Why Olivia is at Mount Ellis Academy I have to admit that at the end of my eighth grade year, Mount Ellis Academy was the last place I ever thought I would be. I’m so glad that I listened to God when He told me to come here. I love Mount Ellis. I see so many teens like myself changed... Read more
Mount Ellis Academy Food Drive Impresses the Community Mount Ellis Academy (MEA) girls’ club recently hosted a food drive at local grocery stores for the Gallatin County Food Bank. Students decorated boxes, created signs, and made flyers requesting that customers purchase non-perishable items to contr... Read more
Blessings at Idaho Conference Christian Womens Retreat Blessings at Idaho Conference Christian Women’s Retreat Read more
Praise in the Park, An End-of-the-Summer OutreachOasis Style "Why not have church in the park some Sabbath?” thought a father as he ate lunch with his daughter in the park. A few months later, that father was working as the youth director for the Oasis Church in Boise. He presented the idea to the church as... Read more
Tentmaker Wanted Native Americans Embrace Adventism It was a cold and windy day with almost freezing temperatures when Rick Binford, pastor of the Savoonga, Gambel, and Selawik churches, conducted a baptism outside the little Adventist church in Savoonga, a village of 800 people situated along the ... Read more
Cheri Peters Speaks to Women and Youth The fifth annual Aleknagik Women’s Retreat was held Sept. 24–27 on Aleknagik Island, which is accessible only by a boat ride from the mouth of Lake Aleknagik. “God feels very close out there away from the noise and people of the town,” reported Be... Read more
Maranatha Convention Project: Big Lake Youth Camp More than 100 volunteers occupied Big Lake Youth Camp in Sisters, Ore., Sept. 22–Oct. 7 for the Maranatha Convention mission project. Volunteers, who stayed in RVs or camp cabins for the duration of the project, worked on renovations throughout th... Read more
Maranatha Fast Facts • The 2004 Convention celebrated the 35th anniversary of the organization.• Maranatha was founded in 1969 by John Freeman, then a resident of Berrien Springs, Michigan.• Over the years, Maranatha has mobilized 55,000 volunteers in 61 countries.• I... Read more
North Pacific Missionaries Testify at Maranatha Convention The inevitable rustlings of a crowd of more than 600 people dissolved into silence at the words of Ken Lauren, family practice physican from Redmond, Wash.“I think I represent a significant number of people who had left the Adventist Church and we... Read more
