Clark Fork Church Members Make Christmas Mission Trip to Mexico In late December 2020, despite all the odds of it happening, Clark Fork Seventh-day Adventist Church members James Hunt and Yvonne Eller Hunt took off from Idaho for a two-week mission trip to Mexico. They flew to Cancun and were picked up by a lo... Read more
UCC Holds Successful Online Women’s Retreat In what is now the norm, the annual Upper Columbia Conference Fall Women’s and Young Women’s Retreat became a virtual event. However, with more than 600 streams of the event, more individuals were able to be blessed by this event than in any “norm... Read more
Upper Columbia Academy Celebrates Opening of the Wellness Center Upper Columbia Academy’s philosophy to educate the whole person has expanded to include an on-campus counseling and wellness center. Thanks to a $130,000 grant from generous donors, the Olin Peach Power House has been remodeled into a mental healt... Read more
God's Closet Spreads Winter Warmth In August 2020 we wrote about how we operated God’s Closet in the face of COVID-19. When October arrived, we began thinking about our November God’s Closet event. Nothing had changed as far as the pandemic was concerned. Should we offer another ev... Read more
Two Pastors Ordained in Upper Columbia Conference Two pastors were ordained to the gospel ministry in Upper Columbia Conference in December 2020 and January 2021. Read more
'All Is Well' at CCA Each year at Cascade Christian Academy in Wenatchee, Washington, students and staff plan church service programs to share with their six constituent churches. With the various pandemic restrictions that have come to pass over the last eight months... Read more
Godly Men 'Forged' at Retreat Summit Northwest Ministries in Post Falls, Idaho, advertised their "Forged" men’s gathering at Camp MiVoden as “a retreat for men who don’t go to retreats.” That tagline was effective in bringing together close to 60 guys from all across the North... Read more
Caring for Church Members in Need It was a cool morning in the mountains of Republic, Washington, when Yarrow Watkins, a longtime Republic Seventh-day Adventist Church member, threw a coat over her pajamas and hurried out the door to start the sprinkler on her lawn. After flipping... Read more
Pandemic Challenges Become Blessing for Free Dental Clinic The planning committee for Omak Seventh-day Adventist Church’s annual free dental clinic realized they had a real challenge on their hands. The church had previously hosted two dental clinics, using the equipment of nonprofit ministry Caring Hands... Read more
