PAA Student Scholarship Graduates Excel Despite the economic recession, the Portland Adventist Academy Student Scholarship program and its investors kept over 60 financially challenged students enrolled at PAA this year.Ian Bilinowich was one of those students. He graduated with a four ... Read more
Friends Helping Friends Friends Helping Friends Missions is an organization helping young people participate in local mission opportunities. For eight years, they have been taking youth and adults during school breaks to minister to the Native Americans at Warm Springs R... Read more
Montana Members Determine to Bring Harvest Home On the heels of a week featuring the spiritual highlights of camp meeting and a theme of Bring the Harvest Home, Montana Conference delegates convened Sunday, June 21, in Bozeman, to elect conference officers. Delegates re-elected John Loor Jr., p... Read more
Gem State Makes Adventist Education Accessible Gem State Adventist Academy leaders have been reviewing programs and systems to ensure efficiency, relevancy and effectiveness. As a result, they have developed two new programs for the 2009–2010 school year.The Distance Learning Program will enab... Read more
Men Enjoy May Retreat at Ida-Haven Men enjoyed fellowship and sharing during their mid-May retreat at Camp Ida-Haven, in McCall, Idaho. They worked together on a project which taught them firsthand how difficult it is to put something together without instructions, even when others... Read more
Doug and LoWana Blair Doug and LoWana Blair have chosen to respond to the Savior's call to be missionaries to Bethel, Alaska. They presently attend the Northside Church and have worked in Anchorage for many years. Doug is an estimator for a large heating company, and L... Read more
Togiak Welcomes New Bible Worker Wrangler, guide, pilot, octogenarian and front-line missionary to the arctic — Dan Rotthoff has joined the Arctic Mission Adventure team as a Bible worker in the Native village of Togiak, Alaska.Three years ago, someone offered to donate money to ... Read more
Adventist Chaplain Promoted to Highest Office Chaplain Colonel Thomas G. Evans, Hillside-O'Malley member, was recently inducted to the highest chaplaincy office in Alaska. In his new role, he will be supervisory chaplain for all active duty Army chaplains in Alaska as well as dispatching chap... Read more
World News Briefs - August 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
