» Project Needs:

Iditarod Outreach 2025 Funding: $40,000

March 24-29, Carry the Cure will present it’s 16th annual Iditarod Outreach.

The 2025 outreach will take the CTC team to some of the coldest, darkest and most isolated villages I Alaska. The villages may be cold, but the hearts of the people in these regions are some of the warmest anywhere in the world. CTC will be invited to villages that are by tribal administration invitation only.

This year, we will visit the villages of
Kipnuk, Eek, Atmautluak, Nunapitchuk, and Kwethluk.

There has never been a better time than now to share GOOD NEWS! There has never been a better time than now to share our Committed to Life program in village Alaska and prevent suicide. Keep updated and follow the Bill Pagaran and Carry the Cure Facebook pages for ministry and fundraising updates. Please help us to continue this vital outreach that saves lives!

The cost to partner with Missionary Aviation Repair Center’s two planes (1 King Air and 1 Carvan), 5 villages, 5 schools, 13 team members, take 2100 lbs. of music equipment, other equipment, supplies, material, and food, and bring a highly qualified team cost: $40,000.

CTC has visited at least 5 communities each year during our Iditarod Outreach. Below is a list of the communities by year:

2010		Anchorage, Wasilla, McGrath, Ruby, Nulato, Unalakleet, and Nome
2011		Wasilla, Fairbanks, Tanana, Galena, Unalakleet, White Mountain, and Nome
2012		Anchorage, Wasilla, McGrath, Kaltag, Shaktoolik, Golovin, Unalakleet, and Nome
2013		Wasilla, Nenana, Galena, Grayling, Anvik, Golivin, White Mountain, and Nome
2014		Wasilla, Unalakleet, Nome, Elim, Koyuk, Kaltag, Nulato, Anvik, and Nikolai
2015		Wasilla, Takotna, McGrath, Shageluk, Kotlik, Alukanuk, Galena, and Nome
2016		Wasilla, Alakanuk, Mt. Village, Aniak, Huslia, Manley Hot Springs, Minto, Fairbanks, North Pole, and Nenana
2017		Tyonek, Manokotak, Dillingham, Aleknagik, Nondalton, Houston Middle School, Homer, Wasilla, Allakaket, Tanana, Rampart, Hughes, Koyukuk, and COTR-Wasilla
2018		Arctic Village, Fairbanks, North Pole, Circle, Chalkyitsik, Venetie, and Ft. Yukon
2019		Russian Mission, Pilot Station, Tuluksak, Akiachak, Akiak, Soldotna, and Wasilla
2020		Kokhanok, Levelock, Naknek, Kolliganek, New Stuyahok, Ekwok, and Peter’s Creek
2021		Good News Bay, Quinhagak, and Bethel
2022		Togiak, Good News Bay, Tuntutuliak, and Kalskag
2023		Palmer, Wasilla, Selawik, Noorvik, Noatak, Kivalina, and Kotzebue
2024		Tununak, Toksook Bay, Nightmute, and Kasigluk
2025		Kipnuk, Eek, Atmautluak, Nunapitchuk, and Kwethluk

Every Village by 2028:

Carry the Cure plans to visit every village in Alaska with its "Committed to Life" suicide prevention program by the year 2028. So far, we've visited about a third of the villages in Alaska. In the villages we have visited, there has been a zero occurrence of suicides among the students that have participated in our program. Please help by praying, giving and going. Your partnership can make all the difference.

Each outreach costs between $5,000 and $35,000 depending on the size of team, the length of the trip and the distance from our home base in Palmer, AK.

Carry the Cure operates year round. We visit over 20 villages in Alaska every year.  After the 16th Iditarod Outreach, Carry the Cure will have visited 186 villages.  Help us to reach every village in Alaska with our Committed to Life school assembly, Rise Above It workshops and other programs.

Boarding School Visits:

Carry the Cure plans to visit the three boarding schools in Alaska once a year. The three boarding school are located in Sitka, Galena and Nenana.

Carry the Cure also plans to visit Mt. Edgecumbe, and 3 villages in Southeast Alaska sometime before the end of the 2025 school year. Total cost of this project for our 7 member team that includes Broken Walls will be $21,500.

 

» Equipment Needs:

• New Vehicle for Road System Outreaches: Ford Expedition, Lincoln Navigator, or Toyota Sequoia (*God Provided!)
• Lighting equipment
• Equipment and supplies for Committed to Life School Assemblies
• Building supplies for new facility ($35,000+)
• Building for new mentoring studio and storage facility
• Excavating CTC land for new building project and community garden

» Prayer Warriors:

The Carry the Cure team knows that nothing is accomplished without prayer. We are in need of prayer warriors that can commit to praying for our families, teams, needs and the principalities we face.