Gladstone Park Serves the Community Visit the Gladstone Park Community Services Center on a Wednesday and you're likely to see nearly 33 families receiving food boxes. These families meet the guidelines of the local food bank and the federal government and range from six to 11 membe... Read more
Friendship Tournament Brings Out the Best The sound of referee whistles filled the Walla Walla University gym Feb. 5–7 as teams from 12 Adventist academies participated in the 2009 Friendship Basketball Tournament.Twelve Northwest schools participated, including three from Oregon Conferen... Read more
Dallas Discovers Missions and Miracles Icy roads along with a foot or two of snow didn't stop the Dallas Oregon Maranatha mission group from embarking on a mission to Fresia, Chile. On Dec. 21, 2008, they traveled through wintery weather to the Portland airport, only to find it was clo... Read more
Athletes. Students. Believers. The term "student athlete" is not an oxymoron at Milo Academy. The boys' varsity basketball team not only has good athletes, but is also loaded with academic talent. Nine of the 11 players are on the honor roll. The cumulative GPA for the team is ... Read more
Montanans Minister in the Dominican Republic San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, was the destination for 17 people from Montana in March for evangelistic meetings with the 2009 North Pacific Union Conference mission team. Members from Bozeman, Hamilton, Libby, Missoula and Mount Ellis ... Read more
Kuna Church Connects With the Community Beginning Jan. 3 and continuing through much of February, the Kuna Church held a series of public evangelistic meetings called Community Conversations LIVE. For seven weeks, on Sabbath mornings and Wednesday nights, Randy Maxwell, pastor, attempte... Read more
Torkelsen Gets a Firsthand Look When Max Torkelsen, North Pacific Union Conference president, arrived in Anchorage, Alaska, on a warm spring weekend recently, his first comments were "this beauty is amazing. I want to see a moose!"After preaching at the Northside Church, Torkels... Read more
World News Briefs - May 2009 Because this section doesn't amount to much without its page design, it is not available here. You can see the World News Briefs page for this month by looking in the print edition of GLEANER or by clicking on the PDF version. To get to the PDF ve... Read more
Forgiving Isn't Easy Professors Conclude Forgiveness Research Jesus told us we are to forgive 70 times seven—in other words, a whole lot! But is it really that simple?Pastoral and counseling experiences with people who have trouble forgiving others indicate knowing what Jesus said about our need to forgive d... Read more
