The Alaska Mission was in its infancy when it held its second Annual Meeting in 1905. Ten years later in 1915 the Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage was established at the request of the railroad and mining workers in the area that were from Catholic families. On September 15th I attended the Mass in Thanksgiving for the Centennial.  There has been a great history with its parishioners and priests and nuns. As with the Alaska Conference archives in the room at East Anchorage UMC, the staff at the Cathedral has been organizing and inventorying the collection so you and others can easily find something of interest in your spiritual journey.  I hope to have the Conference Journals scanned and placed on the Conference web site by the end of 2016. Would anyone like to help? The Catholic archive story can be read in the CatholicAnchor.org September issue, pages 1, 3, and 24. I did look in their St. Michael Hymnal and noticed that there are eleven hymns included by Charles Wesley.

 

Larry Hayden, Chair