When Community Emergencies Occur Whenever and wherever disaster strikes in the Northwest and around the nation, Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACSDR) is there to help.Disaster response is an integral part of the national and local Adventist Community Services (AC... Read more
North American Native Ministries There are 472 Native American tribes in the North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) territory, nearly half of which are in Washington. Many of the tribes are small and live in townships or small geographical areas.Approximately 7,750,000 Native Amer... Read more
Birth of Buffalo Signals Christs Imminent Return Birth of Buffalo Signals Christ’s Imminent Return Read more
North Pacific Union Valuegenesis Research "This generation!” The exclamation is often said in deep frustration or with exuberant joy. It represents the spectrum of adult responses to the young in the church. And while the church has been successful in providing many significant and person... Read more
Igniting the Flame "We want our kids to amount to something,” Minnie Goodman, a rancher's wife, told her neighbor one day in 1926. “Here in Salmon [Idaho] there are not many opportunities. If our kids go to the local high school, they may get involved with smoking a... Read more
Millennial Kid Power There are about 78 million American "Generation Y" individuals who were born between 1979 and 1994. These “millennial kids” are labeled Generation Y because they follow on the heels of Generation X, people born in the ’60s and ‘70s.Gen Xers lived ... Read more
Adventist Education Does Matter One of the significant questions asked about Adventist education is whether or not children who attend Adventist schools remain in the Adventist Church as adults in substantially greater numbers than children who do not. The recently published res... Read more
Bridges of the Columbia River The Columbia River runs 746 miles within the borders of the North Pacific Union Conference and is one of the geological features that defines the Northwest. Spanning the river are 30 bridges. See if you can match the pictures of the bridges with t... Read more
Cynical About Evangelism If you’ve grown a bit tired of or even a bit cynical about traditional public evangelism, read on because I can certainly relate. It was not until I had been in ministry many years that I preached my first series of meetings. Having recently compl... Read more
