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Clark Fork Church Gets Revitalized

August 05, 2020, by Beth Duffey

Rain has been no stranger to Clark Fork, Idaho, this year. After a wet and cool spring, we determined it was time to replace our original metal roof on our church. Our planned repair date got rained out! We finally were able to start our project o...

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How Indigenous Alaskans Await the Resurrection

August 04, 2020, by Jim Kincaid

The diversity of traditions among indigenous people groups regarding care of the deceased and interment are an interesting study. In Alaska, great care is taken with funeral preparations, casket making, grave digging and after-care of the gravesite.

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Valley View Members Find Safe Way to Worship Together

August 03, 2020, by Kathy Marson et al.

The new interim pastor preached his first sermon at the Valley View Adventist Church in East Wenatchee, Washington. Then everyone stopped coming to church. That’s how Tye Davis laughed about his experience just before Washington issued stay-at-hom...

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Drive-in Church Gets a Welcome Visit

July 30, 2020, by Jim John

The dark, unfamiliar SUV pulled into the line of cars getting positioned for the start of Anchorage Northside’s drive-in church at the Anchorage Junior Academy parking area. This vehicle had never seen before. Being able to quickly recognize a var...

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NPUC Mails Conference Stimulus Checks

July 23, 2020, by Jay Wintermeyer

The North Pacific Union Conference announced Monday, July 20, 2020, a $625,000 financial stimulus package to aid its six conferences in the Northwest.

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UCC 'Search and Rescue' Reaches Thousands

July 15, 2020, by Kathy Marson

This year’s camp meeting was unusual but powerful. “Search and Rescue,” held virtually at the Spokane Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church in eastern Washington, was attended by thousands every night. The YouTube views of the Sabbath program surpas...

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Hamilton Wedding Vow Renewal Inspires Members

July 12, 2020, by Bill Whitney

Jesus presided over the very first wedding in the garden and told Adam and Eve that, with their marriage, they were now one and what He had joined together no one should break apart (Gen. 2:21–24, Matt. 19:4–6). The Bible often uses the marriage m...

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Interview with New NAD President Alex Bryant

July 09, 2020

On July 9, 2020 G. Alexander Bryant was elected the fifth president of the North American Division (NAD) of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. NAD Communication Director Daniel Weber sat down with Elder Bryant and discusse...

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Bryant Named NAD President

July 09, 2020, by Kimberly Luste Maran

On July 9, 2020, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s General Conference executive committee met virtually to receive the name of G. Alexander Bryant, the recommendation for division president, from both the North American Division’s nominating comm...

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Hot Springs Adventist Community Services Thrift Store Restarts Operations

July 08, 2020, by Gabriele Laub

On Tuesday June 9, 2020, I visited with Dianne Roosma and her team of dedicated volunteers a the Hot Springs Adventist Community Service Thrift Store. I was able to deliver a dozen of cleanup; flood buckets, which the center can give away with cle...

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Kalispell Donates Masks, Gloves

July 05, 2020, by Gabriele Laub

On May 27, 2020, on behalf of the Kalispell Church disaster response action, I was able to deliver 1,000 masks and 400 gloves to the Kingman Regional Medical Center Foundation. These will help shore up supplies at our local hospital should things ...

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Ministering From Afar

July 04, 2020, by Natashia McVay

The past two and a half months have been some of the most challenging months of pastoral work I have ever experienced. The ever-changing atmosphere of our world, rising tensions, mounting pressures, the daily toil of “normal” life today is taking ...

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