August 2002

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Whatever Happened to the

August 01, 2002  | Joe Willey
By most counts, the '50s was a great time to be alive. World War II was over. Europe was emerging from ruins. The economy was booming. Jobs were plentiful.But it wasn't all roses. Perhaps the greatest fear for Pacific Northwesterners was that the ...

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  • It Takes a Team

    August 01, 2002
    High-schooler Patricia was miserable at home, physically, mentally, and verbally abused by her step-father. Her grades were dropping, and life at home had become unbearable.“I doubted that I would live to see adulthood,” she remembers, “and at tim...
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  • Whatever Happened to the

    By most counts, the '50s was a great time to be alive. World War II was over. Europe was emerging from ruins. The economy was booming. Jobs were plentiful.But it wasn't all roses. Perhaps the greatest fear for Pacific Northwesterners was that the ...
    Read more

  • Whatever Happened to the

    By most counts, the '50s was a great time to be alive. World War II was over. Europe was emerging from ruins. The economy was booming. Jobs were plentiful.But it wasn't all roses. Perhaps the greatest fear for Pacific Northwesterners was that the ...
    Read more

  • Student Scholarships

    August 01, 2002
    No student who really wants to attend this Adventist school and is willing to work hard to be here will be turned away for financial reasons. No one.Hard times. Skidding stock markets. Flat sales. Threatened layoffs. Unemployment. The temptation t...
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  • Student Scholarships

    August 01, 2002
    No student who really wants to attend this Adventist school and is willing to work hard to be here will be turned away for financial reasons. No one.Hard times. Skidding stock markets. Flat sales. Threatened layoffs. Unemployment. The temptation t...
    Read more

Others

  • This month in history

    August 01, 2002
    The following events took place during the month of August:1821Missouri is admitted as the 24th state.1894The United States administration of Grover Cleveland recognizes the Republic of Hawaii.1926Gertrude Ederle of the United States becomes the f...
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  • Christian Education It Takes a Team

    August 01, 2002
    Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders this month are turning their attention to a new school year, and they’re not alone.Committees are meeting, and boards are busy caring for physical plants and the needs of faculty they supervise. Parents are str...
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  • Blaring Walls & Falling Trumpets?

    August 01, 2002
    My kindergarten/preschool students in the Sutherlin, Ore., Adventist School just got through marching around the “Walls of Jericho.”They did it six silent times, then shouted. It’s a great Bible story we adults often regard as childish.But as my k...
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  • Interactive

    August 01, 2002
    Biblical Abortion?A Barna Research Group survey is quoted in the July GLEANER, noting "that Americans are comfortable legalizing activities—such as abortion, homosexuality and pornography—that they feel are immoral.”While the Bible explicitly cond...
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  • Christian Education It Takes a Team

    August 01, 2002
    Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders this month are turning their attention to a new school year, and they’re not alone.Committees are meeting, and boards are busy caring for physical plants and the needs of faculty they supervise. Parents are str...
    Read more

  • This month in history

    August 01, 2002
    The following events took place during the month of August:1821Missouri is admitted as the 24th state.1894The United States administration of Grover Cleveland recognizes the Republic of Hawaii.1926Gertrude Ederle of the United States becomes the f...
    Read more

  • Can you Swing it?

    I remember when a quarter got you a gallon of gas. A buck scored you a gallon of ice cream. And $4,107.45 paid for a new 1964 Ford Galaxie 500XL (I have my grandpa’s old car parked in my garage—the sticker price still in the glovebox).
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  • Interactive

    August 01, 2002
    Biblical Abortion?A Barna Research Group survey is quoted in the July GLEANER, noting "that Americans are comfortable legalizing activities—such as abortion, homosexuality and pornography—that they feel are immoral.”While the Bible explicitly cond...
    Read more

  • Blaring Walls & Falling Trumpets?

    August 01, 2002
    My kindergarten/preschool students in the Sutherlin, Ore., Adventist School just got through marching around the “Walls of Jericho.”They did it six silent times, then shouted. It’s a great Bible story we adults often regard as childish.But as my k...
    Read more

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