Portland Adventist Academy News Notes • Since 1997, PAA has awarded $1,425,000.00 in personal scholarships to help students needing financial assistance.• For the student week of prayer, student speakers shared experiences from their personal walk with the Lord. They can be booked for... Read more
Young Blood Cassandra Lemke participated in the first blood drive at Rivergate Adventist Elementary School, Gladstone, Ore. on Feb. 28. Cassie, who turned 17 just a few days before, was so excited that she was finally old enough to give blood. A 2000 graduate... Read more
Lumberjack Preacher People of all ages—from 17 to 84—have joined our four mission trips to India. We have found something remarkable about people of any age: When they are willing to put themselves in God’s hands, it is amazing what God can do through them.Take for i... Read more
CAA Freshmen Make a Difference The Columbia Adventist Academy freshman class divided into two groups in February, for an all-day community service experience. Fourteen students bundled up in rain gear, ready to help their community and have a little fun. It had been raining all... Read more
God through Me Share the Warmth Oregon Conference Women’s Ministries recently held “God through Me…Share the Warmth” events at the Santa Clara, Sunnyside, Grants Pass, and Astoria churches using the theme of Colossians 4:4-6 NLT:Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly ... Read more
HVJA Student To go to Colonial Williamsburg on Word Power Zach Wade’s love of reading gave him a broad vocabulary which helped to propel him into the National Championship of the Reader’s Digest first Annual National Word Power Challenge held in March in Colonial Williamsburg, Va.Wade, 12 years old and a... Read more
Riverside Church Wins eChurch Award for February The web site of the Riverside Church in Washougal, Wash., received the eChurch Award for February 2003. The Riverside Church web site, www.riversidesda.com, is complete with a picture of the church, location information, and is easy to navigate th... Read more
The Northwest Brass Builds a Chapel and a Congregation in India “Build a church! Provide a spiritual home for hundreds of former idol worshippers in India! Meet them at last on the Sea of Glass! Our Northwest Adventist Brass Choir audience could fund this!” Last November Tom Tavasci, minister of music at the S... Read more
Sharon Pathfinder Color Guard Posts Colors for Ceremony Millions of American citizens around the nation, black and white, young and old, rich and poor, celebrated “The American Dream of Freedom” in a tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 19.In Portland, Ore., at the University of Portl... Read more
