August 2016 About this issue: See how Pacific Press Publishing Association continues the mission it began in 1874. Feature Pacific Press and Present Truth: Still a Priority July 28, 2016 | Church | Karen Pearson Small Beginnings Read Online | Download PDF (6.8 MB) Others Maranatha As you look out across the landscape of our country and our world, it is enough to produce the biblical description of “men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth” (Luke 21:26). Read more Letters What About the Laptop? Read more Shadow Empire Series Impacts the Northwest In today’s media-saturated, on-demand landscape, many people wonder if evangelism still works. With all the choices people have at home, is it even possible to get them to walk through the doors of a church? Read more Sword Before the age of multiblade, aloe-infused, disposable razors, there was the “safety” razor. A vast improvement over the venerable but temperamental straight-edge razor, this implement was a thing of engineering beauty to any young lad who longed ... Read more Convocation Celebrates 40 Years of Blessings Hundreds of multicultural Northwest members gathered May 12–15 in Auburn, Wash., for the 40th annual North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) regional convocation with a theme of "The Time Is Now." This special gathering has decades-old roots in an o... Read more Fame Rush This summer, conference administrators allowed me to speak in the adult auditorium at camp meeting — the “adult table.” The experience left me with a variety of new things to reflect on. Read more When the Canaries Stop Singing Before modern technology, coal miners placed canaries in cages throughout their subterranean tunnels as an early warning against the invasion of carbon monoxide. The toxic gas often seeped into mines, odorless and thus undetected — until the songb... Read more News La Gran Comisión Memory Care Facilities Stimulate Memories With Innovative Spaces Students Enjoy Outdoor School, Alaskan-Style Amazing Grace Academy Graduates Second Senior Class Answered Prayers Keep Student in Adventist School Nine Baptized at Idaho Camp Meeting Mount Ellis Holds Cave Quest VBS Native American Camp Meeting Held in Poplar Starkebaums' Service Recognized Convocation Celebrates 40 Years of Blessings PAA Welcomes New Principal Former Member Returns Home Baptisms Grow Sutherlin Church Milo Students Take 'STAND' for God Evangelistic Series Crystalizes Need for Spanish Church in Grants Pass Redmond, Sisters Get New Pastor Fall Creek Provides Dental Care to Veterans Community Service Kicks Off UCC Hispanic Camp Meeting UCC Schools: Educating for Today and Eternity UCA Students Bring Bible to Life at Camp Meeting, VBS SonBridge: Consistent Mission, Expanded Vision Rogers Students Perform Bible Plays Shadow Empire Series Heals Rogers Elementary Welcomes New Staff WWU Receives Maximum Accreditation for Nursing Program WWU Begins Offering Cocurricular Transcript Art in Forest Park Big Picture of Ministry Buena Vista Students Assist Pediatric Center AAA Students Benefit From SEEK Today Foundation Grays Harbor, Choctaw Nation Honor Army Veteran Port Angeles Holds Campout Lacey Professionals Present Depression and Anxiety Recovery Program
Maranatha As you look out across the landscape of our country and our world, it is enough to produce the biblical description of “men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth” (Luke 21:26). Read more
Shadow Empire Series Impacts the Northwest In today’s media-saturated, on-demand landscape, many people wonder if evangelism still works. With all the choices people have at home, is it even possible to get them to walk through the doors of a church? Read more
Sword Before the age of multiblade, aloe-infused, disposable razors, there was the “safety” razor. A vast improvement over the venerable but temperamental straight-edge razor, this implement was a thing of engineering beauty to any young lad who longed ... Read more
Convocation Celebrates 40 Years of Blessings Hundreds of multicultural Northwest members gathered May 12–15 in Auburn, Wash., for the 40th annual North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) regional convocation with a theme of "The Time Is Now." This special gathering has decades-old roots in an o... Read more
Fame Rush This summer, conference administrators allowed me to speak in the adult auditorium at camp meeting — the “adult table.” The experience left me with a variety of new things to reflect on. Read more
When the Canaries Stop Singing Before modern technology, coal miners placed canaries in cages throughout their subterranean tunnels as an early warning against the invasion of carbon monoxide. The toxic gas often seeped into mines, odorless and thus undetected — until the songb... Read more
