Alaskan Solutions for Alaska's missionaries

1) Muskox Ministries is the only organization that offers air transportation, ground transportation, and lodging for interior and northern-based Alaska missions all under one roof (i.e., no need for missionaries to shop around for these services from different places). This greatly simplifies things for the already complex logistics that Alaskan missionaries face.

2) We're the only organization offering these services that is headquartered in interior Alaska and specializes in serving the rugged north half of the state (an area roughly the size of Texas). Culture and climate here are very different from the southern part of the state. Local knowledge and expertise equals more efficiency and effectiveness in everything we do.

3) We do not have any paid staff. Our entire team are volunteers and have careers of their own. This means that 100% of your giving goes to services we provide to Alaska's dedicated missionaries, and not to payroll or living expenses for our team.

4) Our team is made up completely of Alaskans, including our Board of Directors. We understand the incredible value of local knowledge and insight. Our organization is not managed from a distant place in the lower 48, and we do not have team members coordinating daily operations that do not live full-time in interior and northern Alaska. We intimately understand the unique aspects of missionary work in the far north.

The cost of a roundtrip commercial flight from Fairbanks to a remote village on the north slope averages over $1,000 per person. That same flight in one of our planes costs our ministry as little as $300 per person. The price of a hotel in Fairbanks during the summer can exceed $150 per night. A night in one of the cabins at our missionary base camp costs our ministry less than $40 per night. A rental car can be over $100 per day. One of our loaner vehicles costs our ministry less than $10 per day. Point being, we can make your gift go much further when it comes to transportation and lodging services. Giving to us makes more resources available to Alaska's missionaries through our ministry.

We see God moving in so many exciting new ways every week through Muskox Ministries. In five years our resources will have grown so that we can offer more support, more effectively to Alaska's missionaries. The base camp will be fully operational by 2026, offering a retreat center and staging area for 30+ missionaries at a time. Our fleet of aircraft will grow to include more volunteer pilots and at least one or two larger, twin-engine or turbine aircraft with deicing to better serve the far-away coastal villages. Our missionary handbook will be in publication by fall of 2025 to provide an in-depth training resource for teams preparing to serve in Alaska. We're excitedly anticipating what God has planned for the coming years at Muskox Ministries. We're just getting started!