Cookie’s Retreat Center Opens Polly’s Place Ministries, Inc., has opened Cookie’s Retreat Center, a healing retreat for women and children who are victims of Domestic Violence. Founded by Adventists, this center is the only one of its kind on the West Coast. Located in the hea... Read more
Spokane’s East Central Community Company Pays Their Debt Sabbath evening, Dec. 14, 2002, was no ordinary evening for the members of the East Central Community Company because they paid their debt.Wayne Searson, Upper Columbia Conference corporation director, commended the congregation for putting fourth... Read more
What Do You Do with 23 Trumpet Players? UCA Initiates Gifted Musician Scholarship i>. . . and dear Lord, you know that more than half my band is graduating in May. I’m loosing all my trumpets and tubas. I need saxaphone and clarinet players and I don’t know where I’m going to get them. Please provide for my needs in these areas... Read more
The Cheney Church Is on the Move The members of the Cheney Church accepted an offer to sell their church building in November. They transformed the former multipurpose room at the Four Winds Christian Elementary School in Four Lakes into a beautiful sanctuary and moved in.In spit... Read more
Cole Ordained In Pendleton Church Dan Cole was ordained on Nov. 30, 2002, at the Pendleton, Ore., Church where he is an associate pastor. During the ceremony Dan’s father, Paul Cole, pastor of the Albany, Ore., Church, gave the “Challenge to Ministry” sermon. He encouraged Dan in ... Read more
Exceptional Experience For Academy Biology Students Upper Columbia Academy’s advanced biology students recently had an unusual opportunity to simulate forensic studies with the latest of scientific equipment, thanks to the Howard Hughes Foundation and Washington State University.“They loaned us all... Read more
Miracle Squash And Investment Pumpkins When church members take God as a project Partner, amazing things can happen. After Otis Parks, retired pastor of the Troy, Idaho, Church, returned from a seven-week mission trip to Africa last year, he was determined to grow some pumpkins and squ... Read more
New Birth Baptism For Born Pam Born was welcomed into the Tonasket Church on Sept. 26, 2002. The church doesn’t have a baptistry, so after a special potluck lunch in her honor, family and friends gathered at the Omak Church to witness her baptism by David Woodruff, pastor o... Read more
Tenth Annual Brody Award In Wenatchee Church The Wenatchee Adventist church presented its annual “Brody Award” in a November church service. The first award was given to Elmer and Lila Brody in 1992 for their lifelong commitment to the Wenatchee community through the Adventist Community Serv... Read more
