Idaho Conference has been dreaming big dreams for making a major impact for the Kingdom of God in our territory. In early 2022, the conference invited It Is Written to conduct a year of training and preparation followed by a conference-wide evangelistic series called Revelation Today: The Great ReSet. In preparation for the meetings, the [...]
God’s Closet, an outreach under Renew Spokane, recently celebrated its 13th year serving the Spokane community. God’s Closet collects new and gently used clothing to provide at Shop Day, an event held every three months where families can leave with several bags of clothing for just a $1 entry fee. Impact on the Community During [...]
Nine Northwest ministries have been recognized for their exceptional work and contribution to the community by Versacare Foundation, an independent foundation serving Seventh-day Adventist ministries and humanitarian causes in North America. This year, Versacare awarded 133 grants amounting to $2,493,872 in total, with nine of them awarded to northwest ministries amounting to $160,000. These grants [...]
Danya Nicketa and Mae Syverud, emerging Alaska Native leaders within Alaska Conference, traveled to Togiak in March to lead a workshop about loss and grief. Like many Native villages, Togiak, located in Southwest Alaska, has been hit hard with loss. Over the last few months, 33 deaths have occurred within this small, close-knit community. With Togiak’s [...]
While the Seventh-day Adventist Church was once a large group of multi-generational families attending church and doing community outreach, the membership numbers are decreasing, due in part to the lack of engagement with young adults. Between 1965 and 2022, approximately 17.6 million people left the Adventist Church.1 According to data from a 2014 statistics report2 [...]
In the back of the auditorium at Washington Conference’s Pathfinder Fair and Camporee, a young girl with her arms wide open ran up to a volunteer Pathfinder leader and wrapped her in a giant hug. The young girl had been part of one Pathfinder club previously and was now in a new club. She joyfully [...]
On April 8, 2023, Dan Linrud, Oregon Conference president, joined a group of around 60 young adults in Holden Convention Center for the second annual Dinner with Dan event. Hosted by Oregon Young Adult ministries, the night began with worship music and a message from one of our newest pastors, Jose Saint Phard, who began serving [...]
Follow the daily reading plan and you will read the entire Bible in a year. July 2: 2 Kings 1–4 July 3: 2 Kings 5–8 July 4: 2 Kings 9–11 July 5: 2 Kings 12–13; 2 Chronicles 24 July 6: 2 Kings 14; 2 Chronicles 25 July 7: Jonah 1–4; 2 Kings 15; 2 Chronicles [...]
The book of Revelation casts a beautiful vision for humanity’s ultimate reunion at Jesus’ Second Coming — a great gathering of people from every nation, tribe and language. It’s clear that, to God, humanity itself is one enormously diverse extension of His own family. His kids. National borders, languages and multi-generational scars have divided us and [...]
Have you ever played the “where were you” game? Where were you when the towers fell? Where were you when Mount St. Helens blew? Where were you when the Challenger exploded? Where were you when JFK was shot? Each question references a point in time when we all knew life would never be the same [...]
