CAA Student Determined To Give At Columbia Adventist Academy’s fall blood drive in November 2002, junior Tom Wilson was ineligible to give because he did not meet the age eligibility requirement; he was not 17 years old. When David Allen, blood drive chairperson, was signing up... Read more
Farming Again at Milo When Eugene Mitchell, a local career farmer, approached the Milo Adventist Academy maintenance/grounds managers and asked whose job it was to keep up the farm, they responded, “The job’s yours!” At the time he wasn’t sure he even wanted the job, b... Read more
New Church in Monterrey, Mexico This new church was a joint effort, built over a period of four weeks. The Calimesa, Calif., group prepared the slab last fall; the Show Low, Ariz., group started the walls; the Stone Tower (Portland, Ore.) Church group along with groups from the ... Read more
Three New Members Join CAA Faculty Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) welcomes three new faculty members this year.Born and raised in Indiana, Anita Peterson attended church school from elementary through college at Southern Adventist University, where she obtained her bachelor's deg... Read more
PAA's Rock Climbers Tackle Central Oregon Eighteen students and four sponsors spent a week this summer defying gravity while suspended on the face of the well-known Smith Rocks in central Oregon. Organized by Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) chaplain Les Zollbrecht, the trip included dail... Read more
SCUBA Splashes Down at Columbia Gorge "It’s spooky in here”...”It’s so dark!”... “What’s that gurgly noise?” These were just some of the comments as youngsters crawled into the belly of the "whale" (black plastic blown up by an electric fan) at the Columbia Gorge Church (Troutdale, Or... Read more
Hood View Church Responds To Needs of Sister Church When four families, including pastoral family Alexei and Elena Novoselov, were displaced by a fire that swept through an apartment building owned by Hood View Church’s sister church in Irkutsk, Siberia, earlier this summer, the Boring, Ore., congr... Read more
50-year Homecoming Weekend Reunion for Pathfinders More than 100 former Hood River Pathfinders and their families came from as far away as Missouri and Canada in April for a 50-year homecoming weekend planned by long-time Pathfinder staffer Fay Ziegele and Ralph Staley, current Pathfinder leader.T... Read more
PAA Welcomes New Principal When Gale Crosby accepted an invitation in July to become the principal of Portland Adventist Academy (PAA), it was with a strong certainty that the academy was where God wanted him to be.With 23 years of experience working with Adventist schools,... Read more
