Real Issues REAL GOD Rally the Troops! Wait, don’t you mean rally the youth? If you had happened upon the Auburn Adventist Academy gymnasium on Jan. 10 and 11, you would have been faced with hundreds of teens hanging out and praising God at the Washington Conference Y... Read more
Seeds for the Harvest The little church in Forks, Washington, was blessed last fall by hosting a Laurelwood Academy pilot program called “Seeds for the Harvest.” Altogether 27 juniors and seniors and seven staff spent 12 days doing many outreach and community service p... Read more
Monroe Church Sends Missionaries to the World Monroe, Wash., members gathered for an emotional farewell vespers for two families leaving for mission work in foreign countries.The Bartel family, John and Sue with children, Steven and Sarah, accepted the challenge of self-supporting mission wor... Read more
Bethlehem Carpenter’s Son Pastors Pastors The Washington Conference Executive Committee has elected Bruce Koch to serve as ministerial and stewardship director, a position vacated when Doug Bing became vice president for administration.Born in Bethlehem, the son of a carpenter, it seems t... Read more
AnchorPointe Gives a Gift to the Community Anyone who lives in the Puget Sound area will know that “vacant retail space” has been a prominent feature of the economic recession. After searching in vain for a mall or department store that would allow church members to provide free gift-wrapp... Read more
The Cheney Church Is on the Move The members of the Cheney Church accepted an offer to sell their church building in November. They transformed the former multipurpose room at the Four Winds Christian Elementary School in Four Lakes into a beautiful sanctuary and moved in.In spit... Read more
What Do You Do with 23 Trumpet Players? UCA Initiates Gifted Musician Scholarship i>. . . and dear Lord, you know that more than half my band is graduating in May. I’m loosing all my trumpets and tubas. I need saxaphone and clarinet players and I don’t know where I’m going to get them. Please provide for my needs in these areas... Read more
Spokane’s East Central Community Company Pays Their Debt Sabbath evening, Dec. 14, 2002, was no ordinary evening for the members of the East Central Community Company because they paid their debt.Wayne Searson, Upper Columbia Conference corporation director, commended the congregation for putting fourth... Read more
Cookie’s Retreat Center Opens Polly’s Place Ministries, Inc., has opened Cookie’s Retreat Center, a healing retreat for women and children who are victims of Domestic Violence. Founded by Adventists, this center is the only one of its kind on the West Coast. Located in the hea... Read more
