Canyonville Church Offers Self-defense Class The Canyonville (Ore.) Church Women's Ministries hosted a self-defense class in March lead by Dan Martin and Gary Provencal, Douglas County Corrections deputies. Enrolled in the class were 17 members, including two teenage girls. The seminar cover... Read more
Vancouver Church is Still Growing Beards and All Gene Heinrich, Vancouver Church associate pastor of evangelism and family ministries, made a bold appeal from the pulpit for the men to grow their beards. He was soliciting would-be disciples for the church's first-ever Last Supper re-enactment. T... Read more
Equipping Students With Life Skills Auto Service ClassMore Than Just Working on Cars How are a grill, a cam shaft bearing, and prayer related? They usually aren't, unless perhaps you are rebuilding an engine and in need of a miracle.Nestor Celaya and Shawn Murphy, both Milo Academy seniors, experienced firsthand God’s miraculous p... Read more
Pancakes and Prayers Lents Church Celebrates Youth Transition The Lents Church celebrated 10 years of Youth Transition with a special program on Sabbath, April 14. Current members of the youth group led out, while a slideshow and videotaped messages from former group members and leaders recalled memories fro... Read more
PACS Welcomes New Director Portland Adventist Community Services (PACS) has new leadership. Leonard Yost joined the organization in May as Executive Director.Yost takes the helm of one of Adventist Community Services' largest branches. He will manage the small group of staf... Read more
Equipping Students sidebar What the Students Think:Student responses at the end of the year reflect their feelings about the changes made to auto service class.It was by far my favorite class in high school. —Tim Steinhoefel, seniorActually touching and handling the equipme... Read more
Mission Trip to Yucatan No Ordinary Senior Class Trip for Livingstone Students Livingstone Adventist Academy's seniors came home from their mission trip to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico with good memories and lasting relationships. The class of 12 went to an area in Cancun where Hurricane Wilma destroyed much of the alread... Read more
Montana Celebrates The Lord of the Harvest At Camp Meeting 2007 "Are you ready to pray a radical prayer?" Derek Morris, Forest Lake Church (Fla.) senior pastor asked at the evening meetings, "a prayer that will change your life?" Morris, the main speaker for the event, challenged the audience to beg the Lord o... Read more
Kalispell Church Offers Seminars, Evangelistic Meetings The Kalispell Church has been finding ways to reach their community with various classes and evangelistic efforts, including a depression recovery seminar and cooking class.In March, Tony Moore, The Biblical Word (Chino Hills, Calif.) director, pr... Read more