Mark Witas

Adventist Health Mission and Spiritual Care director

For 38 years, Mark Witas has been a youth pastor, dormitory dean, academy Bible teacher, choir director, academy chaplain, college chaplain, university religion teacher, K-12 principal or senior pastor. He previously served as Adventist Health Glendale Mission and Spiritual Care Leader, and is now Mission and Spiritual Care director.

By Mark Witas

Pull Up a Chair: The Power of Holding Space for Each Patient

July 27, 2024, by Mark Witas

What does it mean to minister to patients as a hospital chaplain? For Mark Witas, it means pulling up a chair.

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CCA Retreat Inspires Recommitment

May 01, 2009, by Mark Witas

At Cascade Christian Academy, 30 students and 10 sponsors went to Knutson Ranch in Valley, Wash., for a spiritual retreat in January. The weekend was planned and run by the students who serve on the chaplain's council.Tim Gillespie, Loma Linda Uni...

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Principal's Head Is Shaved To Help Teacher

January 01, 2008, by Mark Witas

"Mr. Witas, if we raise enough money to send Mrs. McLin to Germany, can we shave your head?""Why would you want to send your teacher to Germany?" I asked. "What could she have possibly done to you to make you want to send her to Germany?""We found...

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Winter Sports Program Popular at Cascade Christian Academy

September 01, 2006, by Mark Witas

One of the many perks of living in Wenatchee is that we have Mission Ridge Ski Resort, a world-class ski hill, just 20 minutes from our school parking lot. For more than 30 years, Cascade Christian Academy has been taking advantage of the proximit...

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CCAs Cinnamon Roll Teacher

August 01, 2006, by Mark Witas

CCA’s Cinnamon Roll Teacher

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Lifesavers and Role Models

July 01, 2006, by Mark Witas

The teachers in my Seventh-day Adventist school were lifesavers for me at a critical time. When I was 15, my mom had just married a man out of prison who made my home life quite unpleasant. At the same time, my neighborhood friends and I were gett...

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CCA Develops New Touring Group

July 01, 2005, by Mark Witas

At the beginning of the 2004–05 school year, CCA’s choral director, Dan Kravig, and Vicki Downer, drama director, decided to combine their programs in a unique way. Instead of teaching separate disciplines, why not combine efforts to create a grou...

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CCA Kids Keep Scripture in Hearts and Minds

July 01, 2005, by Mark Witas

Shannon Fisher has been teaching at Cascade Christian Academy (CCA) for 18 years and has decided that one Bible text would never apply to her classroom. Sound suspicious?The Bible text that Fisher doesn’t want to apply to her classroom reads, “'Th...

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KEEP Scholarship Leads to Baptism

July 01, 2004, by Mark Witas

Meghan became a ward of the state when she was nine years old. Taken from her family, her parents in prison, her brothers and sisters in foster care with other families, Meghan’s life was a cyclone of confusion.In the public school that she attend...

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Wenatchee Valley Holds First Camp Meeting

December 01, 2003, by Mark Witas

The Adventist churches of the Wenatchee Valley held their first camp meeting in Wenatchee, Wash. The October weekend event featured adult meetings presented by Des Cummings, Florida Hospital executive vice president, who spoke on the gift of the S...

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