Women’s Ministry Involves Many Fifty-four women and teens met at the Upper Columbia Conference office on Feb. 9, to share their vision and make plans for women’s ministry events for the year. The fifteen teenagers present and their sponsors spent the afternoon making plans for ... Read more
Upper Columbia Conference Couples Retreat Couples found a great way to spend the Valentine weekend by attending the Upper Columbia Conference Couples’ Retreat at Camp MiVoden in Hayden Lake, Idaho. The scenery was breathtaking and the atmosphere of the lakeside retreat was healing and pea... Read more
Four Students Selected As Delegates to National Conference Yakima Adventist Christian School (YACS) is proud to announce that Macy Brock, Jonathan Gaskill, Elizabeth Kim, and Ross Vhymeister have been chosen as delegates to the Junior National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. this spring.Macy,... Read more
Cookie’s Retreat Center Opens Polly’s Place Ministries, Inc., has opened Cookie’s Retreat Center, a healing retreat for women and children who are victims of Domestic Violence. Founded by Adventists, this center is the only one of its kind on the West Coast. Located in the hea... Read more
Spokane’s East Central Community Company Pays Their Debt Sabbath evening, Dec. 14, 2002, was no ordinary evening for the members of the East Central Community Company because they paid their debt.Wayne Searson, Upper Columbia Conference corporation director, commended the congregation for putting fourth... Read more
What Do You Do with 23 Trumpet Players? UCA Initiates Gifted Musician Scholarship i>. . . and dear Lord, you know that more than half my band is graduating in May. I’m loosing all my trumpets and tubas. I need saxaphone and clarinet players and I don’t know where I’m going to get them. Please provide for my needs in these areas... Read more
The Cheney Church Is on the Move The members of the Cheney Church accepted an offer to sell their church building in November. They transformed the former multipurpose room at the Four Winds Christian Elementary School in Four Lakes into a beautiful sanctuary and moved in.In spit... Read more
Cole Ordained In Pendleton Church Dan Cole was ordained on Nov. 30, 2002, at the Pendleton, Ore., Church where he is an associate pastor. During the ceremony Dan’s father, Paul Cole, pastor of the Albany, Ore., Church, gave the “Challenge to Ministry” sermon. He encouraged Dan in ... Read more
Exceptional Experience For Academy Biology Students Upper Columbia Academy’s advanced biology students recently had an unusual opportunity to simulate forensic studies with the latest of scientific equipment, thanks to the Howard Hughes Foundation and Washington State University.“They loaned us all... Read more