PAA Welcomes New Staff Member Portland Adventist Academy is pleased to welcome a new staff member.Jessica Glover joins the PAA staff part time to fill needs in the library, as a tutor and librarian, and in the administrative office with payroll. Glover is a credentialed teache... Read more
A Century Celebrated Silverton Community Adventist Church It's been one hundred years! The week-end of celebrations were as stimulating as was the occasion auspicious. "I am still living in the glow of Aug. 19 and 20," wrote Les Jones, Silverton (Ore.) Church pastor, in retrospect, in an email to his con... Read more
Motorcycle Camp Meeting It was a beautiful weekend at Gladstone Campground as motorcyclists arrived on their highway cruisers, sport bikes, custom choppers and touring motorcycles. Go into All the World ... Motorcycle Camp Meeting 2011 was held Aug. 26–28. This was a wee... Read more
More Blessed to Give than to Receive Seniors Donate Trip Funds This year, as hard economic times got tougher, a Milo Adventist Academy senior student had to go home because of past unpaid tuition with no hope of further payments. Another senior proposed that instead of a trip, the funds that had been raised s... Read more
In-Service Held by Webinar The Oregon Conference education department conducted their teacher in-service meeting on Aug. 11. This year the meeting was conducted via live video streaming.Nineteen speakers presented from a meeting room at the Oregon Conference office. A coupl... Read more
Pathfinder Leaders Convention Focus on Teens It was a gorgeous summertime weekend at the Gladstone Park Conference Center as Pathfinder leaders from around the Oregon Conference and beyond came for the annual Leadership Training. The theme for this Pathfinder year is “Send Me,” based on Isai... Read more
PAA Block Party Grows in Size and Purpose Portland Adventist Academy connected with neighbors at its fifth-annual Block Party, where the school and guests donated more than 300 pounds of food to Portland Adventist Community Services.The free event brought more than 400 neighbors to the PA... Read more
General Conference Shoots TV Commercials on Gladstone Campus The General Conference is in the process of printing an updated version of The Great Controversy entitled The Great Hope. This version is only a portion of the original book, intended for the non-Adventist.Two TV commercial spots were shot on the ... Read more
Baptism At Gladstone Park Angela Whitbeck was baptized by Bob Uhrig, pastor, at the Gladstone (Ore.) Park Church during the Sabbath worship hour on July 23.Whitbeck says, "I started attending Gladstone Park in 2008 with Mike and Ingrid Whitbeck, my father- and mother-in-la... Read more
