Caring for Caregivers For Adventist Health staff, providing compassion and a gentle touch comes with the territory. However, some acts of love and compassion from employees aren’t aimed at patients but toward each other. The experience of one employee at Adventist Medi... Read more
Not Your Ordinary Concept of Care Imagine you’re in the emergency room. After seeing the doctor, orders are written for your treatment. Maybe you need labs drawn, an x-ray taken or medications dispensed. But what if the person processing the order can’t read the physician's handwr... Read more
My GC Scrapbook The first full night of General Conference Session, it was my privilege and honor to greet delegates as they walked through the special passageway leading into the main dome. I got chills watching hundreds of "brothers" and "sisters" from all over... Read more
Quick Thoughts Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.Theodore RooseveltAn excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; a villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, up... 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
The Face of a Remote and Necessary School Nearest Adventist School: Billings, Montana, about a three-hour drive from Glendive.Enrollment: 9 In grades: K, 1, 3 and 5.Staff: One teacher, one aid, one parent volunteer.Remote Value: In a smaller school setting, a teacher gets to know her stud... Read more
Remote and Necessary Adventist Education Of the 120 Adventist schools within the Northwest, fully 40 percent are designated as remote and necessary. These small schools receive additional funding from the North Pacific Union Conference according to a process set in motion more than three... Read more
The Face of a Remote and Necessary School Nearest Adventist School: Sitka, Alaska, 171.66 miles away, accessible by boat or airplane.Enrollment: 10, expecting 12–13 next year. Grades: 1–8.Staff: One teacher, one volunteer.Remote Value: Our students really have few options other than publi... Read more
Necessary Brotherly Love BJ Colvin, a 2009 Walla Walla Valley Academy graduate and former Caring Heart award* recipient, walked through the Upper Columbia Academy registration doors firmly, yet humbly — declaring himself the "responsible party."Colvin's parents are disabl... Read more
