Better Life Goes Live in Portland Portland, Ore.; Vancouver, Wash.; and Salem, Ore., tune your televisions to digital Channel 36 KEVE! As of 1:45 p.m. Wed., Oct. 20, Adventists now have a TV presence in the greater Portland and Salem areas. The Oregon Conference and Better Life Br... Read more
Better Life Goes Live in Portland - SIDEBAR What about the potential for additional channels?Better Life is planning on multicasting. Because the channel is digital, up to four channels can be fit on the bandwidth. The channel will start by broadcasting the 3ABN Channel that Better Life cur... Read more
First MinistryFest Draws a Crowd The concept of a MinistryFest generated a lot of questions, the most frequent one being: “What’s that?” And it’s a fair question, since we had never done anything like this before in the Oregon Conference. So we described it this way: “Discovering... Read more
Afterglow is More Than a Milo Tradition The traditional Afterglow at Milo Adventist Academy has always included a group of students and staff who voluntarily stay after vespers on Friday night to sing songs and fellowship together.This year the singing is exceptional and the attendance ... Read more
Crater Lake Vacation For past and current members of the Gladstone Park (Ore.) Church, Crater Lake National Park has been a place where they vacation together. Members met together this Aug. 5–15.Park rangers explained the wonders of the park and showed films at the S... Read more
Avalanche Ranch in Redmond Oregon The Redmond (Ore.) Church held an evening Vacation Bible School in August this year. The theme was Avalanche Ranch. More than 21 children and 18 helpers participated in the adventure, which included playing on water slides on the last day. There w... Read more
PAA Boys' Retreat Teaching Boys to Become Men Portland Adventist Academy treated the boys in the junior class to a weekend in the wilderness with Mountain Leadership Institute.The purpose of the retreat was to inspire leadership and to give each student a sense of what it means to become a ma... Read more
A Birthday Party Becomes a Reunion It all started with organizer Marilyn Hoag Puccinelli, who thought it would be fun to celebrate several of her classmates' 70th birthdays this year. It turned into a Vincent Hill School reunion.VHS, located in Mussourie, India, hosted a variety of... Read more
Baptisms Follow The Dalles Youth Park Evangelism An amazing adventure in God’s Word was promised to local youth, ages 9–12, in The Dalles, Ore., during the last two weeks of June. An amazing adventure it was, not only for the youth, but for 17 church members who participated through leadership, ... Read more