Valley Christian Students Active and Learning In Kittitas Valley, the Valley Christian School (VCS) is continuing to work on their remodeling project with members contributing help in various ways. Meanwhile, the students are having fun learning and helping others in their community and the w... Read more
Pathfinders Find Friendship At Teen Retreat I noticed Terri (not her real name) walking over to talk with Pastor Kevin Wilfley. That was nothing new because teens normally congregate around him to gain insight to his talk or to share comments. However, Terri was carrying a struggle too big—... Read more
Sharing Christ UCA Students Host Evangelistic Series What happens when a teenager has a dream about sharing Christ with others? Add a few friends, a sponsor, and a determination to make an evangelistic series all their own, and you get a nine-night series that results in several requests for Bible s... Read more
Capstone of the Call Eric Shadle Ordained to Pastoral Ministry "It was humbling and awe-inspiring…It was like the capstone to the long journey into pastoral ministry.” These were the words of Eric Shadle, M.D., as he reflected on the experience of ordination to the pastoral ministry.Indeed, the Sabbath aftern... Read more
Community Witness St. Maries Float The St. Maries (Idaho) Church entered a float in the town's Christmas parade Dec. 2, 2006. Several of the children from the church and from the St. Maries Christian School participated. Church members handed out 150 books during the parade. This f... Read more
Troy Church Celebrates 60th Anniversary By the mid-1940s, the Swedish Baptist Church on a Troy, Idaho, country road had long been standing empty because many of the members had moved away. Rumor had it that the church was going to be used for a chicken coop.Roy Nelson, whose father and ... Read more
Have a Homecoming And They Will Come Everyone has something that excites them—what they want to do for ministry. Steve Walker says, “Mine feels like it should be helping the community get to know each other—meaning the community in general and also 'community' meaning other church or... Read more
Free Market Groups Bring Members Together at Eastgate The Eastgate Church in Walla Walla, Wash., has started a program called Free Market Groups."We wanted to find a way to bring people together," said Eastgate Church assistant pastor Eric Sayler. "Everyone has hobbies and interests, so we thought, w... Read more
