Whitecoat Veterans Meet for Reunion Have you ever heard of Operation Whitecoat? More than 2,300 United States Army men, many of them Seventh-day Adventists, serving from 1954 through 1973 volunteered to place their lives in harm's way — not necessarily on the front lines of the batt... Read more
Columbia Academy's Thanksgiving "Fun Raising" If "a merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones" (Prov. 17:22), then there was a wealth of health and not a single dry bone at Columbia Adventist Academy's second annual Thanksgiving celebration, "A Cornucopia of... Read more
Airplane Witnessing Last October, our return flight from Chicago, Ill., my wife and I sat by a young man who had the window seat. "What are you doing in the Northwest?" we asked. The young man said he was from India and was taking computer programing. We talked about... Read more
Worship In Pink Celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness October was breast cancer awareness month and the Sharon (Portland, Ore.) Church Women’s Ministries celebrated by joining the Susan G. Komen Puget Sound Affiliate and various churches around the Northwest to Worship in Pink. The event took place o... Read more
First MinistryFest Draws a Crowd The concept of a MinistryFest generated a lot of questions, the most frequent one being: “What’s that?” And it’s a fair question, since we had never done anything like this before in the Oregon Conference. So we described it this way: “Discovering... Read more
Better Life Goes Live in Portland - SIDEBAR What about the potential for additional channels?Better Life is planning on multicasting. Because the channel is digital, up to four channels can be fit on the bandwidth. The channel will start by broadcasting the 3ABN Channel that Better Life cur... Read more
Better Life Goes Live in Portland Portland, Ore.; Vancouver, Wash.; and Salem, Ore., tune your televisions to digital Channel 36 KEVE! As of 1:45 p.m. Wed., Oct. 20, Adventists now have a TV presence in the greater Portland and Salem areas. The Oregon Conference and Better Life Br... Read more
Messiah's Mansion Creates New Connections In September, the Sunnyside Church in Portland, Ore., held a special and unique outreach event with a follow up in October. The presentation of Messiah's Mansion Tabernacle and a follow-up series called "Messiah's Mansion — Next Step Group" were v... Read more
Milo's New Industry Keeps Growing When Ed Wagner of Wagner Electronics from Rogue River, Ore., heard of the need for an industry at Milo Adventist Academy, in Days Creek, Ore., he thought of a possible answer. While waiting for production bids from China for Wagner’s new concrete ... Read more
