Classroom B Can One Sabbath School Class Make a Difference? The atmosphere is charged in Classroom B. In just a few days the Medford Sabbath school class has raised $26,000 for church buildings in India. Matched by Merlin and Jo Ann Fjarli, members of the class, and again by Maranatha Volunteers Internatio... Read more
Columbia Academy Students Give the Gift of Life Students at Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) recently set a record for the highest percentage of eligible donors to volunteer to give blood. The American Red Cross requires that blood donors be at least 17 years old. David Allen, chairperson for C... Read more
Springfield Members Provide Thanksgiving Hospitality The week before Thanksgiving, members of the Springfield Church participated in a “guess whose coming to dinner” event. Some offered to be host homes, and others signed up to be guests. The guests did not know whose house they were going to for a ... Read more
PACS Volunteers Serve up Love Thanksgiving Style “That was the best Thanksgiving I’ve ever had.” “If we hadn’t come here, our family would not have had a Thanksgiving.” Those were just two of the comments heard last November as Portland Adventist Community Services (PACS) hosted community folks ... Read more
Better Life Television Gets a Better Station After more than two years of planning and fundraising, Better Life Television, based in Grants Pass, Ore., is finally getting to spread its wings—thanks to a new studio expansion and some help from volunteers.From Oct. 8–29, 2002, more than 70 vol... Read more
ECA Students Focus on World Cultures The study of world cultures has led to an arrangement whereby Emerald Christian Academy (ECA) students can help out at Pearl Buck Center, a local support facility for families and children with developmental disabilities.Emily Smith is shown as sh... Read more
Milo Celebrates Family Weekend The weekend of Nov. 15-17, 2002, at Milo Adventist Academy was filled with activities involving the family. The activities started Friday evening with a musical vespers, presented by Daniel Cobbs and the group “Eleventh Hour.”Daniel gave his perso... Read more
Albany Pathfinders Bear Up Well at Camporee Members of the Albany, Ore., Bears Pathfinder youth club report finding great joy and spiritual fulfillment during their long, scenic experience at Glacier National Park, during the North Pacific Union Conference Pathfinder Camporee.“It was an exp... Read more
Good news from India! As Weldon Mattison served as recent interim pastor at the Cedar Creek/Woodland Adventist churches, members were touched by his account of India’s need for chapels and voted to raise funds to build one.Dorothy Watts, who lives and works in India, s... Read more