July 2009 About this issue: Feature Caring Heart Award Winners for 2009 July 01, 2009 Fourteen Northwest academy students were recipients of the 2009 Caring Heart Award made possible through funding from a private foundation and the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Students were selected by schools for exemplifyin... Download PDF (9.87 MB) More Features Weighing Our Options It was hard enough on my dad when my mother joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but now she was asking him to move our family to another town so their kids could go to an Adventist school. This was more than he could take. He stormed into the... Read more Caring Heart Award Winners for 2009 Fourteen Northwest academy students were recipients of the 2009 Caring Heart Award made possible through funding from a private foundation and the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Students were selected by schools for exemplifyin... Read more Weighing Our Options It was hard enough on my dad when my mother joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but now she was asking him to move our family to another town so their kids could go to an Adventist school. This was more than he could take. He stormed into the... Read more CognitiveGenesis You've overheard the comments: "It would really strap us to send our kids to church school, and they'll get a better education in public school, anyway. They'll get their religious training at home and at church."Or perhaps this sentiment: "The te... Read more CognitiveGenesis You've overheard the comments: "It would really strap us to send our kids to church school, and they'll get a better education in public school, anyway. They'll get their religious training at home and at church."Or perhaps this sentiment: "The te... Read more Feature Box 1 Shane Anderson, former Northwest pastor and author of How to Kill Adventist Education, takes a hard look at the root causes of the challenges plaguing Adventist schools. Anderson proposes a simple strategy for change and several schools who have s... Read more Feature Box 1 Shane Anderson, former Northwest pastor and author of How to Kill Adventist Education, takes a hard look at the root causes of the challenges plaguing Adventist schools. Anderson proposes a simple strategy for change and several schools who have s... Read more Feature Box 2 Relational Factors Connect to AchievementAs researchers continue to assess relational and environmental factors connected to achievement, they have been interested in several preliminary findings.Students exhibit superior achievement when:They att... Read more Feature Box 2 Relational Factors Connect to AchievementAs researchers continue to assess relational and environmental factors connected to achievement, they have been interested in several preliminary findings.Students exhibit superior achievement when:They att... Read more Others Did You Know - July 2009 Because this section doesn't amount to much without its page design, it is not available here. You can see the Did You Know? page for this month by looking in the print edition of GLEANER or by clicking on the PDF version. To get to the PDF versio... Read more Proof in the Pudding I started my church school experience in a one-room school in the basement of the Jamestown Church in North Dakota—twenty-one kids representing six of the eight grades available. And I don't feel one bit persecuted. I, "Maxie Carle" Torkelsen, lov... Read more Proof in the Pudding I started my church school experience in a one-room school in the basement of the Jamestown Church in North Dakota—twenty-one kids representing six of the eight grades available. And I don't feel one bit persecuted. I, "Maxie Carle" Torkelsen, lov... Read more An Encouraging Word Bruce was a failure. That's what he'd overheard the fifth-grade teacher say. Another strike against him. Times were rough at school and home. His mom, attempting to raise three kids alone on a nonexistent budget, was barely coping with an emotiona... Read more Did You Know - July 2009 Because this section doesn't amount to much without its page design, it is not available here. You can see the Did You Know? page for this month by looking in the print edition of GLEANER or by clicking on the PDF version. To get to the PDF versio... Read more FYI July 2009 Montana ABC ClosesPacific Press® retail closed its Montana Adventist Book Center on June 21, 2009. Service will continue at camp meetings, through mail order, and through book mobiles that visit churches on a regular basis.Betty Britton, Idaho ABC... Read more Acción El evangelio es como una 'enfermedad' que cuando se contagia no reconoce antibiótico La iglesia de Vancouver, Washington es una iglesia especial. Hace apenas 4 años, se reunían menos de 20 personas en el culto del Sábado. Bajo el liderazgo del pastor Juan Francisco Altamirano, la iglesia de Vancouver ahora cuenta con una asistenci... Read more FYI July 2009 Montana ABC ClosesPacific Press® retail closed its Montana Adventist Book Center on June 21, 2009. Service will continue at camp meetings, through mail order, and through book mobiles that visit churches on a regular basis.Betty Britton, Idaho ABC... Read more An Encouraging Word Bruce was a failure. That's what he'd overheard the fifth-grade teacher say. Another strike against him. Times were rough at school and home. His mom, attempting to raise three kids alone on a nonexistent budget, was barely coping with an emotiona... Read more Acción El evangelio es como una 'enfermedad' que cuando se contagia no reconoce antibiótico La iglesia de Vancouver, Washington es una iglesia especial. Hace apenas 4 años, se reunían menos de 20 personas en el culto del Sábado. Bajo el liderazgo del pastor Juan Francisco Altamirano, la iglesia de Vancouver ahora cuenta con una asistenci... Read more News Defining Moments, Touching Lives: Pre-med Students Help Hospice Patients Northwest Women's Ministries Announces New Directors Dillingham Experiences a Pizza Miracle Kodiak Church Launches Fishers of Men Ministry Amazing Adventures Attracts Salmon Children Spiritual Renaissance Builds Momentum Timberline Students Win Poster Awards Nampa Church 16th annual Spring Music Concert Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Speaks at Mount Ellis Academy Milo Student Discovers the Greater Good Bald Butte Survives Close Shave for Worthy Cause CAA Selects Students-of-the-Year Livingstone Student's Testimony Impacts Classmate PAA Credits Feeder Schools for High Test Scores PAA Students Find Service Impacts Hearts PAES Welcomes Pastor Pat Milligan The Kelso-Longview Community Celebrates Easter Coeur d'Alene Hosts Streams of Light Education Rally East Wenatchee Health Classes Draw a Crowd Merritt Receives Student-of-the-Year Award Orofino Holds Gardening Seminar Spokane Valley Portrays Journey to the Cross WWVA Reaches Out to the Community Adventist-Christian Fellowship's Mission Trip to Kauai A Life of Learning WWU's Oldest Student Turns 99 GRAPH: State of Washington Conference Schools, 2008-2009 School Campuses Improve Learning Facilities Students Learn Art of Service White Earns Doctorate Auburn Cooks Up Innovative Education World News Briefs - July 2009
Weighing Our Options It was hard enough on my dad when my mother joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but now she was asking him to move our family to another town so their kids could go to an Adventist school. This was more than he could take. He stormed into the... Read more
Caring Heart Award Winners for 2009 Fourteen Northwest academy students were recipients of the 2009 Caring Heart Award made possible through funding from a private foundation and the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Students were selected by schools for exemplifyin... Read more
Weighing Our Options It was hard enough on my dad when my mother joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but now she was asking him to move our family to another town so their kids could go to an Adventist school. This was more than he could take. He stormed into the... Read more
CognitiveGenesis You've overheard the comments: "It would really strap us to send our kids to church school, and they'll get a better education in public school, anyway. They'll get their religious training at home and at church."Or perhaps this sentiment: "The te... Read more
CognitiveGenesis You've overheard the comments: "It would really strap us to send our kids to church school, and they'll get a better education in public school, anyway. They'll get their religious training at home and at church."Or perhaps this sentiment: "The te... Read more
Feature Box 1 Shane Anderson, former Northwest pastor and author of How to Kill Adventist Education, takes a hard look at the root causes of the challenges plaguing Adventist schools. Anderson proposes a simple strategy for change and several schools who have s... Read more
Feature Box 1 Shane Anderson, former Northwest pastor and author of How to Kill Adventist Education, takes a hard look at the root causes of the challenges plaguing Adventist schools. Anderson proposes a simple strategy for change and several schools who have s... Read more
Feature Box 2 Relational Factors Connect to AchievementAs researchers continue to assess relational and environmental factors connected to achievement, they have been interested in several preliminary findings.Students exhibit superior achievement when:They att... Read more
Feature Box 2 Relational Factors Connect to AchievementAs researchers continue to assess relational and environmental factors connected to achievement, they have been interested in several preliminary findings.Students exhibit superior achievement when:They att... Read more
Did You Know - July 2009 Because this section doesn't amount to much without its page design, it is not available here. You can see the Did You Know? page for this month by looking in the print edition of GLEANER or by clicking on the PDF version. To get to the PDF versio... Read more
Proof in the Pudding I started my church school experience in a one-room school in the basement of the Jamestown Church in North Dakota—twenty-one kids representing six of the eight grades available. And I don't feel one bit persecuted. I, "Maxie Carle" Torkelsen, lov... Read more
Proof in the Pudding I started my church school experience in a one-room school in the basement of the Jamestown Church in North Dakota—twenty-one kids representing six of the eight grades available. And I don't feel one bit persecuted. I, "Maxie Carle" Torkelsen, lov... Read more
An Encouraging Word Bruce was a failure. That's what he'd overheard the fifth-grade teacher say. Another strike against him. Times were rough at school and home. His mom, attempting to raise three kids alone on a nonexistent budget, was barely coping with an emotiona... Read more
Did You Know - July 2009 Because this section doesn't amount to much without its page design, it is not available here. You can see the Did You Know? page for this month by looking in the print edition of GLEANER or by clicking on the PDF version. To get to the PDF versio... Read more
FYI July 2009 Montana ABC ClosesPacific Press® retail closed its Montana Adventist Book Center on June 21, 2009. Service will continue at camp meetings, through mail order, and through book mobiles that visit churches on a regular basis.Betty Britton, Idaho ABC... Read more
Acción El evangelio es como una 'enfermedad' que cuando se contagia no reconoce antibiótico La iglesia de Vancouver, Washington es una iglesia especial. Hace apenas 4 años, se reunían menos de 20 personas en el culto del Sábado. Bajo el liderazgo del pastor Juan Francisco Altamirano, la iglesia de Vancouver ahora cuenta con una asistenci... Read more
FYI July 2009 Montana ABC ClosesPacific Press® retail closed its Montana Adventist Book Center on June 21, 2009. Service will continue at camp meetings, through mail order, and through book mobiles that visit churches on a regular basis.Betty Britton, Idaho ABC... Read more
An Encouraging Word Bruce was a failure. That's what he'd overheard the fifth-grade teacher say. Another strike against him. Times were rough at school and home. His mom, attempting to raise three kids alone on a nonexistent budget, was barely coping with an emotiona... Read more
Acción El evangelio es como una 'enfermedad' que cuando se contagia no reconoce antibiótico La iglesia de Vancouver, Washington es una iglesia especial. Hace apenas 4 años, se reunían menos de 20 personas en el culto del Sábado. Bajo el liderazgo del pastor Juan Francisco Altamirano, la iglesia de Vancouver ahora cuenta con una asistenci... Read more
