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What a time to be parenting a Generation Z kid! There are so many things vying for my children’s attention. I want to be doing intentional things in my parenting journey that show them who Christ is, but, I am not going to lie, it’s hard. I am always reading books, articles and blog posts. I [...]
As a young adult, several friends invited me to attend church with them. I was searching for God and truth. This led me to study the Bible.Soon I was born again of the Holy Spirit and baptized as a Seventh-day Adventist with a new heart devoted to God. My habits and priorities began to change.The [...]
Follow the daily reading plan and you will read the entire Bible in a year. April 1: James April 2: Acts 17 April 3: Galatians April 4: Acts 18:1–18 April 5: 1 Thessalonians April 7: Mark 10–11 April 8: Luke 19 April 9: Matt. 22–23 April 10: Mark 12–13 April 11: Matt. 20–21 April 12: [...]
Jesus commissioned His people to reach the whole world with the good news that God is love. What a beautiful message to share worldwide. However, many of us cannot go to the mission field, so what a blessing it is that God is sending the mission field to us.There are 2.35 million Muslims spread across [...]
Elected representatives for North Pacific Union heard energizing reports about church vitality at the most recent executive committee meeting on March 6.“NPUC is seeing an uptick in multiplying churches, and we celebrate this,” said Bill McClendon, NPUC vice president for administration. “Our growing churches are growing, our plateauing churches are decreasing in number and our [...]
One of the best pieces of advice to new board members and administrators of an organization is to avoid surprises. An organization and its leaders should mitigate surprises by being timely and transparent if they're going to work together effectively.Advance preparation can minimize negative surprises. Being familiar with the institution's risk factors, paying attention, preparing [...]
Editorial Note: Meet Cortnee Blayton, a social media marketer for an e-commerce company in Seattle, and join her in a #NWAdventists blogging journey about everyday faith. Her favorite Christian saying is "God doesn't call the qualified, but qualifies the called." "A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones" (Prov. [...]
Follow the daily reading plan and you will read the entire Bible in a year. March 1: Acts 18:19–28 March 3: 1 Cor. 1–4 March 4: 1 Cor. 5–8 March 5: 1 Cor. 9–11 March 6: 1 Cor. 12–16 March 7: Philemon March 8: 2 Corinthians March 10: Rom. 1–7 March 11: Rom. 8–16 March [...]
A special Sabbath service at Tillamook Adventist Church on Nov. 11, 2023 capped a year-long 50th anniversary celebration of Adventist healthcare in Tillamook, Oregon. The word “community” reverberated among the current and previous hospital employees who gathered to reminisce and celebrate. “What has happened at this hospital has taken everyone pulling together,” said one employee.“When I lost my son, this place became my [...]
When I was 7 years old, we started attending a small church on the Lummi Nation reservation in Whatcom County. We drove 55 minutes each Saturday morning to attend the church that was recently built on my mom’s reservation. My parents, Brian and Nina Cladoosby, were both committed to breaking cycles of generational trauma to [...]
Sometimes the best way to say thanks is to share a story in memory. This is the case with Bruce Ramberg, Coquille Church member, who should have been on a fiery rooftop. Ramberg leads a full life today that includes roles such as husband to Kathy, who serves her local church as head deaconess and [...]
Upper Columbia Academy Elementary School leaders recently asked upper-grade students to answer the question, “What do you like about this school?” Here’s what they said, in their own voices. “Every time I finish an assignment, I go out with the sweet assurance that I have done my duty.” — Sixth-grade student “There are lots of things [...]
At Peninsula Adventist Elementary School, we are like family. Together we develop new ideas to improve the school, and we’d like to introduce our special teams. The first team is leadership. The students on this team created a school mascot with a scripture. They are currently working on a school improvement plan to ensure we [...]
Nadine Dower, former Gleaner managing editor from 2003–2008, passed away on Jan. 5, 2024 in Seattle, Washington, a day short of her 80th birthday. Born on Jan. 6, 1944 in Spokane, Washington, Nadine had a significant impact on Adventist communication outreach efforts throughout her career. Nadine, along with her husband Richard (Dick), who served as [...]
Most Christians have never completely read their Bible. Many start, but then get overwhelmed. Follow this Bible reading plan to read the entire Bible in one year. Feb. 1: Exod. 7–9Feb. 2: Exod. 10–12 Feb. 4: Exod. 19–21Feb. 5: Exod. 22–24Feb. 6: Exod. 25–27Feb. 7: Exod. 28–29Feb. 8 Exod. 30–32Feb. 9: Exod. 33–38 Feb. 11: Exod. 39–40Feb. 12: Lev. 1–4Feb. 13: Lev. 5–7Feb. 14: Lev. [...]
Walla Walla University’s board of trustees has announced the establishment of a 13-member presidential search committee to immediately begin the work of naming the institution’s 24th president, following the announcement that John McVay, current president, will retire at the end of the 2023–2024 academic year. The search committee’s members represent the university’s key stakeholder groups, [...]
More than 350 pastors, teachers and staff from across Oregon Conference met at Columbia Riverfront Holiday Inn at Jantzen Beach, Jan. 8–9, 2024 for the first in-person Together as One convention since 2020. Beginning in 2015, Together as One is an annual event focused on building collaborations between local Seventh-day Adventist schools and churches in Oregon [...]
Follow the daily reading plan and you will read the entire Bible in a year. Jan. 1: Neh. 8–10 Jan. 2: Neh. 11–13; Psalm 126 Jan. 3: Mal. 1–4 Jan. 4: Luke 1; John 1:1–14 Jan. 5: Matt. 1; Luke 2:1–38 Jan. 7: Matt. 4; John 1:15–51 Jan. 8: John 2–4 Jan. 9: Mark 2–3 [...]
With 50 million copies sold, not only is Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" the best-selling Christmas song of all time, it's also the best-selling single ever, according to Guinness World Records. Though it was written for a musical that eventually became the classic flick Holiday Inn, the song has a sad backstory too. It was written by Irving Berlin, a Russian-born [...]
Join Us In every direction we turn – whether in the headlines, within our local communities, our churches, or even within the intimate circles of our families – the call to prayer resounds loudly. It's a reminder that we, as a community of believers, need to stand united, [...]
