Lacey Church Receives a Grant The Lacey Church recently built a fellowship hall for $380,000 and named it Tuttle Hall after the family who donated the land where the church is located.The members borrowed about $110,000 to finish the project and voted in January to pay off the... Read more
Green Lake Launches Fine Arts Ministry The Green Lake Church launched The Green Lake Academy of Fine Arts with a five-day music camp in August.More than 40 children, ages 5–15, participated in an array of classes including violin, cello, piano, organ, harpsichord, drums/percussion, bel... Read more
Auburn Adventist Academy Senior Survival Builds Team Spirit The senior class of 2009 spent Sept. 26–28 on a weekend retreat bonding, camping, playing, working and worshipping together.In addition to traditions like selecting class officers and relaxing on the grounds of beautiful Fort Flagler, the students... Read more
Women Collect Toys for Children Western Washington women are turning “lemons into lemonade” as a result of the annual women's retreat at Ocean Shores this September.Sylvia Matiko, author of the book, Lemons to Lemonade, shared how each person is really a lemon without God. Howev... Read more
Volunteers Build Bethlehem in Auburn Volunteers hauled cement blocks and shoveled dirt in the bright September sun at the beginning of a 12-day block-laying mission in Auburn, Wash. The goal? To lay 14,000 blocks and build a permanent "Bethlehem" structure for the Auburn Academy Chur... Read more
Washington State Reformatory Hosts Four Baptisms There were lots of smiling faces—and really cold water!" says Kim Willis, tireless volunteer program sponsor.But nobody—not even the four inmates in the photo—really minded the chill as they were baptized on Thursday evening, July 24, at the Washi... Read more
New Staff Join Buena Vista Elementary The face of Buena Vista Elementary School’s teaching staff changed drastically this year.Veteran educators Marjorie Lyman (second grade), Roger Hinshaw (sixth grade) and Sue Duncan (office manager) retired from teaching at Buena Vista after 26, 29... Read more
Inner-city Kids Find a Place to Belong On a Thursday morning in August, 53 nervous kids ages 8 to 13 arrived at Sunset Lake Camp. They didn't know what to expect as they left their city life behind in exchange for four days in nature.They soon found themselves in awe of the abounding e... Read more
Enumclaw Members Travel to Chile Church members in Enumclaw, Wash. experienced the thrill of mission work when they traveled to Domeyko, Chile, in July to work with Maranatha to build a church.For the newly constructed church, the Enumclaw group purchased 70 folding chairs in add... Read more
