Making Christmas Dinner for Convicts Sandy is a cook at a state penitentiary. Every morning he walks past guards, monitors, and large gates. He picks up a set of keys, attaches a radio and identification to his body and walks in and out successive sally ports. One door clangs shut be... Read more
Does Love Actually Work? Incarcerated at the McNeil Island Corrections Center and seven years into a 10-year sentence, the only consistent thing in my life was the routine of incarceration. Things had gotten so bad; I was housed in the Inmate Management Unit or special co... Read more
Courage to Stand They came from all corners of the Northwest, by air and by land. They joined 35,000 peers from around the world at the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture Campground in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from August 11–15, for the 2009 International Pat... Read more
"Stories From Our Lives:" Humor, tragedy, heartbreak, healing, loss, redemption ... As with most health care institutions, Adventist Health is filled not only with patients, beds, doctors and nurses, but with stories. For each patient that walks in the door and for each cl... Read more
When God Answers the Phone: The emergency room was slammed. Ambulances rolled in one after another and patients were piling up at the front desk to check in. At the same time, Erika Rootvik, admitting clerk, was trying to implement a new standardized telephone script. Little... Read more
Sacred Work Facts about Adventist Health:Headquartered in Roseville, California.17 hospitals in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.28 rural health clinics.14 home care agencies offering home health, hospice, personal care, medical equipment and infusio... Read more
Sacred Work When I think about what makes Adventist Health what it is today, I think of our people and our mission. When I think about what Adventist Health does, I think of Sacred Work.As you will read in this annual Adventist Health special edition of the G... Read more
Creation: A Matter of Science or Faith? "Walla Walla University is founded on Christian teaching and values as understood and appreciated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church."That first sentence in our Philosophy of Education Statement emphasizes our privilege and responsibility for pro... Read more
Creation: A Matter of Science or Faith? In a statement released June 19, Jan Paulsen, Adventist World Church president, appealed to church administrators, ministers, teachers and writers to articulate and reflect the church's stand on creation."I place this before you in awareness of an... Read more
