Shelby Baptist Association, led by mission strategist Ric Camp, ministered to the people of Alaska this summer in an ongoing partnership with Greater Friendship Baptist Church, Anchorage. This marked the association’s third project with GFBC, which is widely recognized as the first African American church incorporated into the Southern Baptist Convention and the first African American church in Alaska. Sonja Bennet from North Shelby Baptist Church, Birmingham, recalled opportunities for gospel conversations while people waited their turn to receive an eye exam. GFBC and the Shelby Baptist team also held a Friendship Day block party in a park near the church building. Reflecting on the state of missions in Alaska, Camp describes the Last Frontier as “right on the line of being an unreached people group in our own nation.”