Jonathan Russell Oregon Conference assistant to the president Jonathan Russell also serves as Portland Adventist Community Services Board co-chair. He was formerly Oregon Conference assistant to the president for multimedia communications. By Jonathan Russell Oregon Conference Executive Committee Affirms Commitment to Diversity Jesus set the standard by ministering equally to all persons during His ministry on Earth. Just prior to leaving Earth to return to heaven, He gave the instruction to make disciples of all people, and the closing everlasting gospel to be proclaime... Read more Evacuees Find Shelter in Hope Valley When fires raged across Oregon in September, tens of thousands of people began to evacuate their homes. But where do fleeing families go to escape the flames? Read more 'I Serve': Gladstone Camp Meeting 2020 Goes Online It’s almost camp meeting time! Are you ready? Because of the pandemic restrictions, Gladstone Campground will be uncharacteristically quiet in July. Yet we are prayerfully anticipating a spiritual feast as we experience Gladstone Camp Meeting onli... Read more PACS Announces New Executive Director Portland Adventist Community Services (PACS) invited Laura Pascoe to serve as its next executive director. She began her duties in November 2019. Her selection comes after a four-month search process led by the PACS governing board. Read more Oregon Adventist Stories: Behind the Scenes This spring we started a series on the Oregon Conference Facebook page called Oregon Adventist Stories (OAS) to help connect our members on a more personal level. We asked the founder of Humans of Adventism, Kaleb Eisele, to help us with it. He’s ... Read more Tom Evans to Become Oregon Conference Outreach Ministries Director On Tuesday, June 4, 2019, the Oregon Conference executive committee “unanimously and enthusiastically” voted to invite Tom Evans to become the next outreach ministries director of the Oregon Conference. He enthusiastically accepted the role and wi... Read more 'GiveMe5' Oregon Conference Hispanic Ministries Initiative “What if we were to recapture the idea of evangelism driven by passionate, spirit-filled lay people?” This is the question posed by David Paczka, Oregon Conference Hispanic ministries director back in 2017. From that question, the GiveMe5 Initiati... Read more Iniciativa “Dame5” del Departamento Hispano en Oregon ¿Qué sucedería si resucitáramos un concepto de evangelismo generado por laicos llenos del Espíritu Santo y apasionados por compartir a Cristo? Esta es la pregunta que se hizo el pastor David Paczka, director de Ministerios Hispanos de la conferenc... Read more Plubell Elected Oregon Conference VP for Finance Brent Plubell has accepted the invitation of the Oregon Conference executive and nominating committees to become vice president for finance. He will serve the remainder of the current term, which ends in 2022, stepping into the position left vacan... Read more Hillsboro Spanish Helps Reconnect Families On a chilly January morning, 280 people gathered at Holden Convention Center in Gladstone, Ore., in anticipation of welcoming family members they hadn’t seen in 10 or more years. Years before those gathered had immigrated to the United States, lea... Read more Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3 Next page ››
Oregon Conference Executive Committee Affirms Commitment to Diversity Jesus set the standard by ministering equally to all persons during His ministry on Earth. Just prior to leaving Earth to return to heaven, He gave the instruction to make disciples of all people, and the closing everlasting gospel to be proclaime... Read more
Evacuees Find Shelter in Hope Valley When fires raged across Oregon in September, tens of thousands of people began to evacuate their homes. But where do fleeing families go to escape the flames? Read more
'I Serve': Gladstone Camp Meeting 2020 Goes Online It’s almost camp meeting time! Are you ready? Because of the pandemic restrictions, Gladstone Campground will be uncharacteristically quiet in July. Yet we are prayerfully anticipating a spiritual feast as we experience Gladstone Camp Meeting onli... Read more
PACS Announces New Executive Director Portland Adventist Community Services (PACS) invited Laura Pascoe to serve as its next executive director. She began her duties in November 2019. Her selection comes after a four-month search process led by the PACS governing board. Read more
Oregon Adventist Stories: Behind the Scenes This spring we started a series on the Oregon Conference Facebook page called Oregon Adventist Stories (OAS) to help connect our members on a more personal level. We asked the founder of Humans of Adventism, Kaleb Eisele, to help us with it. He’s ... Read more
Tom Evans to Become Oregon Conference Outreach Ministries Director On Tuesday, June 4, 2019, the Oregon Conference executive committee “unanimously and enthusiastically” voted to invite Tom Evans to become the next outreach ministries director of the Oregon Conference. He enthusiastically accepted the role and wi... Read more
'GiveMe5' Oregon Conference Hispanic Ministries Initiative “What if we were to recapture the idea of evangelism driven by passionate, spirit-filled lay people?” This is the question posed by David Paczka, Oregon Conference Hispanic ministries director back in 2017. From that question, the GiveMe5 Initiati... Read more
Iniciativa “Dame5” del Departamento Hispano en Oregon ¿Qué sucedería si resucitáramos un concepto de evangelismo generado por laicos llenos del Espíritu Santo y apasionados por compartir a Cristo? Esta es la pregunta que se hizo el pastor David Paczka, director de Ministerios Hispanos de la conferenc... Read more
Plubell Elected Oregon Conference VP for Finance Brent Plubell has accepted the invitation of the Oregon Conference executive and nominating committees to become vice president for finance. He will serve the remainder of the current term, which ends in 2022, stepping into the position left vacan... Read more
Hillsboro Spanish Helps Reconnect Families On a chilly January morning, 280 people gathered at Holden Convention Center in Gladstone, Ore., in anticipation of welcoming family members they hadn’t seen in 10 or more years. Years before those gathered had immigrated to the United States, lea... Read more
