In 2017, God began developing a vision in our Elder team to take the next major step toward our vision of bringing Life in Christ to Every Alaskan and the World Beyond: Promised Land.

In the summer of 2017, an evangelistic tour by one of our Mission Partners in Kotzebue led to a revival and many people committing themselves to Christ. It was clear God was on the move in Northwest Alaska. This led to the founding of ChangePoint Kotzebue, which has leveraged online tools to reach not just Kotzebue but many surrounding communities as well. Two years later Kotzebue had more than 2100 followers online from communities across Alaska.

Lance Kramer serves as our Kotzebue campus pastor, along with his wife, Corina

PJ Jones came on staff in 2020 to help serve with children and youth in Kotzebue

Lance and Corina Kramer have run summer camps at Kattivik Bible Camp for many years. Since becoming a campus, ChangePoint members from all campuses have supported the camp, financially as well as serving in the camp.

At the 2019 Summer Camp, God showed up in a big way. Dozens of students gave their lives to Christ and were baptized. These students now make up the majority of the Kotzebue campus!

Here you can see campers gathered together at Kattivik Bible Camp where students give their lives to Christ! The Kotzebue campus has a L.I.T. discipleship training program for these young people and new believers.

In the fall of 2018, we launched ChangePoint MatSu at Colony Middle School in Palmer. The MatSu Valley is Alaska’s fastest growing region and has doubled in population since 2000.

They no longer meet at Colony Middle School. By a clear act of God the MatSu campus was able to purchase a church building in the fall of 2020 with a mortgage that is less than the cost of renting. The MatSu campus is growing steadily, has launched a Community Life ministry as is looking to students next!

Spiritual fruit is something we can’t manufacture. When we make a move like Promised Land, we’re trusting that God will respond to our faith and show His faithfulness. Perhaps the greatest joy we’ve had throughout is baptizing new members into the family of God.

Pictured here (below): Matsu Campus Pastor Dan Jarrell baptizes a MatSu Family Member!

Pictured here (above): Four generations of a family baptized together at ChangePoint MatSu.

Pictured here are members of the founding group of the Tikahtnu Campus after they trained to set up their portable campus!

The Tikahtnu campus meets at Bartlett High School. They set up a children's area, sound system, and welcome area to prepare for services each week. 

Demonstrating in the community has been the heartbeat of the Tikahtnu Campus since its opening!

Tikahtnu members organized a trash clean up day at parks in Northeast Anchorage (below). As well as activities like serving dinner at the USO on JBER for servicemen and women.

The ladies at Tikahtnu served at Beacon Hill, a local mission partner of ChangePoint, to clean and organize their facilities! (seen above)

Building the new Student Center was a big part of Promised Land. Since we’ve opened the Student Center, God has breathed new life into our Student Worship Team. They’ve been leading our whole church in worship on Sundays, at events and even last Christmas!

The Student Café has been a great place of community for students. During “distance learning” we ran a study hall program for Students out of the Café. Students use it for Life Groups, and we all enjoy it on Sunday!

ChangePoint Student have their own worship team, and help to lead in CPSM and churchwide events.

Students gather in the new student facility at the Raspberry campus for all sorts of Student Ministries opportunities, and they even have their own tech team!