PACS Begins Restoring Smiles The Lord has been doing great things in the Portland Adventist Community Services (PACS) dental clinic as staff geared up to see patients by the first of May. With the building phase finished in the middle of April, they turned their sights to ins... Read more
Roseburg Junior Academy Gets Blue Zone Approval On Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, at 2:45 p.m., students at Roseburg Junior Academy (RJA) were joined by parents, church members and community members for an amazing blue ribbon-cutting and ceremony as the school celebrated its Blue Zone Approval. Roseb... Read more
Hundreds Receive Free Bibles at Women’s Expo The Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Ore., was filled with more than 400 vendors for the 2019 Portland Women’s Expo on March 2. The event is hosted as part of the larger Portland Women’s Expo Foundation, a nonprofit organization with the ulti... Read more
Meal of Hope Serve Much More Than Dinner There were only eight at the first dinner. By the second week, 18 arrived. Week after week, a few more trickled in. Word began to spread, and the numbers jumped to 100. A year later, in 2016, more than 200 people were attending Meal of Hope, a din... Read more
Deaf Christian Women's Ministry Prepares for Retreat In 2002, a group of deaf women decided to start a women’s retreat for deaf women in the Pacific Northwest. The deaf women are members of a completely different people group with their own rich language and culture. Read more
The Field Trip That Just Kept Giving It was an ordinary fall day for the students of Central Valley Christian School in Tangent, Ore. The Rich Room students (grades three through five) headed out with promotional postcards inviting the surrounding neighborhoods to the school's upcomi... Read more
Hillsboro Spanish Helps Reconnect Families On a chilly January morning, 280 people gathered at Holden Convention Center in Gladstone, Ore., in anticipation of welcoming family members they hadn’t seen in 10 or more years. Years before those gathered had immigrated to the United States, lea... Read more
The PAA Gospel Choir Mission “The look on their faces when they first join the choir is nervousness,” says Drechelle McCray, an English teacher at Portland (Ore.) Adventist Academy (PAA) and the director of the school’s Gospel Choir club. Read more