UCA Foundation Founder Retires Tom Stanyer, Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) class of 1950 and a founder of Upper Columbia Academy Foundation, recently stepped down after serving the foundation for more than a decade — first as a key visionary, then as its first vice president, its... Read more
Spokane Youth Help Feed Homeless Children If you had visited Spokane Valley (Wash.) Church on Wednesday evenings or the Spokane (Wash.) Valley Adventist School on Thursday mornings, you would have heard the snappy rustling of paper bags being stuffed with food. The school kids were fillin... Read more
Teen Has Zeal for Missions Caleb Rittenour hails from a quiet corner of north Idaho. He is 16 years old, the middle sibling of five, all home-schooled by their mother. Caleb is a junior deacon at the Spirit Lake Church in Idaho, where he spoke recently about his second miss... Read more
Connections Church of Yakima Hosts Vacation Bible School Connections Church of Yakima, Wash., hosted a Vacation Bible School July 7–11 with the help of His Travelers, a group of traveling VBS leaders from the Upper Columbia Conference. The theme, “Wilderness Escape,” focused on God’s loving provision fo... Read more
Salty Christians Teaching His followers how to live in their communities, Jesus told them, “Be salty and to be like a light shining on a hill.” A thousand years before this, King Solomon said, “Doing right elevates a nation and when righteous people bless a city, ... Read more
West Plains Breaks Ground West Plains Community Seventh-day Adventist Church held a groundbreaking ceremony July 20 on their property at 815 Craig Road in Airway Heights, Wash. Attendees wrote their names on rocks that will be placed in the church foundation. Read more
Track and Field Comes to Cascade Christian Academy “You know that many runners enter a race and only one of them wins the prize. So run to win! Athletes work hard to win a crown that cannot last, but we do it for a crown that will last forever. I don’t run without a goal. And I don’t box by beatin... Read more
Is Camp Meeting Worth It? Amid the pre-camp meeting duties, I was sitting in the new Upper Columbia Academy cafeteria enjoying the great food when a discussion started between two pastors at my table about whether or not camp meeting was “worth it.” The dialogue went somet... Read more
The Lesson of Latvia The offer came out of the blue. “Would your Missions 101 class be interested in a mission trip to Riga, Latvia, over spring break?” asked Lisa Giebel. Gayle Norton, veteran Bible teacher at Walla Walla Valley Academy (WWVA) in College Place, Washi... Read more
