Oregon Congregation Raises $15,000 to Build "One-Day" Churches This is the answer we have been waiting for!" exclaim church leaders around the globe. According to Maranatha's data, more than 100,000 Seventh-day Adventist congregations do not have permanent church buildings. Maranatha and Adventist-Laymen's Se... Read more
Milo Reads the B-I-B-L-E It’s a fantastic sight to walk through the administration building at Milo Academy and see students reading Bibles. If you walk into the Campus Ministries office, you might find a group of seven or eight reading aloud to each other. Sitting in the... Read more
Campmeeting Earliteens Win Award Earliteens attending camp meeting last summer in Gladstone, Ore., received an award in December 2008, from the City of Gladstone. Wade Byers, Gladstone mayor, and Frank Grace, Gladstone chief of police, presented a certificate to Rhonda Whitney, O... Read more
Bonanza Youth Bring Holiday Help The Bonanza Pathfinders and Adventurers provided Thanksgiving boxes and fruit baskets for 20 families. For one family this was their last Thanksgiving together as the father had only a few weeks to live. In addition, the overwhelming opportunity c... Read more
Ronan Church Members Serve Their Community Ronan Church members have been singing at St. Luke's Nursing Home one Sabbath a month for the last six years. Russ Jenkins, head deacon, started this tradition. Jenkins also involves members with Mission Mountain Enterprises.MME is a nonprofit org... Read more
New Havre Church Opens More than 94 church and community members came together on Sabbath, Jan. 24, to mark the opening of a new church building and to welcome a new pastoral family to the Havre, Mont., congregation. The building fulfills a dream to have a church, parso... Read more
Weiser Ladies Prepare Bags for Foster Children Women in Weiser, Idaho, have an outreach project making bags for foster children, which contain a handmade quilt, stuffed toys, personal items, coloring books, crayons and other toys. Usually, when a child is taken from a home, there isn't time to... Read more
Gem State Academy Students Learn Family Living Skills Gem State Adventist Academy students have many opportunities to learn family living skills. For a few weeks senior Bible class focuses on marriage and family. In one activity the seniors care for babies. They take pretend infants to class, work an... Read more
Sitka Teacher Rings Chimes in Tobago The Mt. Pleasant Adventist Church had a problem. In their small West Indies' town on the island of Tobago, illiteracy and drugs are rampant. Unwilling to lose youth, church leaders made a plan: Operation Mustard Seed. The church would start a musi... Read more