Meal of Hope Serve Much More Than Dinner There were only eight at the first dinner. By the second week, 18 arrived. Week after week, a few more trickled in. Word began to spread, and the numbers jumped to 100. A year later, in 2016, more than 200 people were attending Meal of Hope, a din... Read more
Deaf Christian Women's Ministry Prepares for Retreat In 2002, a group of deaf women decided to start a women’s retreat for deaf women in the Pacific Northwest. The deaf women are members of a completely different people group with their own rich language and culture. Read more
The Field Trip That Just Kept Giving It was an ordinary fall day for the students of Central Valley Christian School in Tangent, Ore. The Rich Room students (grades three through five) headed out with promotional postcards inviting the surrounding neighborhoods to the school's upcomi... Read more
Hillsboro Spanish Helps Reconnect Families On a chilly January morning, 280 people gathered at Holden Convention Center in Gladstone, Ore., in anticipation of welcoming family members they hadn’t seen in 10 or more years. Years before those gathered had immigrated to the United States, lea... Read more
The PAA Gospel Choir Mission “The look on their faces when they first join the choir is nervousness,” says Drechelle McCray, an English teacher at Portland (Ore.) Adventist Academy (PAA) and the director of the school’s Gospel Choir club. Read more
Oregon Leaders Ponder How to Love Well In January 2019, the entire pastoral and educational team of the Oregon Conference set aside two days for a celebration of united ministry. Together as One, an annual two-day meeting, brings front-line conference employees together to discover new... Read more
Sunnyside Holds International Day Celebration Anticipation and eagerness was in the air, and people greeted each other with an extra sparkle in their eyes and warmth in their voices. Soon Sunnyside Church’s Jan. 26, 2019, church service in Portland, Ore., began with flags from 35 different co... Read more
New Director Welcomed to Better Life Broadcasting Better Life Broadcasting Network, based in Grants Pass, Ore., has named Charles Oliver as its new director. Oliver began work on Jan. 22, 2019, at the invitation of the ministry’s board of directors. Read more
Sunnyside Holds Night of Wonder, Night of Joy The Dec. 22, 2018, worship service at the Sunnyside Church in Portland, Ore., consisted of the Christmas musical Night of Wonder, Night of Joy by Ruth Elaine Schram. The musical presentation celebrates the wondrous miracles surrounding the birth o... Read more
