The Chugiak church began in a store on the main highway. After Sunday services, volunteer work parties remodeled the building into a space suitable for a church. The bell we ring every Sunday was an old school bell from Minnesota, donated by Paul Swanson, the Chugiak Postmaster, and his wife Margaret.On February 13th, 1954, thirty–eight people living along the Old Glenn Highway signed a charter and committed themselves to serving God as Methodists in a small frontier community in the Territory of Alaska, four years before Statehood. The Old Glenn was the end of the Alcan Highway, built during WWII to link Alaska to the “Lower 48”. Less than 3,000 people lived between Eagle River and the Knik River Bridge, mostly employed on the military bases and by local businesses serving highway travelers. Some people obtained federal land by homesteading. People were independent but neighborly. The population of Eagle River-Chugiak is now approximately 30,000. Over the last 56 years, our church has been blessed with 23 permanent and interim pastors and their spouses.
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