Better Life Goes Live in Portland Portland, Ore.; Vancouver, Wash.; and Salem, Ore., tune your televisions to digital Channel 36 KEVE! As of 1:45 p.m. Wed., Oct. 20, Adventists now have a TV presence in the greater Portland and Salem areas. The Oregon Conference and Better Life Br... Read more
Better Life Goes Live in Portland - SIDEBAR What about the potential for additional channels?Better Life is planning on multicasting. Because the channel is digital, up to four channels can be fit on the bandwidth. The channel will start by broadcasting the 3ABN Channel that Better Life cur... Read more
First MinistryFest Draws a Crowd The concept of a MinistryFest generated a lot of questions, the most frequent one being: “What’s that?” And it’s a fair question, since we had never done anything like this before in the Oregon Conference. So we described it this way: “Discovering... Read more
A Year in Review for Bozeman Church We thought you should know some of what the Bozeman (Mont.) Church has been up to for the past church year.This moderate-sized church family has been increasing fellowship outside of the regular church service. The members have joined together in ... Read more
Montana Youth Hold Second Conference Following a great conference last year in Kalispell, Mont., the second-annual Montana Youth Conference met this year in Missoula, Mont. Speakers included: Matt Parra from the ARISE institute, Wes and Marion Peppers from Amazing Facts, and Justin H... Read more
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You In response to requests from women in Montana, Ruth Fish, Montana Conference women's ministry coordinator, arranged for a health seminar. She invited Michelle and Larry Lesher from the Black Hills Health and Education Center near Rapid City, S.D. ... Read more
The Dayville Story Big Miracles for a Small Town On the western edge of the Idaho Conference, the town of Dayville, Ore., enjoys a church plant valued at a replacement cost of more than $281,000. Average attendance is 12, with 15 members officially on the books. Their new fellowship hall, built ... Read more
Ghetto Preacher Engages Youth with GPS "God ... People ... Service ... GPS. Your journey as a youth will be more meaningful if you will allow God to make you more compassionate to your neighbors and serve your communities with enthusiasm." Willy Ramos, a.k.a. the "Ghetto Preacher," bro... Read more
New Bible Workers for Gambell Mike and Fran Hansen spent more than 25 years in the Springfield, Mo., area serving as Pathfinder leaders, directors and area coordinators. They had been on mission trips to La Vida Mission and the Bristol Bay area of Alaska and fell in love with ... Read more