SAGE Volunteers Paint Historic Adventist Village Since beginning 15 years ago, Seniors in Action for God with Excellence has made a difference in communities locally, nationally and internationally.Recently, nine SAGE volunteers from the Pacific Northwest, with an average age of 70, traveled to ... Read more
Medical Volunteers Treat 3,000 in the Philippines Greater Seattle Filipino-American Church members completed their seventh medical-dental mission trip to the Philippines this year. The 40-person, Seattle-based medical team, led by Grace Gamponia, a Seattle-area doctor, includes medical doctors, d... Read more
Russian Church Grows Spiritual Gifts The Tacoma Russian Center for Spiritual Development is one of the newest churches in the Washington Conference.The congregation began as a ministry of the Russian church in Bellevue when a number of members from the Tacoma area began a Russian-spe... Read more
Spirit of Service AAA's Auto Mech Class Impacts Community Every evening the sound of students hard at work in Spady Hall's auto mechanic shop echoes throughout Auburn Adventist Academy's campus.Joe McWilliam, instructor, informed his class at the beginning of the year that their assignment was to get a c... Read more
Bing and Lizzi Receive Pastoral Commissions Washington Conference commissioned two pastors in May.Growing up as the youngest of four children in a home where her parents were Seventh-day Adventist converts, Judy (Cuccia) Lizzi never aspired to be a pastor's wife or attain recognition in min... Read more
Equally Yoked More than two hundred years of marriage and service The three Gerking siblings count over two hundred years of marriage between them. With that kind of record, Marjie, Darlene, and Duane owe a lot to the solid foundation laid by their parents.It all began when an adventuresome young lady came west ... Read more
Crossw@lk Youth Lead River Rescue The weekend of June 7 was like the previous three — Sunday river rafting with the Wenatchee (Wash.) Adventist Church youth group also known as Crossw@lk. The rafting trip was different in one way though: participants rescued four rafters whose boa... Read more
From Mexico To Wapato A Mission Trip Takes a U-Turn When the Walla Walla City Church’s mission trip to Mexico fell through this spring, little did they know what God had in store for them.“We had planned to return to Nogales, Mexico, where we built a church in December of 2007,” says Mark Etchell, ... Read more
Post Falls Hosts Memorial Day Service Major Andrew C. Pak, senior Protestant chaplain of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing, at Fairchild Air Force base in Spokane, Wash., was the keynote speaker for a special Memorial Day weekend at the Post Falls (Idaho) Adventist Church. Pak is a graduate... Read more
