During our 40 days aboard Juvell II, a Faroese mission boat that sails through Greenland’s coastline every summer, we visited 25 remote settlements on the Northwest coast.

Najaswak, our person of peace, had invited us on the journey, where we shared Christ’s love among the Inuit through music, Bible stories, attentive listening and gentle encouragement.

In one of the settlements where I was invited to speak, the Lord brought me to Isaiah 43:1, “But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.”

To illustrate this, I told the story of a boy who built a kayak and lost it to the wind, then found it in a shop window and bought it back. “You are mine twice,” God declares, “once because I made you, and again because I redeemed you.”

Immediately, a young man named Yuccu approached us for prayer. Najaswak invited me to join her in praying for Yuccu. Though his mother is the village priest, Yuccu had never personally known Christ. As we talked, Yuccu revealed his trauma of finding a man who had committed suicide by hanging himself. To numb his pain, Yuccu resorted to drugs. Now he is seeking to be set free.
“The only One who can truly set you free is Jesus Christ,” I told Yuccu. At his request to know Jesus, we led Yuccu to accept Him. We gave him a Bible and a reading plan and shared with him about prayer.

Yuccu has found renewed strength. As we departed, the sight of Yuccu standing in the wind, raising his Bible and flexing his muscles, shouting “The Lord is my strength!” remains etched in my heart.

Your partnership makes these moments possible. Every prayer represents your investment in the souls of Greenland, where suicide rates are among the world’s highest and where hope is desperately needed. Together, we can bring Christ’s light to the Arctic’s darkest places, one life at a time.

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