Steve Vistaunet North Pacific Union assistant to the president for communication and Gleaner editor, 1996–2019 By Steve Vistaunet Sidewalk Kids Hour Wraps Up Sixth Season Several rows of children scrunch together on the front edge of a tarp in Orchards Park in Vancouver, Wash., waiting for the weekly Sidewalk Kids Hour to begin.Greg and Shelly Hillman, "pied pipers" from the Orchards Church, have led a growing team... Read more Press Together When the flood reached the old structure, something wonderful happened.In our small community, not everyone had agreed with the mission of the organization that used the dilapidated warehouse. In fact, sharp things had been spoken — cutting, nasty... Read more The Best of the Best The 34th Annual Regional Convocation Record crowds of more than 2,000 from throughout the Northwest and Canada defied a sluggish economy to attend the 34th Annual North Pacific Union Conference Regional Convocation held May 13–16 at Camp Berachah in Auburn, Wash. Those who came repre... Read more Image Integrity is Everything "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."— Stephen Hawking1Stephen Hawking, celebrate... Read more Project PATCH Dedicates New Family Growth Center Capping a project that has taken years of big plans and fervent prayers, Project PATCH celebrated the grand opening of its newest resource center with a dedication service on Sunday, May 16. Their newly constructed $2.5 million Family Growth Cente... Read more Leaving a Lasting Legacy Today, Americans are perhaps more uncertain about their financial future than ever before. And yet it is also likely no other generation has managed more material assets with less training. As one Christian financial firm bemoans, "In a single gen... Read more (Why) Not Now? At an early age, I realized our family was frugal — not by choice, but by necessity. We had food, clothing and plenty of love. But there was little money for anything beyond the basics.So excitement prevailed in the spring of 1962 in the form of a... Read more What Are You Reaching For? I had been eying the iridescent green bottle on the top shelf of the linen closet for days. It was out of reach ... and therefore desirable. To my three-year-old eyes, the glass bottle of Bactine looked fascinating.So it was one day, with my mothe... Read more The Spirit is Still Willing With all due respect to the Holy Scriptures, The Desire of Ages and other inspirational books, I cut my earliest theological teeth on Uncle Arthur's Bible Stories.Before I could decipher words, the colorful pictures there painted a graphic portray... Read more Circles of Light When Ellen White once portrayed the final delivery of the third angel's message in Revelation 18:1 as "servants of God, with their faces lighted up" hastening from place to place, she could just as well been describing the bright light of Adventis... Read more Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 12 Next page ››
Sidewalk Kids Hour Wraps Up Sixth Season Several rows of children scrunch together on the front edge of a tarp in Orchards Park in Vancouver, Wash., waiting for the weekly Sidewalk Kids Hour to begin.Greg and Shelly Hillman, "pied pipers" from the Orchards Church, have led a growing team... Read more
Press Together When the flood reached the old structure, something wonderful happened.In our small community, not everyone had agreed with the mission of the organization that used the dilapidated warehouse. In fact, sharp things had been spoken — cutting, nasty... Read more
The Best of the Best The 34th Annual Regional Convocation Record crowds of more than 2,000 from throughout the Northwest and Canada defied a sluggish economy to attend the 34th Annual North Pacific Union Conference Regional Convocation held May 13–16 at Camp Berachah in Auburn, Wash. Those who came repre... Read more
Image Integrity is Everything "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."— Stephen Hawking1Stephen Hawking, celebrate... Read more
Project PATCH Dedicates New Family Growth Center Capping a project that has taken years of big plans and fervent prayers, Project PATCH celebrated the grand opening of its newest resource center with a dedication service on Sunday, May 16. Their newly constructed $2.5 million Family Growth Cente... Read more
Leaving a Lasting Legacy Today, Americans are perhaps more uncertain about their financial future than ever before. And yet it is also likely no other generation has managed more material assets with less training. As one Christian financial firm bemoans, "In a single gen... Read more
(Why) Not Now? At an early age, I realized our family was frugal — not by choice, but by necessity. We had food, clothing and plenty of love. But there was little money for anything beyond the basics.So excitement prevailed in the spring of 1962 in the form of a... Read more
What Are You Reaching For? I had been eying the iridescent green bottle on the top shelf of the linen closet for days. It was out of reach ... and therefore desirable. To my three-year-old eyes, the glass bottle of Bactine looked fascinating.So it was one day, with my mothe... Read more
The Spirit is Still Willing With all due respect to the Holy Scriptures, The Desire of Ages and other inspirational books, I cut my earliest theological teeth on Uncle Arthur's Bible Stories.Before I could decipher words, the colorful pictures there painted a graphic portray... Read more
Circles of Light When Ellen White once portrayed the final delivery of the third angel's message in Revelation 18:1 as "servants of God, with their faces lighted up" hastening from place to place, she could just as well been describing the bright light of Adventis... Read more