Idaho Conference Camp Meeting Is Coming! Dan Jackson, North American Division president, is coming to Idaho Conference Camp Meeting. He is the evening and Sabbath morning speaker and will host a Q & A session with young adults on Sabbath afternoon. Camp Meeting is June 11–15, 2019, on th... Read more
Baptism in Helena Steve Parker, who had served as a Southern Baptist pastor for 20 years, was baptized by John Witcombe, Helena Church pastor, on May 26, 2018. Parker is currently active in ministry, preaching in the area churches. 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
Town Hall Meetings in UCC In advance of the Upper Columbia Conference (UCC) Constituency Session to be held Sept. 15, 2019, at Upper Columbia Academy, there will be six Town Hall meetings throughout the conference territory. Town Hall meetings are for every UCC member to c... 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
Small Church Dedicates New Building in Two Years A church has a dedication service when their building loan is paid off. For most, that takes several years. One small church in Long Creek, Ore., accomplished it in two years. In fact, they never went into debt in the first place. Read more
Dodds Presents Plenary Lecture at International Conference Greg Dodds, professor of history and chair of the Walla Walla University Department of History and Philosophy, gave the Roland Bainton Plenary Lecture at the 2018 annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, which met in Albuque... 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
