Springfield Members Provide Thanksgiving Hospitality The week before Thanksgiving, members of the Springfield Church participated in a “guess whose coming to dinner” event. Some offered to be host homes, and others signed up to be guests. The guests did not know whose house they were going to for a ... Read more
PACS Volunteers Serve up Love Thanksgiving Style “That was the best Thanksgiving I’ve ever had.” “If we hadn’t come here, our family would not have had a Thanksgiving.” Those were just two of the comments heard last November as Portland Adventist Community Services (PACS) hosted community folks ... Read more
Better Life Television Gets a Better Station After more than two years of planning and fundraising, Better Life Television, based in Grants Pass, Ore., is finally getting to spread its wings—thanks to a new studio expansion and some help from volunteers.From Oct. 8–29, 2002, more than 70 vol... Read more
Mt. Ellis Academy Fosters Active Student Events Males Order BridesThe Mt. Ellis class of 2003 staged the play “Males Order Brides” as a fundraiser. English teacher, Anita Strawn de Ojeda, producer, helped the students learn their parts.Student LeadershipThe Associated Student Body officers at M... Read more
Two Ceremonies Royanna Smith and Neil Diamond were married and baptized Sabbath, Oct. 19, 2002, at the Big Timber Church. This was the first marriage at the church in 24 years. Bill Smith, Big Timber pastor (left), performed both ceremonies. Read more
Montana Conference Holds First-ever Prayer Conference The first conference-sponsored prayer conference in Montana was last fall, in Bozeman. Guest speakers, Kevin Wilfley and Randy Maxwell, inspired the 60 participants, representing 11 churches, with stories of answered prayer in their own lives, in ... Read more
Desmond & Frances Doss Impact the Community The Cambridge Idaho Church hosted Medal of Honor recipient Desmond Doss and his wife Frances in Veteran’s Day services during the weekend of Nov. 8–9. But the weekend was not enough to contain invitations for the Dosses, who also participated in s... Read more
Thirty Years of Giving To the Community As the Gem State Academy bus pulled up in front of the school, academy students streamed from the cafeteria with a welcoming wave of enthusiasm for more than 30 children from the community. As children came off the bus, they were paired with acade... Read more
Alaska Photo Stories Northern OutingGolden Heart Christian School students pose in front of the rustic lodge used as the meeting place during their annual fall campout, under the direction of Barbara Quaile, grades 1–4 teacher, Oct. 11–13, 2002. Located in Fairbanks, ... Read more
