Waldport Woman Serves Community For 35 Years Audra Wheeler received an award given in appreciation for 35 years of dedicated service as the Waldport Adventist Community Services director. The award was presented to her by Andy Whittenberg, pastor, at a luncheon given in her honor. Even thoug... Read more
Teams Respond to Winter Storms Adventist Community Services Disaster Response leaders in the Oregon Conference are responding to requests for help following widespread flooding and significant snow damage in Clatskanie, Columbia and Clackamas counties in Oregon, and Wahkiakum, ... Read more
Rivergate Honors Veterans With Music and More While most children have no school on Veteran’s Day, students of Rivergate Adventist Elementary in Gladstone, Ore., spent the day a little differently. In keeping with a school tradition reaching back more than a decade, the students presented a m... Read more
Poster Child For the second year in a row, a student from Mid-Columbia Adventist Christian School in Hood River, Ore., was a winner in the 2008 Lions Peace Poster contest.Madison Baird, an eighth-grade student, was encouraged by Bobbie DeWebber, teacher, to pu... Read more
Pathfinder TLTs Gather for Annual Convention It’s not often you find an equal number of teens and adults in the same place, working together, for the same goal. However, this was the case Jan. 23–25, at Camp Harlow just outside of Eugene, Ore. Nearly 70 teens and adults met at the camp for t... Read more
PAA Students Certified for Disaster Response The Oregon Conference community outreach department inspired Portland Adventist Academy students to join in Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACS-DR) for Oregon, the Pacific Northwest and beyond.Twenty PAA students signed up for spec... Read more
Oregon Congregation Raises $15,000 to Build "One-Day" Churches This is the answer we have been waiting for!" exclaim church leaders around the globe. According to Maranatha's data, more than 100,000 Seventh-day Adventist congregations do not have permanent church buildings. Maranatha and Adventist-Laymen's Se... Read more
Milo Reads the B-I-B-L-E It’s a fantastic sight to walk through the administration building at Milo Academy and see students reading Bibles. If you walk into the Campus Ministries office, you might find a group of seven or eight reading aloud to each other. Sitting in the... Read more
Campmeeting Earliteens Win Award Earliteens attending camp meeting last summer in Gladstone, Ore., received an award in December 2008, from the City of Gladstone. Wade Byers, Gladstone mayor, and Frank Grace, Gladstone chief of police, presented a certificate to Rhonda Whitney, O... Read more
