Cars for Kids It was a cool but sunny autumn afternoon when Dan Patchin, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) development director, and Brian Gosney, vice principal of finance, made their way to Darrell Myers Auto Sales in Boring, Ore.Earlier that year, a donor cam... Read more
Portland Russian Seventh-day Adventists Organize as a Company The Portland Russian group became an official company on Oct. 7, 2006—the second step toward being organized as a church body.In the early 1990s, a Russian group of about nine people began to meet in the Tabernacle Church. In March of 1994 Pastor ... Read more
Columbia Adventist Academy Presents Annie Warbucks Play Raises Nearly $5,000 for Spring Music Tour At the end of the movie Annie, little orphan Annie was adopted by Daddy Warbucks and the curtain drops while they celebrate Christmas morning in 1933. They are going to live happily ever after.That is, until the curtain rises at the beginning of A... Read more
Powerful Dreams Bring Victories In Canyonville Church Welcomes Six New Members A strange dream startled Lenette Buchanan awake on Saturday morning, April 2, 2005. A powerful message gripped her mind with undeniable urgency: Get up! You must go to the Canyonville Seventh-day Adventist Church today! Take your entire family!Buc... Read more
Got Hope? She was sad, lonely and cold. But for Sherry Sullivan of Liberty, Ky., hope knocked on her front door with ambitious hands and open hearts. Armed with tools and energy, 34 Meadow Glade Church members joined with three other Adventist school groups... Read more
Emerald Christian Academy Students Reach Out to Community and Classmates More than 35 Emerald Christian Academy (ECA) students, staff and family participated in the annual three-mile “Walk to D’Feet ALS,” on Sept.17, 2006. They raised more than $500 for the walk in a show of support for student Chad Hansen, whose mom P... Read more
Pastor Prayer Breakfast At Portland Adventist Academy It’s the goal of every Adventist school to work closely with their constituent churches. But if you ask most pastors and school staff they’ll tell you the job is harder than it sounds.Les Zollbrecht, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) chaplain, saw ... Read more
Renk to Retire Marilyn K. Renk, pictured left, Oregon Conference Health and Community Services director, will retire on Dec. 31. Her future plans include establishing a business of consulting and event planning. The North American Division will keep Renk involve... Read more
