Reflections on Summer Camps Sun-filled days. Splashing water. New adventures. Smiling faces. Changing lives. These memory flashes are small glimpses of what the conference-sponsored, summer-ministry camps provide for Northwest kids.At camp these kids enjoy an almost unlimite... Read more
The Environment and You 1. If Americans recycled all their unwanted junk mail, how many trees could be saved?A. 100,000B. 100,000,000C. 1,000,000,000D. I don’t use trees for paper.2. How many plastic bags would be saved each year if just 25 percent of American families u... Read more
Thank You, Camp Staff As a former camp director, I can attest to the quality and value of our youth and family camp programs.There are at least five reasons why this “big business” of camp operation deserves the support and trust we place in it.· At a time when the wor... Read more
GO! with Gospel Outreach "Bad will be the day for every man when . . . there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God."—... Read more
FOREST GROVE MINISTRY REPORT The Christ 2004 meetings, held at the Forest Grove Spanish Church November 6–20, were the result of months of planning and preparation by church members, Bible workers, area pastors, and local and union conference leadership.North Pacific Union Co... Read more
God's Mysterious Ways God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; … William Cowper (1731-1800)Rosa Maria Ramirez was despondent. Her husband of 15 years had left her, taking their daughter with him and leaving her with their son, 12-year-old Juan Carlos. She... Read more
What Could Happen . . . If every Adventist church had a yearly soul-winning plan? Like Wenatchee, Washington's Abundant Life Church where the church board organized two six-month cycles, each of which included a week of prayer and fasting, outreach activities, Bible stud... Read more
Evangelism The Miracle of Changed Lives Tom James is the pastor of the Centralia Church in the Washington Conference. As a builder in Vancouver, Washington, prior to becoming a pastor, he started several construction businesses. He was also a charter member of the Orchards Church in Van... Read more
Rosario Beach To those who know it well, the Walla Walla College (WWC) Marine Station at Rosario Beach is hallowed ground. It is a place removed from the rush of daily life, where students and professors need merely walk out of the classroom and down to the bea... Read more
