Orchards Church Takes its Trailer on the Road Again The Orchards Church touched more lives this summer through its pioneer program, Sidewalk Kids Hour. With the help of 10 high school and college students, the program, started in 2007 by Wendy Stalcup, was expanded this year to two neighborhoods ea... Read more
Local Band Gives Benefit Concert On Aug. 5, 2008, a helicopter transporting firefighters from the remote Buckhorn Fire in Trinity County, Calif., back to base camp crashed shortly after takeoff. Of the 13 passengers, nine were killed and four were seriously injured. Seven of the ... Read more
Kelso-Longview Hosts 6,000 While the "weather outside was frightful..." at times with rain and biting cold, nearly 6,000 people made the journey from around Southwestern Washington for the 12th annual Journey to Bethlehem at the Kelso-Longview, (Wash.) Adventist Church.With... Read more
Jeans Fund Mozambique Mission It was when the Redmond Church started raising funds early last year to help build a church in Chinonaquila, Mozambique, that Greg Haskin, church elder, decided to go and work on the church himself. The Redmond Church collected almost $15,000 to h... Read more
Cottage Grove Church Hosts New Series The Cottage Grove (Ore.) Church hosted Triple Dose, a series of meetings. Ty Gibson, Light Bearers Ministry director, presented his first presentation of a new series: Triple Dose, Discovering the Love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.The three-... Read more
CAA Hand Bells Play For the Portland Marathon For the fourth year, Columbia Adventist Academy's bell choir participated in the Portland Marathon. From 5:30 a.m. until 10:00 a.m., ringers played and cheered as runners and walkers passed. Many clapped and cheered right back for the bell players... Read more
Mt. Ellis Academy Holds Week of Prayer Week of Prayer at Mt. Ellis Academy began the last week of October 2008, with the praise band leading song service. Barry Curtis, pastor, was the speaker. Curtis focused on the humanity of Jesus, speaking about the experiences he had, while relati... Read more
Eureka Celebrates The Eureka Church celebrated the completion of their church with an August open house for the community, church members and volunteers. John Loor, Montana Conference president, attended. They also invited Maranatha and other volunteers who helped ... Read more
Volunteers Rally for Computer Technology When Brian Setterlund, Gem State Adventist Academy's new network administrator, arrived on campus he found a Windows 2000 operating system and many vintage 1998 computers.To help Setterlund and the school, several friends of the school met a few w... Read more