Umapine Celebrates 25 Years Fifty charter members planted a new Adventist Church in Umapine, Ore., in 1977, and on July 12 and 13, the now-90-member congregation celebrated its 25th anniversary.The congregation serves the Umapine area in the Walla Walla Valley with weekly Sa... Read more
Patriotism Keys Troy Community Dinner Women in the small Adventist church of Troy, Idaho, recently hosted 88 at their congregation’s Annual Community Dinner.Coordinators and hostesses chose a post-Sept. 11 patriotic theme and used prize-winning patriotic quilts (created by members Dar... Read more
California Youths Discover UCC "Mission Field" Fifteen youths and young adults from the Roseville Adventist Church in California discovered a worthy mission field this summer in the Upper Columbia Conference. Read more
Moses Lake Enjoys New School Building Only six months after breaking ground for a new school in March 2001, Moses Lake, Wash., members were able to begin using their partially completed 40,000-square-foot building.To make it all possible, they donated approximately 2,000 man-hours, wo... Read more
Liberty by the Lake “Butch” Otter (center), US Congressman for Idaho District #1, greets Diana Justice, North Pacific Union Conference Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (NPUC PARL) associate director, and her husband, Harry, at a July rally in Hayden Lake, Idaho. ... Read more
Cascade Academy Group Tours Historical D.C. Twenty-three students from Cascade Christian Academy in Wenatchee, Wash., recently confronted humidity, blisters, and lots of walking as they studied the nation’s history in Washington, D.C.Led by Gene and Tonia Roemer, Jim and Tammy Martin, and M... Read more
Eastgate Ponders Lifestyle, Spiritual Gifts, Creation The Walla Walla, Wash., Eastgate Church recently hosted three sets of seminars—on lifestyle change, spiritual gifts, and creationism.Dan Ngaruiya conducted the lifestyle seminar each Friday evening for a month.Ngaruiya, who has a master’s degree i... Read more
MiVoden Singles Weekend Energizes Campers Singles from around the Northwest and as far away as North Carolina and Minnesota gathered at Camp MiVoden over Memorial Day Weekend.They will not soon forget the “Pondering from the Energizer Bunny,” presented by speakers Al and Beth Reimche, fro... Read more
Omak Church Celebrates 80th Anniversary Members and visitors—a crowd of about 150—gathered June 22 in Omak, Wash., to celebrate the church’s 80th anniversary.Bannered by the theme “Welcome Home,” participants traced the Omak congregation’s history back to 1912, when the first Adventist ... Read more
