Pray for Tuktoyaktuk
Tuktoyaktuk, (Inuvialuktun: it looks like a caribou) or Tuk, is located approximately 60 kilometers east of the mouth of the Mackenzie river where it flows into the Arctic Ocean. According to Wikipedia, “the settlement has been used by the native Inuvialuit for centuries as a place to harvest caribou and beluga whales. 
In addition, Tuk’s natural harbor was used as a means to transport supplies to other Inuvialuit settlements.” Most of Tuk’s current 900 population is made up of Inuvialuit people.
In recent history, Tuk has been used as a radar site for the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line to provide early warning against Soviet intrusions, as a base for oil exploration of the northern shelf of Canada, and as a base for whaling operations in the first half of the 20th century. Today many locals continue to supplement their income with hunting, fishing and trapping. The people we encountered in Tuk were friendly and happy to show us their community.
Though Tuk has a heritage of faith, the community has a significant degree of unresolved anger toward the injustices of the residential school system. We encountered prominent evidence of this anger in the form of a full size ship displayed as a negative memorial reminder of what had been done in the past. This reminder is located prominently across the street from the dying Catholic church and dead Anglican church. As a result, many of the people of Tuk have little use for the ‘white man’s’ church.
Today, Glad Tidings Mission (a pentecostal work) shares the hope of Christ to the people of Tuktoyaktuk. Currently the church ministers to an average of 40 people each Sunday. Though the work is difficult, there have been some successes. There also exists a small fellowship begun by a Bible Baptist missionary. Please pray that God will empower and protect Darrell as he seeks to lead the new group of believers. Please pray God will raise up workers to send into the harvest field of Tuktoyaktuk.