A Dream, Some Cookies, and a New Outlook on Life Roseburg Junior Academy (RJA) students recently learned that, although they have always been taught not to judge a book by its cover, most people actually do, in fact. RJA has an amazing 10-acre campus located in one of the best neighborhoods in R... Read more
Boise Valley Goes to Camp Ida-Haven for Outdoor School For the first time, Camp Ida-Haven in McCall, Idaho, hosted Outdoor School for the Boise Valley Adventist School sixth graders. Known to area campers as the place “where the fun never ends,” Camp Ida-Haven will now also be known to Boise Valley Ad... Read more
NW Pathfinders Excel at NAD Level Bible Experience Pathfinder Bible Experience (PBE) teams from around the North Pacific Union fared well in this year's North American Division (NAD) event, held April 26–27 in Rockford, Ill. Ten PBE teams from the Northwest traveled to Rockford to join nearly 100 ... Read more
A Vision for Young Disciples First a story: An overwhelmed teacher and a small group of overactive grade-schoolers led to an epiphany of sorts. After all, what child wouldn’t jump at the chance for a full day of recess? So, while their harried teacher leaned wearily against a... Read more
Three Oranges Save $100 for VBS As the camp meeting team loaded eight totes of Vacation Bible School (VBS) crafts, fresh fruit and warm clothes onto the baggage scales at the Anchorage International Airport, one of the totes was 3 pounds over the 50-pound limit. “You’ll need to ... Read more
5160 Proves Unforgettable The phone rang in the church office one cold February afternoon. I picked up the receiver on the third ring to hear a frantic voice of a teen on the other end: “Ms. Lynette, I need your help. I’ve lost my cell phone, and I need to use your phone t... Read more
150 Washington Youth Get to 'Be the Sermon' Each year, the General Conference sets aside the third Sabbath in March as Global Youth Day, during which Adventist young people come together and impact their communities. Instead of going to church to listen to a sermon, they go outside to “be t... Read more
Upper Columbia Academy Shares Christ in Cambodia On March 18, 2019, 42 students loaded onto the Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) bus to begin their long journey from Spangle, Wash., to Siem Reap, Cambodia. They were headed to an orphanage started and run by Tim and Wendy Maddocks, just outside the c... Read more
