Anchorage Baptist Temple

The Bible is unashamedly preached from cover to cover. The people are friendly and willing to help new visitors find Sunday School classrooms. While it is a larger church, there are many opportunities to connect with people through Adult Bible Fellowship classes, Life Groups, and ministry opportunities.

Pastor Prevo is Alaska’s Jerry Falwell/​Moral Majority Leader and still stuck in the 80’s and 90’s with his brand of evangelical Christianity. Back in the summer of 2009 when he and his church had that gay rights protest, anybody with a rational mind, Christian convictions or not, could see he and lot of the people in his congregation are pretty pharisaical, uninformed, and judgmental. And the fact that there were children participating in the protest and holding up signs was downright appalling.
The smugness and hypocrisy with the pastor of this church is astounding. He spends much of his time behind and outside the pulpit dabbling in politics, spoon-​feeding his congregation on what to think, how to think, how to vote, and will never listen to or accept another viewpoint other than his own thinking his opinion is God’s opinion.
I am aware of his background and won’t go into detail about it and quite sure it’s had a contributing effect to his style. If you are curious about his troubled background as a kid, Google it. Nothing secretive, in fact, he himself has talked about it.
If you desire a large evangelical church in Anchorage, Alaska with real and nonjudgmental people, focuses on real life and the real world, and relevant messages while staying faithful to scripture, I have not yet found the church to suit that area, unfortunately.