Bluebird Sabbath Bluebird Sabbath—What, is there a special Sabbath for Bluebirds? Well in a way there was for Yakima (Wash.) Church's juniors.David Rattray, who enjoys the challenge of inspiring children, makes bluebird houses and, from time to time, lets the juni... Read more
Area Annual Church in the Park Hundreds of Eugene, Springfield and Pleasant Hill, Ore., members gathered with their lawn chairs at Day Island Park on the Willamette River on August 9 for an outdoor worship service.The Springfield Church coordinated the worship service, while th... Read more
CAA Student Determined To Give At Columbia Adventist Academy’s fall blood drive in November 2002, junior Tom Wilson was ineligible to give because he did not meet the age eligibility requirement; he was not 17 years old. When David Allen, blood drive chairperson, was signing up... Read more
Farming Again at Milo When Eugene Mitchell, a local career farmer, approached the Milo Adventist Academy maintenance/grounds managers and asked whose job it was to keep up the farm, they responded, “The job’s yours!” At the time he wasn’t sure he even wanted the job, b... Read more
New Church in Monterrey, Mexico This new church was a joint effort, built over a period of four weeks. The Calimesa, Calif., group prepared the slab last fall; the Show Low, Ariz., group started the walls; the Stone Tower (Portland, Ore.) Church group along with groups from the ... Read more
Three New Members Join CAA Faculty Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) welcomes three new faculty members this year.Born and raised in Indiana, Anita Peterson attended church school from elementary through college at Southern Adventist University, where she obtained her bachelor's deg... Read more
PAA's Rock Climbers Tackle Central Oregon Eighteen students and four sponsors spent a week this summer defying gravity while suspended on the face of the well-known Smith Rocks in central Oregon. Organized by Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) chaplain Les Zollbrecht, the trip included dail... Read more
SCUBA Splashes Down at Columbia Gorge "It’s spooky in here”...”It’s so dark!”... “What’s that gurgly noise?” These were just some of the comments as youngsters crawled into the belly of the "whale" (black plastic blown up by an electric fan) at the Columbia Gorge Church (Troutdale, Or... Read more
Hood View Church Responds To Needs of Sister Church When four families, including pastoral family Alexei and Elena Novoselov, were displaced by a fire that swept through an apartment building owned by Hood View Church’s sister church in Irkutsk, Siberia, earlier this summer, the Boring, Ore., congr... Read more
