March 23-29, Carry the Cure will present it’s 17th annual Iditarod Outreach.
The 2026 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.
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 multiple 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
The $20 Bill Challenge is a demonstration that is used during our school and community events to emphasize that every life is valuable, no matter what has happened in its past. We use the $20 bill to illustrate this point, and to bless someone in the community at the end of the demonstration.
Any amount you give is welcome, and it will be converted into $20 bills for use in the demonstrations.
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.
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
- 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 ($55,000+)
- New CTC Building! CTC facility will be used as a training center, gathering hall, music studio (for weekly podcasts to Village Alaska), rehearsal space, mentoring center and housing for our Warrior Eyes’ program (missions training and discipleship center for people from Village Alaska)
- Excavating CTC land for new building project and community garden
» Local
- Carry the Cure needs an office worker (10 hrs./week)
- Local volunteers to help us organize, pack, and label equipment for teams before we travel.
- Volunteers to share the vision about Carry the Cure with others that can use our services or partner with us.
- Bill Pagaran’s family has a disabled daughter and is always looking for good, female respite workers to hire through the agencies we use. Please contact us directly at (907) 745-8295.
» Prayer
Our 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.