God's Closet Launches New Chapter The Seventh-day Adventist Community Church of Vancouver (Wash.) opened their doors to more than 100 family units from the surrounding community on Nov. 11, 2011. Each unit received two shopping bags to fill with quality clothing items for children... Leer más
An Oil Spill, a Match and an Emergency Phone Call While removing the old Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) boiler building in the summer of 2009, the fuel storage tanks were exposed, and workers discovered that kerosene and diesel had overflowed sometime in the past, contaminating the surrounding ... Leer más
Rivergate Elementary Celebrates Centennial Alumni, friends, parents, students and staff gathered at the Rivergate Adventist Elementary School (in Gladstone, Ore.) Sept. 23 and 24 as the school celebrated 100 years of Christian education.The centennial included Sabbath morning services feat... Leer más
Committed Visits PAA Portland (Ore.) Adventist Academy (PAA) hosted Committed, an Adventist a capella singing group and winners of season two of NBC's The Sing Off, in a concert for more than 800 teachers and students from nine Adventist schools.Adventist Health spons... Leer más
Whipple Creek Church Welcomes New Pastor The Whipple Creek Church (Ridgefield, Wash.), welcomed their new pastor, Ed Nelson, from Grants Pass, Ore., where he was the associate/youth pastor for the past eight years.Called from a career in electrical engineering, Nelson enrolled in the sem... Leer más
Oregon Christian Women's Retreat Celebrates 25 Years The Columbia River Gorge's Skamania Lodge welcomed 240 women Oct. 14–16 to the 25th–annual Oregon Christian Women's Retreat, which included general sessions, breakout sessions on various topics, an anointing service, and countless opportunities fo... Leer más
University Student Baptized Jessica Finds a Church Family Jessica McIntosh was baptized into the Falls City (Ore.) Church by Doug Clayville, pastor, on Nov. 12, 2011.A senior at Western Oregon State University, McIntosh began attending the Falls City Church early last spring. She liked its small-church, ... Leer más
Fall Festival at Mid-Columbia Adventist Christian School Mid-Columbia Adventist Christian School (Hood River, Ore.) teachers welcomed former and current students, friends, relatives, church members and the community to the annual Fall Festival on Nov. 5, 2011.Each teacher operated a game or food table a... Leer más
Never Too Old for a Motorcycle Ride Cecelia Chang, a 99-year-old member of the Kelso-Longview (Wash.) Church, had never had the opportunity to ride a bicycle or motorcycle. She just didn't have time when raising her family — that was, until Dorothy Miller asked her son to take a "lo... Leer más
