Students Learn Art of Service As educators teach academics, they also strive to mold young people for ministry and service. Here's a report of service activities in Washington Conference schools:At Baker View Christian School in Bellingham, Wash., students and teachers engaged... Read more
White Earns Doctorate Denise White, Washington Conference associate superintendent of schools, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at La Sierra University in May, and received her degree in education administration and leadership in June.Her study of Cognit... Read more
Defining Moments, Touching Lives: Pre-med Students Help Hospice Patients In the face of death, volunteers at Adventist Medical Center seek the meanings of life. Their purpose is to honor the dying and comfort the surviving, but in the end, all are blessed.By taking part in Defining Moments, a program capturing the live... Read more
Northwest Women's Ministries Announces New Directors NPUC Conferences' women's ministries directors for 2009–2010 are as follows:Wilma Bing/Washington32229 Weyerhaeuser Way SouthFederal Way, WA 98001(253) 681-6008 (o)(206) 963-7011 (c)Wilma.bing@wc.npuc.orgCheri Gatton/Idaho2153 N. Pollard LaneStar,... Read more
A Life of Learning WWU's Oldest Student Turns 99 Most people count down the days to graduation from college with excitement and impatience. Desires to get out into the "real world" and experience life as an adult with a degree—getting a job, starting a family—overshadow everything else.For Effie... Read more
World News Briefs - June Web Only Because this section doesn't amount to much without its page design, it is not available here. You can see the World News Briefs page for this month by looking in the print edition of GLEANER or by clicking on the PDF version. To get to the PDF ve... Read more
Palmer Members Celebrate Purim Festival Wearing exotic costumes, members of the Palmer (Alaska) Church celebrated the second annual Purim festival, a joyous, noisy Jewish feast commemorating the brave and beautiful Queen Esther.For the March 21 event, the fellowship hall was transformed... Read more
Tok Youth Leads Harvest in Hispaniola Tok (Alaska) Church is used to having the coldest temperatures in the winter for the North American Division but members there are still feeling the warmth from helping to sponsor Betty C. C. on her mission to the La Trinidad Church in the Dominic... Read more
From Alaska to Africa Don Bliss, in charge of truck maintenance at Klondike Concrete in Chugiak, Alaska, heard about the ShareHIM campaign being held in Tanzania, East Africa. Bliss still doesn't quite know how he got involved. He called the conference asking questions... Read more