Light Rail Comes to PAA Portland Adventist Academy recently welcomed an extension of MAX, the Portland, Ore., area light rail train, to its front entrance.Mass transit is nothing new to PAA students. The school, 100 years old this year, has always had students who depend... Read more
Forest Fire Fighting 101 Fire Camp Comes to Milo Smoke covered the Milo Adventist Academy campus on a daily basis during late September and early October as winds and high temperatures fanned the flames of the Boze and Rainbow fires, 37 miles to the northeast of campus. For the second time this ... Read more
Deaf Reach Program Held at Beaverton A special lay training program called Deaf Reach was held at the Beaverton (Ore.) Church Sept. 11–13. This workshop instructs deaf laity how to share Jesus and Bible truths with others and how to give Bible studies.David Trexler, Adventist Deaf Mi... Read more
Women's Retreat Builds Trust in God Early on Friday, Oct. 9, more than 130 women trekked across snow covered roads and vast distances for the 2009 Montana Conference Women's retreat. Excitement built as friends made the trip together, laughing, talking, singing and praying to Fairmo... Read more
Meridian and Parma Churches Welcome New Pastor The Meridian and Parma (Idaho) congregations welcomed Michael and Karen Pearson as their new pastoral couple in October. Pearson was born in Kenya, Africa. As a fourth-generation Adventist, he was raised by missionary parents in several African co... Read more
Gem State Senior Survival A Student's Story I looked forward to this year's senior survival with my class, but I had no idea what adventures we would undertake.Together with sponsors and adult staff, we traveled to a wilderness area near McCall, Idaho. We started out doing team-building exp... Read more
Women's Retreat Brings Central Alaskans Together The Alaska Conference is very spread out, which makes connecting and sharing with each other a challenge at times. But from July 31–Aug. 2, women from the communities of Glenallen, Tok and Copper Valley came together at Red Eagle Lodge, in Chistoc... Read more
Samoan Youth on a Mission to Juneau Juneau Adventist Christian School hosted 27 youth from the Anchorage Samoan Church on July 29. Under the leadership of Masae Fanene, youth director, young people painted the school and completed work around the school, including a newly painted si... Read more
World News Briefs - December 2009 Because this section doesn't amount to much without its page design, it is not available here. You can see the World News Briefs page for this month by looking in the print edition of GLEANER or by clicking on the PDF version. To get to the PDF ve... Read more
