July 2006 About this issue: Feature Lifesavers and Role Models July 01, 2006 | Mark Witas 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... Download PDF (11.08 MB) More Features 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... Read more 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... Read more 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... Read more UCAs Technology Program UCA’s Technology Program Read more 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. Read more UCAs Technology Program UCA’s Technology Program Read more 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. Read more UCA Technology sidebar Manual training should be connected with every school giving all young people practical knowledge of the most useful trades to further the gospel.Fabrication and welding students are currently working on the metal lettering for this Ellen G. White... Read more UCA Technology sidebar Manual training should be connected with every school giving all young people practical knowledge of the most useful trades to further the gospel.Fabrication and welding students are currently working on the metal lettering for this Ellen G. White... Read more 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 ... Read more Kirkland Teachers and Students Kirkland Teachers and Students Read more 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 ... Read more Kirkland Teachers and Students Kirkland Teachers and Students Read more Others Birds of the Northwest These birds are commonly seen in the Northwestern United States. How many can you identify? Photographs by Roger Windemuth of Brush Prairie, Washington. Answers on page??. Read more Is There an Adventist Advantage? For many decades, we have marketed our Adventist schools by quoting statistics and test scores. We talk about the more than 85 percent of our students who attend college and the more than 80 percent of those who begin college who complete a degree... Read more Birds of the Northwest These birds are commonly seen in the Northwestern United States. How many can you identify? Photographs by Roger Windemuth of Brush Prairie, Washington. Answers on page??. Read more The Moral Minority Karl Marx has been credited with the observation that capitalism is destructive since freedom of choice inevitably leads to wrong. Are trends in America, the bastion of world capitalism, proving him right?I'm no fan of Marx, yet certainly postmode... Read more Next Month Constituency SessionsDoes Your Opinion Really Count? With more than 90,000 members throughout the Northwest, how can a church member be heard in the union or local conference process of visioning and decision-making? Who gets to vote and does it really make any difference? Is it just church politics... Read more We Can Trust the Church In the Hands of the Next Generation In the Hands of the Next GenerationThis is my 18th year teaching in an Adventist boarding high school, dealing daily with teenagers. While some come from non-Christian or non-faith backgrounds, most are from second, third, up to sixth-generation A... Read more Is There an Adventist Advantage? For many decades, we have marketed our Adventist schools by quoting statistics and test scores. We talk about the more than 85 percent of our students who attend college and the more than 80 percent of those who begin college who complete a degree... Read more How I Became a Seventh-day Adventist Christian I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My dad was an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and was assigned to the World Health Organization malaria eradication project. My mom and dad were married about a year when I was born in the Adventist h... Read more Educational Directions Interstate 495, the beltway around Washington, D.C., was clogged. I sat in my Avis rental car thinking about how nice it is to live in Walla Walla (where the only traffic jam occurs at Dairy Queen when the Peanut Buster Parfait goes on sale). Read more The Moral Minority Karl Marx has been credited with the observation that capitalism is destructive since freedom of choice inevitably leads to wrong. Are trends in America, the bastion of world capitalism, proving him right?I'm no fan of Marx, yet certainly postmode... Read more Next Month Constituency SessionsDoes Your Opinion Really Count? With more than 90,000 members throughout the Northwest, how can a church member be heard in the union or local conference process of visioning and decision-making? Who gets to vote and does it really make any difference? Is it just church politics... Read more Alonzo T. Jones From Indian Fighter to Adventist Preacher At the age of 20, Alonzo T. Jones left his home in Rockhill, Ohio, and enlisted in the U.S. Army where he served in the Southwest before being transferred to Fort Vancouver in the Northwest. In January 1873, his company was transferred to northern... Read more We Can Trust the Church In the Hands of the Next Generation In the Hands of the Next GenerationThis is my 18th year teaching in an Adventist boarding high school, dealing daily with teenagers. While some come from non-Christian or non-faith backgrounds, most are from second, third, up to sixth-generation A... Read more How I Became a Seventh-day Adventist Christian I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My dad was an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and was assigned to the World Health Organization malaria eradication project. My mom and dad were married about a year when I was born in the Adventist h... 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Ellis Campus La Esperanza es Jesus [The Hope is Jesus] in Santa Cruz, Bolivia A Place To Grow Milo Graduates Accomplish the Mission PAA Student Displays Passion for Service in Senior Project Blessings and Miracles Experienced In Cancun World Awareness at CVCS We Are Family McMinnville School Comes to a Family's Aid You Can Make a Difference Strengthening our Schools CCA Mission Trip to Fiji Harris Junior Academy Volunteers A Vital Part of our Program St. Maries Christian School In its Second Year Hermiston Junior Academy Mission Trip Eighth-grade Class Serves Others in Ensenada, Mexico Mission 101 The Basics of Ministry Annual Marine Biology Trip Shows Students More of God Teacher Appreciation Week Gods Call A Perspective A Hand of God The Wilma Hepker School of Social Work and Sociology Blueprints and Boats Students Design Boats for Science Project Research Physics Field Trip AAA Students Get Hands-on Look at Medicine Small Enough for Big Activities Extracurricular Programs Enhance Academics at PSAA A Page from a Principal's Diary Three Powerful Responses to Education Sabbath Did You Know? School Year Snapshots Community Members Add to the Rich Fabric of Academic Life
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
UCA Technology sidebar Manual training should be connected with every school giving all young people practical knowledge of the most useful trades to further the gospel.Fabrication and welding students are currently working on the metal lettering for this Ellen G. White... Read more
UCA Technology sidebar Manual training should be connected with every school giving all young people practical knowledge of the most useful trades to further the gospel.Fabrication and welding students are currently working on the metal lettering for this Ellen G. White... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Birds of the Northwest These birds are commonly seen in the Northwestern United States. How many can you identify? Photographs by Roger Windemuth of Brush Prairie, Washington. Answers on page??. Read more
Is There an Adventist Advantage? For many decades, we have marketed our Adventist schools by quoting statistics and test scores. We talk about the more than 85 percent of our students who attend college and the more than 80 percent of those who begin college who complete a degree... Read more
Birds of the Northwest These birds are commonly seen in the Northwestern United States. How many can you identify? Photographs by Roger Windemuth of Brush Prairie, Washington. Answers on page??. Read more
The Moral Minority Karl Marx has been credited with the observation that capitalism is destructive since freedom of choice inevitably leads to wrong. Are trends in America, the bastion of world capitalism, proving him right?I'm no fan of Marx, yet certainly postmode... Read more
Next Month Constituency SessionsDoes Your Opinion Really Count? With more than 90,000 members throughout the Northwest, how can a church member be heard in the union or local conference process of visioning and decision-making? Who gets to vote and does it really make any difference? Is it just church politics... Read more
We Can Trust the Church In the Hands of the Next Generation In the Hands of the Next GenerationThis is my 18th year teaching in an Adventist boarding high school, dealing daily with teenagers. While some come from non-Christian or non-faith backgrounds, most are from second, third, up to sixth-generation A... Read more
Is There an Adventist Advantage? For many decades, we have marketed our Adventist schools by quoting statistics and test scores. We talk about the more than 85 percent of our students who attend college and the more than 80 percent of those who begin college who complete a degree... Read more
How I Became a Seventh-day Adventist Christian I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My dad was an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and was assigned to the World Health Organization malaria eradication project. My mom and dad were married about a year when I was born in the Adventist h... Read more
Educational Directions Interstate 495, the beltway around Washington, D.C., was clogged. I sat in my Avis rental car thinking about how nice it is to live in Walla Walla (where the only traffic jam occurs at Dairy Queen when the Peanut Buster Parfait goes on sale). Read more
The Moral Minority Karl Marx has been credited with the observation that capitalism is destructive since freedom of choice inevitably leads to wrong. Are trends in America, the bastion of world capitalism, proving him right?I'm no fan of Marx, yet certainly postmode... Read more
Next Month Constituency SessionsDoes Your Opinion Really Count? With more than 90,000 members throughout the Northwest, how can a church member be heard in the union or local conference process of visioning and decision-making? Who gets to vote and does it really make any difference? Is it just church politics... Read more
Alonzo T. Jones From Indian Fighter to Adventist Preacher At the age of 20, Alonzo T. Jones left his home in Rockhill, Ohio, and enlisted in the U.S. Army where he served in the Southwest before being transferred to Fort Vancouver in the Northwest. In January 1873, his company was transferred to northern... Read more
We Can Trust the Church In the Hands of the Next Generation In the Hands of the Next GenerationThis is my 18th year teaching in an Adventist boarding high school, dealing daily with teenagers. While some come from non-Christian or non-faith backgrounds, most are from second, third, up to sixth-generation A... Read more
How I Became a Seventh-day Adventist Christian I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My dad was an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and was assigned to the World Health Organization malaria eradication project. My mom and dad were married about a year when I was born in the Adventist h... Read more
