Last Frontier Ministries

The Melrose United Methodist Church in rural Lee County provides financial and spiritual support for a mission to Inuits in Alaska. Last Frontier Ministries reaches out to people in Alaska’s interior to share the love of Jesus. Their outreach is a needs-based form of evangelism, whether they help to cut wood, attend to medical needs, construct new homes or preach about the love of Christ.

The members at Melrose have had a long-time partnership with Alaskans through Last Frontier Ministries. Currently, they are helping to build a church, caring for people struggling with alcoholism and working proactively to prevent suicides.

The Melrose congregation was formed in 1872 as a Swedish Methodist Church. Sermons were preached in their native language until 1898. Their current building was erected in 1910 and their first worship service was on Thanksgiving Day that year.

Today their central message is God’s love. That is what they have inherited from the generations of Christians who have preceded them. Their website features the Great Commandment in Matthew 22:37-39, where Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is: Love your neighbor as yourself.”