Shelley Bacon Upper Columbia Academy recruiting and communication director By Shelley Bacon UCA Holds First Youth Church Connecting youth to Jesus and encouraging commitment to and involvement in church has been a theme of much discussion in the Adventist Church as many recent studies indicate young people are leaving the church in alarming numbers. How can we keep ... Read more Interdisciplinary Project Kicks Off the Year at UCA “When students write about something deeply personal and meaningful, they write well,” says Michelle Melendy, counselor and English teacher at Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) in Spangle, Wash. She witnessed this during the 2017–18 school year when sh... Read more UCA Begins Internship Program Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) in Spangle, Wash., will be adding a required internship for all juniors beginning with the 2018–2019 school year. Students will be released from regular schoolwork to get a taste of their future occupation for two week... Read more UCA Steps Back to the Future With Agriculture What is green on the inside, metal on the outside and high-tech all over? Why, a container full of microgreens, of course! Read more God’s Got His Running Shoes On “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord … will not grow tired or weary … but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength … they will run and not grow weary” (Isa. 40:27). Have you ever thought of God as a runner, running after His ... Read more Voices Join Together for UCA Choral Clinic It was well worth the drive on snowy and icy roads to hear the Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) Choral Clinic finale performance on Jan. 19 in Spangle, Wash. Students from around the Pacific Northwest joined the UCA choir to create a mass choir of bea... Read more Virtual Field Trip With NASA! To reach out to their community, the Colville Valley Junior Academy is providing several virtual field trips on space and other science topics. The first one, held Jan. 16, attracted 22 guest students and 10 parents, with 11 students from the comm... Read more KEEPing Students in Christian Education The Upper Columbia Conference Kids Educational/Endowment/Scholarship Program (KEEP) committee continues to balance the rising cost of church school tuition with a growing number of students who desire a Christian education.A recent survey commissi... Read more Another KEEP Mystery...Stay Tuned! Kimberly faced a huge dilemma last Christmas. She wanted the very best for her eight-year-old son Cody. And Cody wanted to stay in his Christian school—wanted to so badly that when Mom asked him what he would like for Christmas, he replied, “I wan... Read more
UCA Holds First Youth Church Connecting youth to Jesus and encouraging commitment to and involvement in church has been a theme of much discussion in the Adventist Church as many recent studies indicate young people are leaving the church in alarming numbers. How can we keep ... Read more
Interdisciplinary Project Kicks Off the Year at UCA “When students write about something deeply personal and meaningful, they write well,” says Michelle Melendy, counselor and English teacher at Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) in Spangle, Wash. She witnessed this during the 2017–18 school year when sh... Read more
UCA Begins Internship Program Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) in Spangle, Wash., will be adding a required internship for all juniors beginning with the 2018–2019 school year. Students will be released from regular schoolwork to get a taste of their future occupation for two week... Read more
UCA Steps Back to the Future With Agriculture What is green on the inside, metal on the outside and high-tech all over? Why, a container full of microgreens, of course! Read more
God’s Got His Running Shoes On “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord … will not grow tired or weary … but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength … they will run and not grow weary” (Isa. 40:27). Have you ever thought of God as a runner, running after His ... Read more
Voices Join Together for UCA Choral Clinic It was well worth the drive on snowy and icy roads to hear the Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) Choral Clinic finale performance on Jan. 19 in Spangle, Wash. Students from around the Pacific Northwest joined the UCA choir to create a mass choir of bea... Read more
Virtual Field Trip With NASA! To reach out to their community, the Colville Valley Junior Academy is providing several virtual field trips on space and other science topics. The first one, held Jan. 16, attracted 22 guest students and 10 parents, with 11 students from the comm... Read more
KEEPing Students in Christian Education The Upper Columbia Conference Kids Educational/Endowment/Scholarship Program (KEEP) committee continues to balance the rising cost of church school tuition with a growing number of students who desire a Christian education.A recent survey commissi... Read more
Another KEEP Mystery...Stay Tuned! Kimberly faced a huge dilemma last Christmas. She wanted the very best for her eight-year-old son Cody. And Cody wanted to stay in his Christian school—wanted to so badly that when Mom asked him what he would like for Christmas, he replied, “I wan... Read more
