Serving Those Who Have Served TCJA Reaches Out to Veterans in the Community Tri-City Junior Academy (TCJA) Home and School served up the seventh-annual Veteran's Day Breakfast bright and early on Nov. 11, 2011, for those who have served our country. With donations from several church members and a small grant from Wal-Mar... Read more
Kettle Falls Racks Up Miles for Let's Move Day When the North American Division (NAD) joined Michelle Obama's crusade against childhood obesity by setting aside Sept. 25, 2011, as Let's Move Day, the Kettle Falls (Wash.) Church joined the fight.Undaunted by occasional sprinkles, 38 participant... Read more
Pathfinder Camporee at Farragut Brings 114 Baptismal Requests Nearly 114 young people made requests to be baptized while attending the Upper Columbia Conference Pathfinder Camporee this year. The camporee, held at Farragut State Park near Athol, Idaho, was attended by more than 766 pathfinders from clubs acr... Read more
Irrigon Hosts 9/11 Concert The Irrigon (Ore.) Church hosted its second-annual gospel and patriotic concert on Sept. 11 at the Irrigon Marina Park on the Columbia River.The event included a color-guard service, patriotic songs and gospel singers and featured speakers Kris Pe... Read more
SHINE Graduation A First for Upper Columbia Conference The Upper Columbia Conference (UCC) graduated their first class of 10 students from the SHINE Bible Worker Training School on Sept. 17.They were congratulated by their teachers Steve Rogers, Dave Livermore, Jordana Ashburn and Eric Ramirez as well... Read more
Central Washington Men's Retreat to Lake Chelan Men from across central Washington gathered at the picturesque Camp Chelan during the first weekend in October for a powerful men’s retreat. The weekend focused on fathers in the Bible and was led by David Olson from Moses Lake, Wash., and Eric Ba... Read more
The Gospel in Diapers Diapers are a big deal at the Richland and Pasco (Wash.) churches. In some instances, people who haven't handled a diaper in years are now busy sorting, counting and bagging hundreds of diapers each month. They have become "experts" on the various... Read more
Wapato Spanish Organizes Church The Upper Columbia Conference celebrated with local Hispanic members in Wapato, Wash., during the organization ceremony of the Wapato Spanish Church on Oct. 15. The church, which originally formed as a small company several years ago, now has more... Read more
Unexpected Gifts From time to time, there are moments that capture the incredible privilege it is to work at Upper Columbia Academy (UCA). A recent encounter with a graduate of a neighboring high school is the perfect example.Cyrus requested a meeting to apologize... Read more
