Meridian Members Change Nominating Process Meridian Adventist Church members in Idaho stepped out in faith this year and broke away from the usual method of nominating church officers.Instead of fitting members into position slots (position oriented), members let the Holy Spirit lead membe... Read more
Gem State Hosts Idahos First Lady Gem State Adventist Academy (GSAA) bridged the generation gap on Friday, Nov. 8, during a special day set aside for grandparents (some adopted for the day) and their student-grandchildren.More than 80 actual grandparents and adoptive seniors spent... Read more
Oasis Church Sponsors 16 Summer Campers Members of the Oasis Church, in Boise, Idaho, this year sponsored 16 children and youths to Camp Ida-Haven, on Payette Lake in McCall, Idaho.It is the second year in a row the congregation has helped the summer campers raise all their expenses; th... Read more
Midtown Fellowship Reaches Out to Needy Midtown Christian Fellowship, an Adventist congregation that meets at a public school in Anchorage, recently conducted a Halloween-night food drive, collecting nearly 300 cans in one hour.They then used the canned goods and other food items to pre... Read more
Aleknagik Baptism Jasmine Kritz, 9, gave her heart to the Lord at summer camp, last year, and then faithfully studied each Sabbath afternoon for a year, preparing for baptism.On summer camp Sabbath, this year, she publicly declared her decision to follow Jesus, thr... Read more
Pathfinder Food Drive Vern Osborn, Anchorage Pathfinder director (back row, far right), rallied his troops for a traditional Halloween canned food drive, collecting 1,567 food items for Thanksgiving food baskets distributed in the area. Read more
Alaska Youth Challenge Reaches 26,000 Homes Directed by college students Jonathan Kincaid, Stefan Kim, Hailu Gabriel, and Alisha Palmer, 16 Alaska Youth Challenge members this summer sold more than $33,000 worth of Adventist Christian literature to homes in the Anchorage area.Kincaid and Ki... Read more
Executive Committee Elects New Treasurer, Editor In actions taken by the North Pacific Union Conference Executive Committee in September, Norman Klam was elected as treasurer and Dick Dower was approved as GLEANER editor.Klam will fill the vacancy left by the departure of Benny Moore, who recent... Read more
Whatever Happened to Operation Bearhug/Magadan? Hundreds of Northwest members traveled to the former Soviet Union during the 1990s, sharing their faith, their talents, and their dollars.Sometimes, through the inevitable absence of valid reports and rumors of attrition and apostasy, questions ar... Read more
