For the second time in 10 months, members of the global Seventh-day Adventist Church's executive committee have voted to postpone the quinquennial session of the denomination, originally scheduled for late June 2020, due to challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two pastors were ordained to the gospel ministry in Upper Columbia Conference in December 2020 and January 2021. Andrew Abbott, lead pastor of St. Maries and Osburn Adventist churches and the Living Hope Adventist Company, was ordained Jan. 30, 2021, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Minner Labrador Jr., Upper Columbia Conference president, presented the ordination certificate [...]
With COVID-19 health regulations in place, Walla Walla University's ICantori choir has been unable to meet in person. Instead, choir members practice together virtually on Zoom videoconferencing three times a week, under the direction of Kraig Scott, WWU professor of music.
Golden Heart Christian School students and families collected nonperishable food in October 2020 to help the University of Alaska Fairbanks Police Department with a competition. The Alaska Peace Officers Association Farthest North Chapter have a lively competition every fall between departments to bring in the most food for the Fairbanks Community Food Bank. Golden Heart students decided [...]
By the end of January 2021, all 32 Oregon Conference schools will be meeting in person. “It’s not been easy,” says Gale Crosby, Oregon Conference vice president for education, “but God’s been leading us through the challenges every day.”
Each year at Cascade Christian Academy in Wenatchee, Washington, students and staff plan church service programs to share with their six constituent churches. With the various pandemic restrictions that have come to pass over the last eight months, however, these Education Sabbaths have taken on a different look. Thanks to technology, CCA has continued to “visit” [...]
As 2020 drew to a close, we at the Arlington (Washington) Church reflected on the challenges and opportunities God has allowed us to experience. Like so many small churches, the introduction of COVID-19 has raised many problems and, as we are finding, a few opportunities.
As 2020 drew to a close, we at the Arlington (Washington) Church reflected on the challenges and opportunities God has allowed us to experience. Like so many small churches, the introduction of COVID-19 has raised many problems and, as we are finding, a few opportunities.
At its regular meeting on Dec. 13, 2020, the Idaho Conference board of directors approved the sale of about 24 acres of Gem State Adventist Academy land in Caldwell, Idaho, to the Vallivue School District. The property is off Montana Avenue, north of the GSAA Campus and east of Vallivue Middle School.
Summit Northwest Ministries in Post Falls, Idaho, advertised their "Forged" men’s gathering at Camp MiVoden as “a retreat for men who don’t go to retreats.” That tagline was effective in bringing together close to 60 guys from all across the Northwest. No one was quite sure what to expect over the weekend of Sept. 26, [...]
