How Indigenous Alaskans Await the Resurrection The diversity of traditions among indigenous people groups regarding care of the deceased and interment are an interesting study. In Alaska, great care is taken with funeral preparations, casket making, grave digging and after-care of the gravesite. Read more
Valley View Members Find Safe Way to Worship Together The new interim pastor preached his first sermon at the Valley View Adventist Church in East Wenatchee, Washington. Then everyone stopped coming to church. That’s how Tye Davis laughed about his experience just before Washington issued stay-at-hom... Read more
Drive-in Church Gets a Welcome Visit The dark, unfamiliar SUV pulled into the line of cars getting positioned for the start of Anchorage Northside’s drive-in church at the Anchorage Junior Academy parking area. This vehicle had never seen before. Being able to quickly recognize a var... Read more
NPUC Mails Conference Stimulus Checks The North Pacific Union Conference announced Monday, July 20, 2020, a $625,000 financial stimulus package to aid its six conferences in the Northwest. Read more
UCC 'Search and Rescue' Reaches Thousands This year’s camp meeting was unusual but powerful. “Search and Rescue,” held virtually at the Spokane Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church in eastern Washington, was attended by thousands every night. The YouTube views of the Sabbath program surpas... Read more
Tualatin Valley Academy Holds Creative Balloon Days Kimberly Clifton, fifth grade teacher at Tualatin Valley Academy in Hillsboro, Oregon, created Zoom activities for her class to “end the year with a bang.” Usually, the end of the school year is marked by special parties, picnics and swimming outi... Read more
Mount Ellis Academy Holds Successful Work Bee Volunteer efforts at a recent Mount Ellis Academy work bee produced significant results. Though the days were filled with cool weather and rain, Brent Tungesvik, MEA plant facilities director, kept the workers busy with several indoor projects on ... Read more
Milo Principal Takes Fundraising to New Heights Milo Adventist Academy principal Randy Thornton went over the top in his fundraising efforts for the senior class of 2020. He slept on the roof of the Milo Adventist Church in southern Oregon on the night of May 20, 2020, to fulfill a promise made... Read more
Bryant Named NAD President On July 9, 2020, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s General Conference executive committee met virtually to receive the name of G. Alexander Bryant, the recommendation for division president, from both the North American Division’s nominating comm... Read more
