PAA Seniors Help Cancer Patients Heidi Schnosig and Samantha Hamilton, Portland Adventist Academy seniors, knew they needed to complete a senior project to graduate. Hamilton had lost two close relatives to cancer, and both girls wanted to make a difference going beyond just earn... Read more
Havre Church Builds New Church The Havre (Mont.) Church has taken on the task of building a new church. They are making progress, but the building process has had challenges. As church members and the crew were preparing to lay the foundation, the heating contractor informed me... Read more
Mt. Ellis Academy Students Help in Guatemala On a brisk Sunday morning in November 2007, I said goodbye to my family and sleepily climbed onto the Mt. Ellis Academy bus with more than 35 fellow students and faculty. What followed was a grueling 36-hour journey by buses, planes, and boats to ... Read more
Nampa Church Honors Teachers and Elders With Shabbat Shalom Service The Nampa Church found a unique way to recognize the teachers and staff of Gem State Adventist Academy and Caldwell Adventist Elementary School. Also included were the spouses of the teachers, school staff and church elders. To honor them, the chu... Read more
Students Learn to Knit Help Community Teacher, can you teach me how to knit?" A simple question, but one that has third- and fourth-grade Caldwell Adventist Elementary School students using their talents to help people in need.Every year, my students ask me to teach them to knit. This... Read more
Mountain Home Church Celebrates Baptisms The Mountain Home Church held three baptisms recently.Kevin Osterhoff, 17 years old, was invited to attend Pathfinders by a younger member and became a member of the club. Recently, Osterhoff began baptismal classes with Dan Nelson, pastor, and de... Read more
Couple Reunited With God and Each Other The warmth and acceptance of an Adventist church in Meridian, Idaho, has helped a divorced couple renew their commitment to each other through marriage and to God through baptism. The divorce in fall of 2006 left Heidi and Jeremy Summerlin feeling... 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
