Athletes. Students. Believers. The term "student athlete" is not an oxymoron at Milo Academy. The boys' varsity basketball team not only has good athletes, but is also loaded with academic talent. Nine of the 11 players are on the honor roll. The cumulative GPA for the team is ... Read more
Montanans Minister in the Dominican Republic San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, was the destination for 17 people from Montana in March for evangelistic meetings with the 2009 North Pacific Union Conference mission team. Members from Bozeman, Hamilton, Libby, Missoula and Mount Ellis ... Read more
Kuna Church Connects With the Community Beginning Jan. 3 and continuing through much of February, the Kuna Church held a series of public evangelistic meetings called Community Conversations LIVE. For seven weeks, on Sabbath mornings and Wednesday nights, Randy Maxwell, pastor, attempte... Read more
Torkelsen Gets a Firsthand Look When Max Torkelsen, North Pacific Union Conference president, arrived in Anchorage, Alaska, on a warm spring weekend recently, his first comments were "this beauty is amazing. I want to see a moose!"After preaching at the Northside Church, Torkels... Read more
World News Briefs - May 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
Forgiving Isn't Easy Professors Conclude Forgiveness Research Jesus told us we are to forgive 70 times seven—in other words, a whole lot! But is it really that simple?Pastoral and counseling experiences with people who have trouble forgiving others indicate knowing what Jesus said about our need to forgive d... Read more
Emergency Enthusiast Comes Home Even as a young boy, Eric Swanson had emergency medicine in his blood.When his mom moved the family to Tillamook, Ore., in 1973, to be the nurse anesthetist at what is now Tillamook County General Hospital, Swanson spent a lot of time observing em... Read more
Young Adults Encounter God in Seattle An Adventist-sponsored event called "Relentless," which is part of a larger movement called GODencounters, was held in late January at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash. Attendance was nearly 200 on Sabbath morning. Jeff Gang, GODencou... Read more
Kent Renovation Whacked Into Action The Kent (Wash.) Church raised money for their church renovation and kicked off the long-awaited project by selling the rights for the first whack at the wall. It was much like a groundbreaking, but instead it was a wall breaking. The wall between... Read more
