Youth Rush Students Touch Lives For Christ For the past two years, the Upper Columbia Conference has hosted a summer youth ministry called Youth Rush. Youth Rush is a 10–week summer program where students get involved in literature evangelism, work with a team of other students and learn v... Read more
Communion with 300 UCA Kicks off the Year Many of us have had people over for worship to bring in the Sabbath. However, have you ever had worship and communion at your house with 300 of your friends? Troy Patzer, Upper Columbia Academy principal, welcomed the entire student body, staff, f... Read more
St. Maries Church Family Rejoices over Baptism On July 9, John Peirce, pastor, had the pleasure of baptizing Filip Slansky in the St. Joe River in St. Maries, Idaho. Slansky is from the Czech Republic. He came back this summer to visit his former host family, Syd and Sue Clark, whom he affecti... Read more
Wenatchee Remembers Sam Knutson, Wenatchee, Wash., businessman, believes collective memory is as important to a church as short-term memory is to an individual, so he proposed a Sabbath for "Remembering.""A person with amnesia or a church with Alzheimer's loses a sen... Read more
Dayton Day Camp Connecting Kids With Christ The Dayton (Wash.) Adventist Church struggled for years making a significant impact in their community. Time and again they tried reaching their neighbors but kept finding closed doors. That’s when they decided to try something different.Members d... Read more
Newly Ordained to the Gospel Ministry David "Dayv" Lounsbury was ordained on May 28, at the Spokane (Wash.) Central Church. This occasion is a significant occasion in his spiritual journey. Lounsbury was born and raised in Yakima, Wash. Growing up in another denomination, he did not b... Read more
More of His Travelers than Ever Eight young adults lit a flame of inspiration across Eastern Washington this summer. The group called His Travelers, visited 16 churches around the Upper Columbia Conference conducting Vacation Bible Schools, community service events and youth min... Read more
Sharing Jesus in Irrigon The Irrigon Church was proud to have hosted the All About Jesus Revival Seminar presented by Lee and Marji Venden. The seminar was held at the Irrigon Church in Irrigon, Ore., but was attended by members from other area churches as well. It began ... Read more
Evangelistic Meetings A Wonderful Event As the evangelistic series, led by Brian McMahon, drew to its conclusion in May, the members of the Valley View Church in East Wenatchee, Wash., had many reasons to rejoice. Over the course of two Sabbaths, 14 new converts chose to be baptized and... Read more
