Legal Counsel David Duncan received his law degree from Willamette University in 1971.Duncan works through enough paper each year to create several stacks equal to his height.Legal work on estate planning fills 60 percent of Duncan's time; the remainder is spen... Leer más
Regional, Youth African American members celebrated their 30th annual convocation in 2006.There are more than 126 NPUC Pathfinder clubs.During the past five years, regional members have contributed more than $8 million in tithe and baptized 864 new members to bri... Leer más
Ministerial In the Northwest there are about 13 million people and 90,000 Seventh-day Adventists, a ratio of 1:144.On average, one person is baptized each year for every 33 current members.Sixty percent of the Northwest's population live in the ten largest me... Leer más
Communication More than 2 million pages are printed each month to provide the GLEANER to Northwest Adventist homes.The NPUC and GLEANER Web sites received more than 100,000 visits last year.Adventist media touches more than 100,000 listeners/viewers each week i... Leer más
Go Ye Into All The World Students at Puget Sound Adventist Academy (PSAA), located on the same campus with the Kirkland Adventist School (KAS), represent at least 13 countries. This 10-year-old academy is a microcosm of the world’s youth colliding together in the hallways... Leer más
Cover Cut Les Zollbrecht, Portland Adventist Academy Bible teacher points out a prominent Columbia River Gorge geographical feature to Michelle Nayebkhil, Kyle Stevens, Meilani Kirkwood and Trent Wade. GLEANER photo. Leer más
Why Have Adventist Education? In spite of its outstanding contributions to the church and the larger world, Adventist education is under fire. But the sad fact is that in the early 21st century, the attack all too often is coming from inside the denomination.Some pastors, for ... Leer más
Lifesavers and Role Models 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... Leer más
