Night Duty: Answering God's Call Tom Stafford unlocked the door to the chaplain’s office and flipped on the light. Everyone was gone for the day, but as a relief chaplain at Adventist Medical Center (AMC) in Portland, Ore., Tom had just finished his evening rounds on the units. A... Read more
Preserving the Spirit of Healing: The Chaplains' Endowment At AMC, chaplains are a critical component of patient care. To that end, the hospital has established a Chaplains' Endowment Fund with the ambitious goal of raising $6.2 million. After four years, more than $5.2 million has already been donated an... Read more
North Pacific Missionaries Testify at Maranatha Convention The inevitable rustlings of a crowd of more than 600 people dissolved into silence at the words of Ken Lauren, family practice physican from Redmond, Wash.“I think I represent a significant number of people who had left the Adventist Church and we... Read more
Maranatha Fast Facts • The 2004 Convention celebrated the 35th anniversary of the organization.• Maranatha was founded in 1969 by John Freeman, then a resident of Berrien Springs, Michigan.• Over the years, Maranatha has mobilized 55,000 volunteers in 61 countries.• I... Read more
Maranatha Convention Project: Big Lake Youth Camp More than 100 volunteers occupied Big Lake Youth Camp in Sisters, Ore., Sept. 22–Oct. 7 for the Maranatha Convention mission project. Volunteers, who stayed in RVs or camp cabins for the duration of the project, worked on renovations throughout th... Read more
Cheri Peters Speaks to Women and Youth The fifth annual Aleknagik Women’s Retreat was held Sept. 24–27 on Aleknagik Island, which is accessible only by a boat ride from the mouth of Lake Aleknagik. “God feels very close out there away from the noise and people of the town,” reported Be... Read more
Tentmaker Wanted Native Americans Embrace Adventism It was a cold and windy day with almost freezing temperatures when Rick Binford, pastor of the Savoonga, Gambel, and Selawik churches, conducted a baptism outside the little Adventist church in Savoonga, a village of 800 people situated along the ... Read more
Praise in the Park, An End-of-the-Summer OutreachOasis Style "Why not have church in the park some Sabbath?” thought a father as he ate lunch with his daughter in the park. A few months later, that father was working as the youth director for the Oasis Church in Boise. He presented the idea to the church as... Read more
Blessings at Idaho Conference Christian Womens Retreat Blessings at Idaho Conference Christian Women’s Retreat Read more
