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Bernice Hartzell

By Bernice Hartzell

  • Three Churches Join for Talent Show

    March 01, 2006, by Bernice Hartzell
    When Jeff Crain, pastor for Omak, Tonasket and Oroville churches, began serving the north-central Washington churches in August 2004, he scheduled the fifth Sabbath of each quarter as a “high Sabbath,” a time when the churches meet together for a ...
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  • A Boy and His Coach Are Baptized

    March 01, 2006, by Bernice Hartzell
    In the spring of 2005 during family worship, Jeff Crain, Omak (Wash.) Church pastor, asked whom the family members would like to pray for. His son, Joey, asked for prayer for his coach, Jack Beers, “that he would love Jesus and come to church.”Cra...
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  • Brothers Become Sixth-generation Adventists

    April 01, 2005, by Bernice Hartzell
    Shortly after Jeff Crain came to pastor the Omak (Wash.) Church, Sherrie Sype and Daryl Jacobson requested Bible study materials on baptism for their two sons, Kurt, 15, and Brent, l2. They had been attending Sabbath School and worship services re...
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  • Omak Man Joins His Wife in Baptism —50 Years Later

    February 01, 2005, by Bernice Hartzell
    Virgil Crewes was baptized at the Omak Church by Pastor David Woodruff. Two other men, Bill Kitterman and Michael Horton, became Adventist Christians through profession of faith.Crewes’ wife, Carole, had been baptized 50 years earlier. For years, ...
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