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While a hospital’s primary function is to provide health care services, its influence naturally extends into many other areas of community life.  Not only is a hospital usually among a community’s... More

Sonia Brock, a member of the Palmer Church, hosted a spaghetti dinner in the fellowship room of the church for her friend, Dee Dee Jonrowe, the Iditarod dog sled racer.  Jonrowe suffers from breast... More

Two Anchorage Adventist churches hosted blood drives on Sabbath mornings in November and January.  Forty units were collected by the Blood Bank of Alaska. Some Hillside–O’Malley Church members were... More

Four young people from Bennington, Montpelier, and Rigby, have a desire to tell others about their best Friend—Jesus.  Taking a week last summer they knocked on doors in Pocatello.  They shared Steps... More

Idaho Conference SessionNotice is hereby given that the 50th Regular Session of the Idaho Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in the gymnasium of Gem State Adventist Academy, 16115 S.... More

Pastor Elmer E. Dow has accepted the call to pastor the Lewistown Seventh-day Adventist Church.  He and his wife Marie have two daughters, Naomi, four, and Hannah, one. Dow comes from the Blue Mountain... More

Mount Ellis is proud and grateful to have been selected as the site for the Annual Family Mission Project sponsored by Maranatha Volunteers International.  The project dates are June 19–29.  This is... More

They flocked into the Columbia River Gorge last fall like a host of angels—the MEET (Missionary Education and Evangelistic Training) ministry team from Huntingdon, Tenn., directed by Thomas and... More

A recent mission project of the Hood View church, Boring, Ore., included raising $17,000, donating tools, and sending volunteers to help repair extensive hurricane damage to a Guatemalan orphanage.... More

“The visit of pastor Lutz Binus and his team has been a rewarding and enlightening experience to all the rural masses in and around Tandur,” noted Mr. John, a college professor in town and a devoted... More

Yakima Adventist Christian School (YACS) is proud to announce that Macy Brock, Jonathan Gaskill, Elizabeth Kim, and Ross Vhymeister have been chosen as delegates to the Junior National Young Leaders... More

Polly’s Place Ministries, Inc., has opened Cookie’s Retreat Center, a healing retreat for women and children who are victims of Domestic Violence.  Founded by Adventists, this center is the only one... More

i>. . .  and dear Lord, you know that more than half my band is graduating in May. I’m loosing all my trumpets and tubas.  I need saxaphone and clarinet players and I don’t know where I’m going to... More

The members of the Cheney Church accepted an offer to sell their church building in November.  They transformed the former multipurpose room at the Four Winds Christian Elementary School in Four Lakes... More

Walla Walla College students, faculty, and staff returning from the Christmas holiday season, were given extra reminders of the importance of prayer during the second week of classes.  Week of Prayer... More

The little church in Forks, Washington, was blessed last fall by hosting a Laurelwood Academy pilot program called “Seeds for the Harvest.”  Altogether 27 juniors and seniors and seven staff spent 12... More

Rally the Troops!  Wait, don’t you mean rally the youth?  If you had happened upon the Auburn Adventist Academy gymnasium on Jan. 10 and 11, you would have been faced with hundreds of teens hanging out... More

“Grandma’s House” is the home missionary outreach project of Stu and Joyce Neal, members of the Chehalis Church.  It witnesses and offers practical instruction to mostly unchurched children ages 5... More

Anyone who lives in the Puget Sound area will know that “vacant retail space” has been a prominent feature of the economic recession.  After searching in vain for a mall or department store that would... More

The Washington Conference Executive Committee has elected Bruce Koch to serve as ministerial and stewardship director, a position vacated when Doug Bing became vice president for administration. Born... More

Monroe, Wash., members gathered for an emotional farewell vespers for two families leaving for mission work in foreign countries. The Bartel family, John and Sue with children, Steven and Sarah,... More