RVAS Cultural Exchange Benefits Two Schools Rogue Valley Adventist School (RVAS) hosted 32 Japanese exchange students and two teachers from Hijiyama High School, a girls' high school in Japan, for two months this spring.RVAS hoped for cultural enrichment and an opportunity to share God's lo... Read more
CAA Seniors Turn Dream into Reality While Columbia Adventist Academy class of 2004 was deciding what to give as their school gift, someone jokingly suggested, “What about a new tour bus?” Replacing the existing 1960s-vintage bus seemed like an unreachable dream.The journey moved fro... Read more
CAA Selected as National Finalist for 2004 Academy Award for Excellence Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) was selected as the first runner-up for the 2004 Academy Award for Excellence and received a $20,000 grant during the Alumni Awards Foundation's annual convention held in February 2004.Three Adventist high schools ... Read more
God Works Church Miracle in His Time The Bend (Ore.) Church celebrated Easter weekend with a mortgage burning ceremony for the payoff of their new church property. Don Livesay, president, and Al Reimke, vice president, came from Oregon Conference to give their support to the celebrat... Read more
Negative Publicity Brings Positive Results for Astoria Seminar When Steve and Alberta Cook, Oregon Conference evangelists, came to Astoria, Ore., to hold a prophecy seminar at a local middle school, they didn’t know they would get front-page coverage in The Daily Astorian regarding the use of public schools f... Read more
Young Boy's Desire Reminds Pastor of Samuel At just three years of age, Justin Wier began coming to Sabbath School with his grandmother, Donna McQuown, after she became acquainted with the church through the Springfield (Ore.) Church's Adventist Community Services. He loved the Bible storie... Read more
PAA Athlete Gives Thanks Even in Defeat Trent Wade, a Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) junior and basketball point guard, was one of the players affected by the Oregon State Board of Education’s recent ruling that it is not necessary for the Oregon Sports Athletic Association (OSAA) to ... Read more
CAA Mission Helps Children in Mexican Orphanage A group of 47 Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) students, staff and sponsors spent spring break at El Oasis, a village for orphaned and abandoned children in Baja, Mexico, run by International Children’s Care (ICC).At El Oasis, they built a fence, ... Read more
