Liesl Vistaunet Gleaner copy editor Former Portland Adventist Academy communications director and marketing manager By Liesl Vistaunet PAA Students Certified for Disaster Response The Oregon Conference community outreach department inspired Portland Adventist Academy students to join in Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACS-DR) for Oregon, the Pacific Northwest and beyond.Twenty PAA students signed up for spec... Read more PAA Adopts a Class Early in the school year, Greg Phillips, Portland Adventist Academy chaplain, was inspired to invite his co-workers to join him in a classroom adoption project. His invitation was greeted with enthusiasm.Adopt a Class Foundation is a nonprofit fou... Read more PAA Welcomes New Staff Members Portland Adventist Academy introduces six new staff members.Maria Bibb is PAA's new English as a Second Language director. She works with students from China, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and Vietnam. Bibb and her husband, Lane, have three children. ... Read more PAA Welcomes Community to Block Party Portland Adventist Academy connected with its community by inviting neighbors to come on campus for the second annual neighborhood block party.The free three-hour event brought nearly 100 neighbors to the campus in an effort to spur conversation a... Read more Oasis Improv Brings in the Unchurched It's another Saturday night with the True!mprov Troupe. A woman on stage says, "Give me the name of an unlikely charity." Her attentive audience throws back a flurry of responses, "IRS, Microsoft, Superman..." A few moments later, two people act o... Read more New PAA Alumnus Has Strong Personal Goals New Portland Adventist Academy alumni member Deanna Lemire wowed her teachers with her senior project before graduation in June.Lemire's project, a diploma requirement at PAA, was inspired by her interest in "fiber arts." Lemire went through the e... Read more PAA Hosts the Public With Education EXPO Every year Portland Adventist Academy opens its doors to the public to share its students' best work with family, friends and community members.This year's Education EXPO highlighted work from digital media, chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiol... Read more PAA Plans to Offer College Course Credit Beginning in the 2008–2009 school year, Portland Adventist Academy students will have the opportunity to earn college credit. PAA will also offer four additional honors and advanced placement classes.Digital Broadcasting, Web Page Design, and Intr... Read more Pipeline Connects PAA Students To Community Needs Over a dozen Portland Adventist Academy students participated in Pipeline, an urban mission outreach organized by Cory Wetterlin, Pleasant Valley Church youth pastor. It was designed to focus on Portland, Ore., one of the nation's most secular com... Read more PAA Students Go Green With Christian Ethics Portland Adventist Academy seniors are leaving behind a legacy of creation care for their school.Les Zollbrecht, PAA philosophy and ethics teacher, helps students think about Christian ethics in the world. Students chose to discuss issues from a w... Read more Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 12 Next page ››
PAA Students Certified for Disaster Response The Oregon Conference community outreach department inspired Portland Adventist Academy students to join in Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACS-DR) for Oregon, the Pacific Northwest and beyond.Twenty PAA students signed up for spec... Read more
PAA Adopts a Class Early in the school year, Greg Phillips, Portland Adventist Academy chaplain, was inspired to invite his co-workers to join him in a classroom adoption project. His invitation was greeted with enthusiasm.Adopt a Class Foundation is a nonprofit fou... Read more
PAA Welcomes New Staff Members Portland Adventist Academy introduces six new staff members.Maria Bibb is PAA's new English as a Second Language director. She works with students from China, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and Vietnam. Bibb and her husband, Lane, have three children. ... Read more
PAA Welcomes Community to Block Party Portland Adventist Academy connected with its community by inviting neighbors to come on campus for the second annual neighborhood block party.The free three-hour event brought nearly 100 neighbors to the campus in an effort to spur conversation a... Read more
Oasis Improv Brings in the Unchurched It's another Saturday night with the True!mprov Troupe. A woman on stage says, "Give me the name of an unlikely charity." Her attentive audience throws back a flurry of responses, "IRS, Microsoft, Superman..." A few moments later, two people act o... Read more
New PAA Alumnus Has Strong Personal Goals New Portland Adventist Academy alumni member Deanna Lemire wowed her teachers with her senior project before graduation in June.Lemire's project, a diploma requirement at PAA, was inspired by her interest in "fiber arts." Lemire went through the e... Read more
PAA Hosts the Public With Education EXPO Every year Portland Adventist Academy opens its doors to the public to share its students' best work with family, friends and community members.This year's Education EXPO highlighted work from digital media, chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiol... Read more
PAA Plans to Offer College Course Credit Beginning in the 2008–2009 school year, Portland Adventist Academy students will have the opportunity to earn college credit. PAA will also offer four additional honors and advanced placement classes.Digital Broadcasting, Web Page Design, and Intr... Read more
Pipeline Connects PAA Students To Community Needs Over a dozen Portland Adventist Academy students participated in Pipeline, an urban mission outreach organized by Cory Wetterlin, Pleasant Valley Church youth pastor. It was designed to focus on Portland, Ore., one of the nation's most secular com... Read more
PAA Students Go Green With Christian Ethics Portland Adventist Academy seniors are leaving behind a legacy of creation care for their school.Les Zollbrecht, PAA philosophy and ethics teacher, helps students think about Christian ethics in the world. Students chose to discuss issues from a w... Read more
