Children Raise Money For Bibles in India Children at the Medford, Ore., Adventist Church are mission-minded, and when they learned that Bibles were needed in India, they planned an event to raise money.Hosting a “Family Night at the Movies,” the children and their dedicated teachers set ... Read more
Silverton Community Honors Adventists Cathey Defehr and Ramona Resseger, co-directors of Silverton, Ore., Adventist Community Services, recently accepted an honorary plaque from Silverton Together, a volunteer organization.The plaque commemorates the cooperation between the church and... Read more
Three-pronged Evangelism Outreach Brings Estacada Response “All I have to do, to start a positive conversation, is mention the Yellow House,” said Wes Clark when he returned from passing out “Hope for the Homeland” prophecy seminar flyers in Estacada, Ore.“Everyone in town seems to know about the good wor... Read more
Adventists Well Represented At Clatsop County Fair More than 175 fair-goers received free health screenings at the Adventist Community Health Van, during Clatsop County Fair this summer in Astoria, Ore.Others visited Adventist-manned booths that featured Adventist education and the ministry of Adv... Read more
Long Time Coming “How long have you been coming to the Oregon Camp Meeting at Gladstone?” Marguerite Ringering was asked this summer.“Well,” replied the 93-year-old Gladstone Park Adventist Church member, “we came from Brainard, Minn., in 1934 and started going to... Read more
Waiting on the Lord Valerie Chase, 9, was baptized this spring, after a two-year wait.When her father was baptized and joined the Hood River, Ore., Church two years ago, Valerie, too wanted to be baptized, but then-local-pastor Steve McHan had a special dedicatory se... Read more
Cedar Creek Baptism During worship services at the Cedar Creek Church in Washington, members were blessed as Mindy Lorraine Nogle was baptized by Pastor Marty Jackson. Nogle’s grandparents and other relatives attended the special service. • Read more
Faithful Landscapers After 23 years of landscaping and maintaining the Gladstone Park Adventist Church grounds, Ervin and Vadah Dunn have retired. They were honored during a church potluck with a special cake and testimonies by friends and family. There, the Dunns wer... Read more
Pleasant Hill Hosts "Extreme" VBS The Pleasant Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oregon was transformed into a “10-foot mountain of faith” for vacation Bible school (VBS) students this summer. Read more