet was used to transport men, tools and material to the camp. In Bethel the garage doors and a large living room window were replaced at the parsonage. Two additional trips during the fall and winter were spent assisting with the remodeling of the Alaska Airlines Terminal building. The church purchased this building, moved it to a lot adjacent to the church and converted it into class rooms, kitchen and large multipurpose room. Several men helped with constructing and wiring the new transmitter and generator building at KICY and others helped with re-roofing of the Nome church. The volunteers pay for their own travel and food. In addition many times the volunteers purchase needed material.

The men who have worked in Alaska were saddened by the crash that took the life of MARC pilot Don Irvine. Don had an exceptional gift of leadership that was evidenced in the conversion of the Covenant High School gym into the Unalakleet youth center and apartment for the youth director.

At Cascades Camp and Conference Center, the men built bunk beds for the log cabins now under construction. We were prohibited from wiring the cabins by new regulations by the State of Washington, however we assisted with other repair and maintenance.