Walla Walla Valley Academy Alternative Learning Center It’s about each student’s potential, whether high achievers or those who struggle academically. Many schools boast about the students who excel academically, winning awards and scholarships, and we, too, have our share of shining pupils at Walla W... Read more
Walla Walla Valley Academy: Mission 101 Witnessing by word or by deed is the reason for the Mission 101 class taught by Gayle Norton, considered a guiding mentor, not a teacher, by his students. Students comment that the class has changed their lives and challenged them to be better Chr... Read more
Streams of LightSharing and Living the Light Upper Columbia Conference Constituency Session Streams of Light—Sharing and Living the Light Read more
Elders and Pastors Explore Church Revitalization Nearly 150 elders and pastors from 52 churches around the Upper Columbia Conference gathered at Camp MiVoden in Idaho Feb. 21-23 to explore the principles of church revitalization at the Elders’ and Pastors’ Retreat.For several years, the Mid-Amer... Read more
Kenya Mission Trip Mark Witas, Wenatchee youth pastor, led a team of 39 youth and adults on a mission trip to the Trans-Mara region of Kenya from March 18 through April 1. The group completed a brick-and-mortar church in six days and delivered school supplies, socce... Read more
So, Change My Perspective Spokane Junior Academy’s Spiritual Retreat 2003 Students in the upper grades at Spokane Junior Academy (SJA) headed to Camp MiVoden, Hayden Lake, Idaho, for a spiritual retreat focused on bringing students closer to God and to each other.The weekend retreat’s topic, “So, Change My Perspective,”... Read more
A Fighting Chance for Academic Success The peer tutoring program at Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) is designed to give students a fighting chance for academic success.“Sometimes students need more one-on-one attention than the teachers can give them,” says Joy Turner, UCA’s tutorial prog... Read more
Goldendale Baptism Shirley Magnuson felt the need to come back to the church she had been away from for so long. For the past year and a half, she has been reaching out to the Adventist church by completing the Voice of Prophecy Discover Bible studies and the Amazin... Read more
Ephrata Treasurer Honored When Andrew McCrary, Ephrata (Wash.) Church pastor, invited Clara Fitzgerald up to the podium, she was in for one of the biggest surprises of her life! The church honored Clara’s 22 years of treasury service with a corsage, a beautiful plaque, a f... Read more
