Nano Space Sharks Take Top Honors in Teamwork The Nano Space Sharks of Hoodview Junior Academy were awarded the trophy for teamwork at the ORTOP FIRST LEGO League Tournament on Dec. 3, 2006.Fourteen teams competed in the tournament at Intel Jones Farm Conference Center. Each team had built an... Read more
Cheri Peters, Former Drug Addict, Shares her Story With Inmates, Students The Coquille Church hosted Cheri Peters, author and founder of True Step Ministries, based in Kuna, Idaho, the weekend of Oct. 20, 2006. She spoke at the community building in Coquille on Friday night and again on Sabbath for the worship service a... Read more
Milo Welcomes New Staff Three new faculty members have joined the Milo family. Richard Carrigan is the new English Language Learning (ELL) Program Coordinator. Carrigan has 20 years of experience teaching in Adventist language schools in Asia. He is moving from Michigan,... Read more
Men of Faith Return to Milo Darold Bigger and Robert Folkenberg Make Alumni Weekend a Spiritual Feast Several hundred alumni returned to Milo Adventist Academy at its newly-scheduled homecoming time in October.Darold Bigger, Class of '62 and currently a Walla Walla College Theology department professor, spoke Friday night. He shared lessons he lea... Read more
Rivergate School Honors Veterans Rivergate Elementary School in Gladstone, Ore., hosted a Veterans Day Program for the community and school on Nov. 10, 2006.The program started with the Rivergate Band playing "American Spirit March." Ann Campbell, Rivergate School principal, welc... Read more
Tracy Wood Ordained Tracy Wood, Oregon Conference youth ministries associate director, was ordained on Oct. 14, 2006, at Big Lake Youth Camp. He and his wife Angelina were surrounded by friends, family and the Oregon Pathfinder leadership team.Monte Torkelsen, Oregon... Read more
Cars for Kids It was a cool but sunny autumn afternoon when Dan Patchin, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) development director, and Brian Gosney, vice principal of finance, made their way to Darrell Myers Auto Sales in Boring, Ore.Earlier that year, a donor cam... Read more
Portland Russian Seventh-day Adventists Organize as a Company The Portland Russian group became an official company on Oct. 7, 2006—the second step toward being organized as a church body.In the early 1990s, a Russian group of about nine people began to meet in the Tabernacle Church. In March of 1994 Pastor ... Read more
