Anchorage Pathfinders Give Holiday Food Baskets Rather than going trick-or-treating, Anchorage area Pathfinders brought holiday cheer to a number of Anchorage families through the gift of food collected by the Pathfinders in class A dress uniform at Halloween time. More than 800 food items were... Read more
Christmas Carols Across Alaska What would Christmas be without the traditional school Christmas program? Across Alaska, nervous students practiced lines and songs and prepared backdrops for their annual Christmas programs. Whether the program consisted of simple songs or comple... Read more
Wibberding Ordained to Gospel Ministry Lonnie Wibberding was ordained as a pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Oct. 16. Wibbberding currently pastors two churches in southeastern Alaska. The service was attended by Ken Crawford, conference president; Jim Kincaid, conference s... Read more
Olson Ordained to Chaplaincy Ministry Keith Olson was ordained to the chaplaincy ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church at a special service Oct. 23 at the Midtown Church in Anchorage. Both local church members and conference officials attended.Olson currently serves as the spir... Read more
Anchorage New Births: 35 New Members and One New Church Beginning with a power-packed weekend directed towards those who wished to re-energize their lives, All Power Seminar speaker Leo Schreven addressed more than 500 people in a renovated Anchorage mall store.Immediately following the All Power weeke... Read more
Cheri Peters Speaks to Women and Youth The fifth annual Aleknagik Women’s Retreat was held Sept. 24–27 on Aleknagik Island, which is accessible only by a boat ride from the mouth of Lake Aleknagik. “God feels very close out there away from the noise and people of the town,” reported Be... Read more
Tentmaker Wanted Native Americans Embrace Adventism It was a cold and windy day with almost freezing temperatures when Rick Binford, pastor of the Savoonga, Gambel, and Selawik churches, conducted a baptism outside the little Adventist church in Savoonga, a village of 800 people situated along the ... Read more
Palmer School, Korean Church Under Construction Someone has said that there are two seasons in Alaska—construction and winter. Since the fireweed has finished blooming, buildings under construction are being closed in for winter. Two major conference building projects within Alaska are progress... Read more
Traxler Ordained Brad Traxler, Kenai-Homer district pastor, was ordained on July 31 in the Kenai (Alaska) Church. The service was well attended by members of both Kenai and Homer churches. Jim Kincaid, Alaska Conference executive secretary, and Neil Biloff, Alaska... Read more
