Feature Caring Heart Award Winners for 2012 Thirteen Northwest academy students were recipients of the $500 Caring Heart Award Scholarship made possible through three-way funding from the North Pacific Union Conference, local conferences and academies. Students were selected by their school... Read more Amanda's Story "I was so upset. I just had to talk to Paige," Amanda says, "so I drove all the way to Caldwell to talk to my best friend. We sat there in the car for a long time, me crying and Paige listening."Amanda Carrithers and Paige Jansen had been best of ... Read more An Answer in an Agate Eight-year-old Jaicee was visiting my South Dakota home with her family from Montana. She gazed silently in wide-eyed wonder at my collection of rocks and fossils arranged on bookshelves throughout the basement."Grandma, did you find all these?""A... Read more Adventist Chaplains In a rare moment of personal time, Jay Coon, Auburn Adventist Academy associate pastor, purposefully pushes a shopping cart toward the supermarket produce section. With a full basket, he's nearly done with his grocery list when the pager buzzes. T... Read more Editors' Note This month's feature on Northwest Adventist chaplains focuses on two groups: those who serve their communities as volunteers and those who provide critical spiritual support within the military. Hospital chaplains and those who work within college... Read more Portland Adventist Community Services More than 200 name badge buttons line a bulletin board along one wall in the offices of Portland Adventist Community Services (PACS). Gaps reveal missing badges, although they're not really lost. They are "in action," attached to their namesakes o... Read more PACS Facts More than 200 volunteers work at PACS.More than 1 in 9 families live without health benefits in Oregon.PACS provided 87,817 people a 3–5 day emergency food portion during 2011.220,260 people used thrift store services in 2011.1,442 people visited ... Read more Editor's Note Adventist Community Services (ACS) centers provide critical services to communities across the Northwest. Some are small. Some are big. All are important. Adventist Community Services (PACS) in Portland, Oregon, is one example of how ACS volunteer... Read more Giving Is a Choice I had stepped outside from the clinic to catch a breath of fresh air when I saw a man approach the door to our food pantry. He gave the door a brisk tug. It was locked.I looked at my watch and sighed. It was well past closing time."I'm really sorr... Read more A Place at the Table With more than seven decades, and medical issues behind and ahead, you might think Don Deardorff has every reason to take it easy. But instead of striking up the violins, Don would rather spend his hours reaching out to the communities around his ... Read more Youth Leaders Step Forward with Sidewalk Kids It doesn't officially take the stage this year for another three months, but Greg and Shelly Hillman are already clustered with a group of 10–15 youth leaders, working on plans for their eighth Sidewalk Kids summer season. Similar to a traveling V... Read more Our Sisters' House Some people retire with visions of sandy shores and days of leisure. Bettye Blakeney's eyes were on a different target.Blakeney had taught nursing students for years, when she decided to retire — "while they still liked me," she says with a smile.... Read more Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Current page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Caring Heart Award Winners for 2012 Thirteen Northwest academy students were recipients of the $500 Caring Heart Award Scholarship made possible through three-way funding from the North Pacific Union Conference, local conferences and academies. Students were selected by their school... Read more
Amanda's Story "I was so upset. I just had to talk to Paige," Amanda says, "so I drove all the way to Caldwell to talk to my best friend. We sat there in the car for a long time, me crying and Paige listening."Amanda Carrithers and Paige Jansen had been best of ... Read more
An Answer in an Agate Eight-year-old Jaicee was visiting my South Dakota home with her family from Montana. She gazed silently in wide-eyed wonder at my collection of rocks and fossils arranged on bookshelves throughout the basement."Grandma, did you find all these?""A... Read more
Adventist Chaplains In a rare moment of personal time, Jay Coon, Auburn Adventist Academy associate pastor, purposefully pushes a shopping cart toward the supermarket produce section. With a full basket, he's nearly done with his grocery list when the pager buzzes. T... Read more
Editors' Note This month's feature on Northwest Adventist chaplains focuses on two groups: those who serve their communities as volunteers and those who provide critical spiritual support within the military. Hospital chaplains and those who work within college... Read more
Portland Adventist Community Services More than 200 name badge buttons line a bulletin board along one wall in the offices of Portland Adventist Community Services (PACS). Gaps reveal missing badges, although they're not really lost. They are "in action," attached to their namesakes o... Read more
PACS Facts More than 200 volunteers work at PACS.More than 1 in 9 families live without health benefits in Oregon.PACS provided 87,817 people a 3–5 day emergency food portion during 2011.220,260 people used thrift store services in 2011.1,442 people visited ... Read more
Editor's Note Adventist Community Services (ACS) centers provide critical services to communities across the Northwest. Some are small. Some are big. All are important. Adventist Community Services (PACS) in Portland, Oregon, is one example of how ACS volunteer... Read more
Giving Is a Choice I had stepped outside from the clinic to catch a breath of fresh air when I saw a man approach the door to our food pantry. He gave the door a brisk tug. It was locked.I looked at my watch and sighed. It was well past closing time."I'm really sorr... Read more
A Place at the Table With more than seven decades, and medical issues behind and ahead, you might think Don Deardorff has every reason to take it easy. But instead of striking up the violins, Don would rather spend his hours reaching out to the communities around his ... Read more
Youth Leaders Step Forward with Sidewalk Kids It doesn't officially take the stage this year for another three months, but Greg and Shelly Hillman are already clustered with a group of 10–15 youth leaders, working on plans for their eighth Sidewalk Kids summer season. Similar to a traveling V... Read more
Our Sisters' House Some people retire with visions of sandy shores and days of leisure. Bettye Blakeney's eyes were on a different target.Blakeney had taught nursing students for years, when she decided to retire — "while they still liked me," she says with a smile.... Read more
