Larry Hiday

At the heart of the Columbia Adventist Academy campus is a water tower. But the true heart of the school are students, especially seniors, who provide leadership, energy, novel ideas and mentoring to bless the school community. 

Biology students from Columbia Adventist Academy in Battle Ground, Washington, celebrated the reopening of Walla Walla University’s Rosario Marine Biology Station in Anacortes, Washington, as the first school group to visit since the start of the ...

As a high school student at Columbia Adventist Academy in Battle Ground, Washington, a “few years ago,” Doug Schmidt, class of 1980, was heavily impacted and inspired by a series of classes he began taking as a freshman: general shop, welding, woo...

This has been quite an historic year for seniors, and at Columbia Adventist Academy in Battle Ground, Washington, it isn’t just due to COVID-19. It began in the fall of 2019, which now seems an eternity ago, when seniors returned to find a new cla...

Music trip: noun 1. reward for hard work put into practices and performances by band/choir members, often entailing a few performances and lots of entertainment (e.g. Six Flags, Disneyland or somewhere exotic); 2. an enticement by a school to conv...

For Adventist academies, vespers programs and good connections (also known as networking) are key elements of the school environment. On Nov. 30, 2018, thanks to student leadership, connections and student-led vespers programing came together in B...

A beloved teacher passed away Feb. 27, 2018, after a second bout with cancer. During the 30-plus years Reavis Belin taught at Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) in Battle Ground, Wash., he became the icon of all the good teachers at the school.

“Learning” and “meeting the mission of Seventh-day Adventist Christian education” are not isolated to classroom experiences but can take place wherever intentional effort has been planned. At Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) in Battle Ground, Wash...

While we often read Gleaner articles about sharing Christ on mission trips, the learning that develops this desire to share Him often takes place at school or in the home. It is our desire at Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) in Battle Ground, Wash...

Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) in Battle Ground, Wash., is blessed to have an increase in the number of students this year but as we all know, “it’s quality, not quantity.” This truism is supported by biblical stories like Gideon and the small g...