Volunteer Teacher Falls in Love With Alaska Though being paid nothing, Misty Rowe has been fully responsible for a classroom of kindergarten through second-grade students this past year. She was not even given her own place to live. On top of teaching full-time in the Dillingham Adventist S... Read more
MVAS Museum Project Brings Historical Characters to Life Palmer Church members and the community had an opportunity to rub shoulders with Queen Elizabeth I at the Living History Museum presented by Sherry Daily, teacher, and the Mat Valley Adventist School on March 8. Other historical characters represe... Read more
Anchorage Students Collect Money Anchorage Junior Academy students are responding to the hunger of the children of South Africa by collecting funds for the North American Division "On Their Own But Not Alone" education project. Some students emptied their piggy banks while others... Read more
Nome Student Shares the Word Michael Owens, an eighth-grade student, is truly in a class by himself, particularly since he is the only student in the Nome Adventist School (the school will be closing at the end of the year). But that has not stopped Owens from seeking new adv... Read more
Samoans Organize Church Consecrate New Facility It was a dream, and on Sabbath, Feb. 9, the dream came true. In 2001, when Lauilo Poua moved to Anchorage, Alaska, as the pastor of the 37-member group, he dreamed one day they would have their own building and be a full-fledged church. In Februar... Read more
Arctic Evangelism Defies Winter's Blast Despite being greeted by frigid Arctic air, on Feb. 11, Brian and Denise Bechthold, Northwest Native evangelists, and Rick Binford, Nome, Gambell and Savvoonga district pastor, landed in Gambell, Alaska, to conduct the third series of evangelistic... Read more
Adventist Presence Prominent At Dillingham Health Fair The morning started early, and participants were out of the house and into the dark and cold before 7 a.m. The fair was waiting.On Feb. 8, the town of Dillingham held their annual health fair in the high school gym, and the Adventist church joined... Read more
Cello Concert Treat For Delta Junction The last weekend in 2007 found Sharon Staddon, Alaska Conference treasurer, and her husband Thearon, an accountant, braving cold temperatures to travel between Anchorage and Delta Junction to participate in what is undoubtly the coldest Adventist ... Read more
Arctic Church Ordains Local Leadership Time is past due for local Native Alaskan people to be empowered to provide leadership for the small Adventist groups in their villages," says Jim Kincaid, an Adventist lay member who returned to the remote village of Kotzebue after a number of ye... Read more
