June 2016 About this issue: Adventist Community Services volunteers encompass all ages, genders and nationalities. They are the heart and soul of every community outreach effort. Read more about what they do around the Northwest in our June Gleaner feature. Feature SIDEBAR: The ACS Quiz August 10, 2016 Are you SURE? Take this True/False ACS quiz! Read Online | Download PDF (8.6 MB) More Features Portland Adventist Community Services Portland Adventist Community Services is one of the largest Adventist Community Services centers in North America yet continues to meet clients’ individual needs with warmth and caring — physically, mentally and spiritually, following Christ’s exa... Read more Adventist Community Services: Volunteering With a Purpose Strong and enduring, yet flexible enough to meet an individual community’s changing needs, Adventist Community Services (ACS) is one of our denomination’s longest-running ministries. While the ways we express Christian compassion must adapt in ord... Read more Others What Good Is Diversity? When the Apostle Paul described God’s church as a body with differing parts, but of equal value, I believe he was onto something we too often forget. Diversity doesn’t have to pull us apart. Instead, it can add color and new insights to both our c... Read more De León Begins Hispanic and Ministerial Role César De León will begin a new role in June as the North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) vice president for Hispanic ministries and director of ministerial and evangelism efforts. De León will be coming to the NPUC from the Central California Conf... Read more 2016 NW Prison Ministry Retreat This year’s Northwest Prison Ministry Retreat brought ministry teams to Gladstone, Ore., during the first weekend of April. Nearly 100 volunteers from churches around the Northwest welcomed this opportunity for fellowship and inspiration. Read more Providence Providence has often been a stumbling block for the human experience. Advent believers in the early 1840s saw God’s providence in Scripture preparing an escape from the trials of a wicked world. Read more Why You Need Church More Than Internet People stay “in touch” with machines more than people. Of course someone will protest this point, reminding me that people stay in touch with people by touching their machines; but that only proves my point. Our relationships have becoming increas... Read more That's Grace Out of breath and dripping with rain, I leaned on a back-alley dumpster as the man I just met in a bar aimed a heroin needle at his bulging vein. Just then a police SUV rolled around the corner and splashed to a stop before us. Wincing as the wind... Read more News Tormenta de Bendiciones Para Nuevo Distrito en Idaho Employees Shred Pounds in Weight Loss Competition Camp Meeting Provides Spring Break for Village Youth Anchorage Members Hold Convocation Golden Eagles Discover God Cares About Weather Adventurers Enjoy Family Camp Experience Mount Ellis Elementary Takes D.C. Trip Montana Pathfinders Hold Fair Oregon Hosts Young Adult Retreat Portland Women's Expo Gets Unexpected Vendor PAA Teacher Honored by COFTL CAA Filmmakers Win Big in Texas TurningPoint, Glide Youth Hit the Streets for Global Youth Day Milo Hosts Second Arts and Technology Camp UCC Annual Camp Meeting UCA Academy Day Offers Fun, Education UCA Honors Grandparents With Music, Art Young People Hold Northwest Youth Conference CCA Students Return to Belize WWU Opens Center to Uplift All Races, Ethnicities and Cultures Big Picture of Ministry Parousia Completes House of Prayer Prayers Answered by Skagit’s Homeland Mission AAA Students Offer Gifts of Service Olympia Christian School Launches Honor Society LCAS Hosts Career Fair Mission Trips Introduce Students to Service
Portland Adventist Community Services Portland Adventist Community Services is one of the largest Adventist Community Services centers in North America yet continues to meet clients’ individual needs with warmth and caring — physically, mentally and spiritually, following Christ’s exa... Read more
Adventist Community Services: Volunteering With a Purpose Strong and enduring, yet flexible enough to meet an individual community’s changing needs, Adventist Community Services (ACS) is one of our denomination’s longest-running ministries. While the ways we express Christian compassion must adapt in ord... Read more
What Good Is Diversity? When the Apostle Paul described God’s church as a body with differing parts, but of equal value, I believe he was onto something we too often forget. Diversity doesn’t have to pull us apart. Instead, it can add color and new insights to both our c... Read more
De León Begins Hispanic and Ministerial Role César De León will begin a new role in June as the North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) vice president for Hispanic ministries and director of ministerial and evangelism efforts. De León will be coming to the NPUC from the Central California Conf... Read more
2016 NW Prison Ministry Retreat This year’s Northwest Prison Ministry Retreat brought ministry teams to Gladstone, Ore., during the first weekend of April. Nearly 100 volunteers from churches around the Northwest welcomed this opportunity for fellowship and inspiration. Read more
Providence Providence has often been a stumbling block for the human experience. Advent believers in the early 1840s saw God’s providence in Scripture preparing an escape from the trials of a wicked world. Read more
Why You Need Church More Than Internet People stay “in touch” with machines more than people. Of course someone will protest this point, reminding me that people stay in touch with people by touching their machines; but that only proves my point. Our relationships have becoming increas... Read more
That's Grace Out of breath and dripping with rain, I leaned on a back-alley dumpster as the man I just met in a bar aimed a heroin needle at his bulging vein. Just then a police SUV rolled around the corner and splashed to a stop before us. Wincing as the wind... Read more