Valley View Celebrates Baptisms JaLynn Cheri Berglund, Noelle Elena Mailand and Taylor Rae Higdon publicly declared their decision to follow their Lord’s example by being baptized into the Valley View Church (Medford, Ore.) membership on March 6.This meaningful occasion was part... Read more
Salem Volunteers Present Public Diabetes Program Volunteers from four Adventist churches in the Salem, Ore., area recently conducted a Wellspring diabetes program for the public at the Adventist Community Services Center coordinated by Merlin Schreiner, an Adventist layman.Schreiner and his wife... Read more
Suspicious Fire Damages Gresham Church Charles Downing, Gresham (Ore.) Church head deacon, received a jolting phone call at 1:46 a.m. on July 22. Someone had just broken into the church, and the motion-detector sensors were activated.Downing quickly roused and headed to the church. How... Read more
Gladstone Camp Meeting Impacts People of All Ages Gladstone Camp Meeting provides an exciting time for friends and families to come together for fellowship and spiritual rejuvenation every July. This year was no exception.Featured evening speaker Morris Venden provided insights into God’s incredi... Read more
Hillsboro Primaries Bring Creation into 3-D Hillsboro Church primary children thought it would be fun to create a three-dimensional representation of creation, the topic of the lessons for first quarter 2004. Over the course of 13 Sabbaths they decorated a box, with each side depicting a da... Read more
Woodland Juniors Honor Mothers The junior class of the Woodland (Wash.) Spanish Company presented the worship service for Mother’s Day. After the message “El Amor de las Madres” ("A Mother's Love”), each child presented his or her mother with a celosia plant ready to be planted... Read more
CAA Students Retreat to Beach to Plan Week of Prayer Twelve Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) students set out for coastal Manzanita, Ore., on Feb. 20 for a spiritual retreat to plan and prepare for the spring student week of prayer.During the weekend students chose the week of prayer theme and daily... Read more
CAA Comes Alive with Sound of Music The hills were definitely filled with the sound of music when a cast and crew of more than 30 Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) students performed and produced The Sound of Music in May. The three sold-out performances were held at Vancouver’s Colu... Read more
