The Antioch Project Connects with Bible-Study Interests In 2010 People to People Ministries Inc. launched an outreach program that hires Bible workers to work with churches in the Portland, Ore., area. For more than 30 years, PPM has been involved in inner-city ministry offering tutoring, educational s... Read more
He Knows My Name Oregon Christian Women's Retreat 2010 For many women, the idea that the God of all Heaven and earth knows their names is a profound and touching new thought. This was the theme at the 2010 Oregon Christian Women’s Retreat, held in Florence, Ore., in October. Unpacking that theme was s... Read more
Milo Miracles Tim Riesenberger, a Seattle, Wash., physician, led Milo Adventist Academy's Fall Week of Prayer, building around the theme that everyone needs a heart transplant.Sharing his own testimony of coming to experience God’s love, he wove in gripping sto... Read more
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
