Port Angeles Purchases Church Building The Port Angeles (Wash.) Church purchased a vacant church in September 2011 from the First Church of Christ Scientist. The building includes a larger sanctuary, fellowship hall and parking area but lacks classrooms, handicapped restrooms, kitchen ... Read more
Youth Rally Helps Teens Grow in Faith Teenagers stood at the entrance of a classroom building and called out to their peers to "come understand more about the gospel" or "distribute GLOW tracts door to door."Classrooms filled up as hundreds of teens, parents and youth leaders selected... Read more
Skagit Academy Gives Christmas to the Community Skagit Adventist Academy (SAA) in Burlington, Wash., invited 150 low-income community families to a special Christmas party in early December 2011. Read more
Adventist Volunteers Rebuild Hope in New Orleans Eighteen people from the North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) participated in a homeland mission trip in November 2011 to rehabilitate homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.This was the third Katrina rebuilding trip hosted by the Adventist... Read more
Auburn Focuses on Community During Holidays Auburn (Wash.) Adventist Academy focused on the community during the holiday season as a way to give back and make a difference.The academy has partnered with the Auburn Academy Church for the last six years to bring the Nativity story to life at ... Read more
The Big Picture of Ministry 2012 prayer initiatives: church growth, financial stewardship, spiritual gift application, school enrollment and the Holy Spirit's outpouring.Discover more:washingtonconference.org Read more
Church Planting Thrives in Western Washington A congregation begins as a group, grows into a company and finally becomes a full-status church. This process can take a short or long period of time."We have a church-planting committee that works with people interested in starting a new Seventh-... Read more
Emerald City Reconnects With Members As part of its strategic plan for ministry, the Emerald City Community Church (ECC) in Seattle, Wash., identified a goal to reconnect with missing and inactive members who for various reasons stopped attending.The reclamation ministry team, led by... Read more
God Alters Africa Mission-trip Plans Thirty SAGE Senior volunteers traveled to Zambia, Africa, in October 2011 to build the Jan Griffone Memorial School in Livingstone.God had other plans.Mission-trip plans changed with two travel delays and with school building supplies stuck in Mal... Read more
