Classroom B Can One Sabbath School Class Make a Difference? The atmosphere is charged in Classroom B. In just a few days the Medford Sabbath school class has raised $26,000 for church buildings in India. Matched by Merlin and Jo Ann Fjarli, members of the class, and again by Maranatha Volunteers Internatio... Read more
Columbia Academy Students Give the Gift of Life Students at Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) recently set a record for the highest percentage of eligible donors to volunteer to give blood. The American Red Cross requires that blood donors be at least 17 years old. David Allen, chairperson for C... Read more
Springfield Members Provide Thanksgiving Hospitality The week before Thanksgiving, members of the Springfield Church participated in a “guess whose coming to dinner” event. Some offered to be host homes, and others signed up to be guests. The guests did not know whose house they were going to for a ... Read more
PACS Volunteers Serve up Love Thanksgiving Style “That was the best Thanksgiving I’ve ever had.” “If we hadn’t come here, our family would not have had a Thanksgiving.” Those were just two of the comments heard last November as Portland Adventist Community Services (PACS) hosted community folks ... Read more
Better Life Television Gets a Better Station After more than two years of planning and fundraising, Better Life Television, based in Grants Pass, Ore., is finally getting to spread its wings—thanks to a new studio expansion and some help from volunteers.From Oct. 8–29, 2002, more than 70 vol... Read more
Mt. Ellis Academy Fosters Active Student Events Males Order BridesThe Mt. Ellis class of 2003 staged the play “Males Order Brides” as a fundraiser. English teacher, Anita Strawn de Ojeda, producer, helped the students learn their parts.Student LeadershipThe Associated Student Body officers at M... Read more
Two Ceremonies Royanna Smith and Neil Diamond were married and baptized Sabbath, Oct. 19, 2002, at the Big Timber Church. This was the first marriage at the church in 24 years. Bill Smith, Big Timber pastor (left), performed both ceremonies. Read more
Montana Conference Holds First-ever Prayer Conference The first conference-sponsored prayer conference in Montana was last fall, in Bozeman. Guest speakers, Kevin Wilfley and Randy Maxwell, inspired the 60 participants, representing 11 churches, with stories of answered prayer in their own lives, in ... Read more
Desmond & Frances Doss Impact the Community The Cambridge Idaho Church hosted Medal of Honor recipient Desmond Doss and his wife Frances in Veteran’s Day services during the weekend of Nov. 8–9. But the weekend was not enough to contain invitations for the Dosses, who also participated in s... Read more
