If Longyearbyen is the site of the world's northernmost bank, supermarket and school, as claimed on Wikipedia, it would stand to reason it also has the northernmost seminary. That would be thanks to the Gerez family.

Longyearbyen, located midway between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, is the largest community -- population about 2,000 -- in Norway's Svalbard Archipelago. Located on Svalbard's largest island, Spitsbergen, it is a 90-minute flight north of Tromso in northern Norway.

Carlos and Emilia Gerez and their three children -- Gabriel, Daniela and Helene -- moved to Norway from Chile. In Chile, Church members invited the Gerez family to their home, shared the gospel and introduced them to the missionaries. They were baptized in March 2002.


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