Mayor Offers Community Involvement Vision Mike Deal, Puyallup mayor, shared his vision for church involvement in community projects at the opening session of a Revelation Now series with Jac Colón at the Puyallup (Wash.) Seventh-day Adventist Church.“A lot of people look to the government... Read more
Four Hearts for God Gary Evans, Republic Church pastor, introduces four baptismal candidates, from left: Stephen Heckly, Luke Heckly, Jeiel Rafferty, and Daniel Fleck. These young men requested baptism at the conclusion of “The Appearing” series by It Is Written spea... Read more
The Search People Reaching People The young adults at Eastgate Church in Walla Walla, Wash., have founded an exciting and innovative new service entitled “The Search.” When this ministry was born, The Search stuck immediately as a title, since everyone is searching for something …... Read more
A Boy and His Coach Are Baptized In the spring of 2005 during family worship, Jeff Crain, Omak (Wash.) Church pastor, asked whom the family members would like to pray for. His son, Joey, asked for prayer for his coach, Jack Beers, “that he would love Jesus and come to church.”Cra... Read more
Lake City Junior Academy Gets a New Gym Roof Lake City Junior Academy, the school for the churches in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, area, has finally had a much-needed makeover, namely a new gym roof for its kindergarten through 10th grades. The original flat gym roof, built approximately 50 yea... Read more
A Nunn is Baptized John Nunn, 52, was born, the oldest of 14 children, to a poor coal miner and his wife in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. He started his work career at the age of five, going into the coal mines to bring out the miners' tools to be sharpened... Read more
Three Churches Join for Talent Show When Jeff Crain, pastor for Omak, Tonasket and Oroville churches, began serving the north-central Washington churches in August 2004, he scheduled the fifth Sabbath of each quarter as a “high Sabbath,” a time when the churches meet together for a ... Read more
Better Health in Yakima If you were to drive into the Yakima Church parking lot on a Tuesday evening, you might have to swerve to miss the orange pylons and/or people walking. The walkers would be attending the “Guard Your Heart” class, one phase of the Adventist Healthy... Read more
Celebrating the Beauty of God's Love Women of all ages from around Upper Columbia Conference received blessings as they converged on Camp Mivoden—first for the young women's retreat, and then the women's retreat. Both weekends were an opportunity to come together and celebrate the be... Read more
