Richard Dower retired GLEANER editor By Richard Dower A Strong Faith for the Journey At the 31st Regional Convocation Arriving on the campus of Camp Berachah near Auburn, Wash., gave a feeling of anticipation and excitement during the 31st annual Regional Convocation, "A Strong Faith for the Journey," May 17–20.Organized by the North Pacific Union Conference (NPU... Read more The Upper Columbia Academy Foundation When Joe Tua arrived at Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) his freshman year, he was like a ship without an anchor. His mother had died after a long battle with cancer, and he and his four siblings were parceled out to whoever would take them. Joe ended... Read more Impact Your World Rebecca had not been in an Adventist church for 20 years. Feeling the need to reconnect with the Lord and the church, she began attending the Everett (Washington) Forest Park Church and had been there only a few months when she saw the bulletin in... Read more Sidewalk Kids Hour Orchards Members Reach Out to Their Community The Pathfinder leadership of the Orchards Church in Vancouver, Wash., wanted to find a way to reach out to the children in their neighborhood, so they started Sidewalk Kids Hour, held at Orchards Park.The idea of Sidewalk Kids Hour is to gather un... Read more Magnificent Adventures On a hot July Sabbath in 2005 at the Oregon Camp Meeting, Ron and Virginia Oliver listened as Shawn Boonstra, speaker and director of It Is Written, talked about creation and how, when God created humans, He gave them a spark of adventure. “The de... Read more Share the Light Northwest Adventist Leadership Convention Almost all of the Northwest’s Adventist pastors were missing from their pulpits on Sabbath, Sept. 30. While they were not at their churches, they were in Portland, listening to Jere Patzer, North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) president, as he pr... Read more The Whole World Needs His Blood Jim Kyle Donates the Gift of Life An urgent call for blood donors went out during the 1943 Montana Camp Meeting, and 17-year-old Jim Kyle responded. Since that time Kyle has donated more than 20 gallons of blood, and the Red Cross has recognized his contribution by awarding him 20... Read more Share Jesus Now Nathan Batchelor, son of Doug and Karen Batchelor, caught the vision of helping others during craft time in the primary meetings.Nathan, along with the other primary-age kids, knitted caps for newborns with the Nifty Knitter loom, cut out fleece h... Read more Jim Jenkins Ordained One of the Sabbath blessings at the 2006 Montana Conference Camp Meeting was the afternoon ordination service for Jim Jenkins, pastor of the Bozeman/Whitehall district. A native of Montana, he was born in Great Falls in 1964.Jenkins first sensed a... Read more Tell the Love of Jesus . . . Tell Them Now! This year’s Northwest ASI Spring Fellowship weekend was filled with amazing stories. Members told the group how the Lord provided opportunities for them to share the love of Jesus with people around them. The stories fit nicely with the weekend th... Read more Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 2 Next page ››
A Strong Faith for the Journey At the 31st Regional Convocation Arriving on the campus of Camp Berachah near Auburn, Wash., gave a feeling of anticipation and excitement during the 31st annual Regional Convocation, "A Strong Faith for the Journey," May 17–20.Organized by the North Pacific Union Conference (NPU... Read more
The Upper Columbia Academy Foundation When Joe Tua arrived at Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) his freshman year, he was like a ship without an anchor. His mother had died after a long battle with cancer, and he and his four siblings were parceled out to whoever would take them. Joe ended... Read more
Impact Your World Rebecca had not been in an Adventist church for 20 years. Feeling the need to reconnect with the Lord and the church, she began attending the Everett (Washington) Forest Park Church and had been there only a few months when she saw the bulletin in... Read more
Sidewalk Kids Hour Orchards Members Reach Out to Their Community The Pathfinder leadership of the Orchards Church in Vancouver, Wash., wanted to find a way to reach out to the children in their neighborhood, so they started Sidewalk Kids Hour, held at Orchards Park.The idea of Sidewalk Kids Hour is to gather un... Read more
Magnificent Adventures On a hot July Sabbath in 2005 at the Oregon Camp Meeting, Ron and Virginia Oliver listened as Shawn Boonstra, speaker and director of It Is Written, talked about creation and how, when God created humans, He gave them a spark of adventure. “The de... Read more
Share the Light Northwest Adventist Leadership Convention Almost all of the Northwest’s Adventist pastors were missing from their pulpits on Sabbath, Sept. 30. While they were not at their churches, they were in Portland, listening to Jere Patzer, North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) president, as he pr... Read more
The Whole World Needs His Blood Jim Kyle Donates the Gift of Life An urgent call for blood donors went out during the 1943 Montana Camp Meeting, and 17-year-old Jim Kyle responded. Since that time Kyle has donated more than 20 gallons of blood, and the Red Cross has recognized his contribution by awarding him 20... Read more
Share Jesus Now Nathan Batchelor, son of Doug and Karen Batchelor, caught the vision of helping others during craft time in the primary meetings.Nathan, along with the other primary-age kids, knitted caps for newborns with the Nifty Knitter loom, cut out fleece h... Read more
Jim Jenkins Ordained One of the Sabbath blessings at the 2006 Montana Conference Camp Meeting was the afternoon ordination service for Jim Jenkins, pastor of the Bozeman/Whitehall district. A native of Montana, he was born in Great Falls in 1964.Jenkins first sensed a... Read more
Tell the Love of Jesus . . . Tell Them Now! This year’s Northwest ASI Spring Fellowship weekend was filled with amazing stories. Members told the group how the Lord provided opportunities for them to share the love of Jesus with people around them. The stories fit nicely with the weekend th... Read more
