Upper Columbia Academy's "New Ride" The long-awaited day arrived Nov. 9, 2006, as Upper Columbia Academy's (UCA) new bus rolled onto campus, surrounded by excited students, faculty and board members.Many generous donations from around the country made this day a reality. The 1994 Pr... Read more
Men of Faith Return to Milo Darold Bigger and Robert Folkenberg Make Alumni Weekend a Spiritual Feast Several hundred alumni returned to Milo Adventist Academy at its newly-scheduled homecoming time in October.Darold Bigger, Class of '62 and currently a Walla Walla College Theology department professor, spoke Friday night. He shared lessons he lea... Read more
Rivergate School Honors Veterans Rivergate Elementary School in Gladstone, Ore., hosted a Veterans Day Program for the community and school on Nov. 10, 2006.The program started with the Rivergate Band playing "American Spirit March." Ann Campbell, Rivergate School principal, welc... Read more
Tracy Wood Ordained Tracy Wood, Oregon Conference youth ministries associate director, was ordained on Oct. 14, 2006, at Big Lake Youth Camp. He and his wife Angelina were surrounded by friends, family and the Oregon Pathfinder leadership team.Monte Torkelsen, Oregon... Read more
Cars for Kids It was a cool but sunny autumn afternoon when Dan Patchin, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) development director, and Brian Gosney, vice principal of finance, made their way to Darrell Myers Auto Sales in Boring, Ore.Earlier that year, a donor cam... Read more
Portland Russian Seventh-day Adventists Organize as a Company The Portland Russian group became an official company on Oct. 7, 2006—the second step toward being organized as a church body.In the early 1990s, a Russian group of about nine people began to meet in the Tabernacle Church. In March of 1994 Pastor ... Read more
Columbia Adventist Academy Presents Annie Warbucks Play Raises Nearly $5,000 for Spring Music Tour At the end of the movie Annie, little orphan Annie was adopted by Daddy Warbucks and the curtain drops while they celebrate Christmas morning in 1933. They are going to live happily ever after.That is, until the curtain rises at the beginning of A... Read more
