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EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVE JUST FOR KIDS
REGAINING OUR MEMORY NO FEAR IN LOVE BLESSING BOTTLES
GOD’S fascination with
remembering MAY/JUN
GEORGE R. KNIGHT
2021
VOL.116, Nº3
IMAGES of CREATION
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:6
CONTENTS
M AY/J U N E 2 0 2 1
At first, the symptoms are not obvious. Most people don’t even notice
anything is wrong. Suddenly life is different. What is this disease and how
can we learn from it? As we exercise our corporate memory, we aim to find
4 new energy and remember what really matters.
JAY WINTERMEYER
GOD’Sfascination with
remembering
Ministry in 2021 seems radically different than it did
a mere 18 months ago. What is the way forward? This
issue celebrates 115 years of Gleaner history and looks at
our early roots to gain insight into the challenges and
opportunities the Adventist Church faces today.
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AT FIRST, THE SYMPTOMS ARE NOT
OBVIOUS. YOU CAN STILL SPEAK AND
HOLD SIMPLE CONVERSATIONS. MOST
PEOPLE DON’T EVEN NOTICE ANYTHING
IS WRONG. THEN YOU’RE SITTING AT
A RED LIGHT, AND SUDDENLY YOU
CAN’T REMEMBER WHERE YOU ARE OR
EVEN HOW TO MAKE THE CAR MOVE
REGAINING FORWARD.
That’s how Alzheimer’s
OUR MEMORY
disease works. This
irreversible, progressive
brain disorder destroys your
memory and thinking skills
and, eventually, the ability to carry
out the simplest tasks.
According to the Centers
for Disease Control more than
5 million Americans 65 or
older suffer from this form
of dementia. The pain of
memory loss and cognition
not only affects the person
with the disease but entire
family groups of those who suffer
from it.
JAY WINTERMEYER In a similar pattern,
Gleaner editor our churches and personal
spiritual lives suffer dire
consequences when we lose
our corporate memory and a vital piece
of our faith dies.
The COVID-19 pandemic has
changed so many of the things about
life and ministry as we know it.
I’ve talked with pastors and church
leaders who feel unclear about the
way forward. These are uncertain
and unprecedented times for sure.
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At the same time, I feel we When we’re faced with a time life, in my family and even in
can learn an important lesson of uncertainty, we can look my church when I have seen
Gleaner (ISSN 0746-5874) is published
from Alzheimer’s patients to back at how our church began God working gives me hope and bimonthly for a total of 6 issues per year
illuminate our current path and see what is important. courage. Even remembering a by the North Pacific Union Conference of
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115 years of Gleaner ministry. conference correspondents may be
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in Gifford Pinchot National
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by Adam Cornwell,
of Vancouver, Washington.
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GOD’S fascination with remembering
GEORGE R. KNIGHT
GOD HAS A GENUINE INTEREST IN THE
HISTORY OF HIS PEOPLE. AND HE DESIRES
HIS FOLLOWERS TO HAVE THAT SAME
CONCERN. IT IS NO ACCIDENT THE FIRST
WORD IN THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT IS
“REMEMBER.” GOD WANTED HIS PEOPLE
NEVER TO FORGET HE WAS THEIR CREATOR.
SO HE GAVE THEM A WEEKLY REMINDER
(EXOD. 20:8–11).
7 MAY/JUNE 2021
B ut God was not only
Creator. He was also Redeemer.
So He provided daily and
yearly reminders of the
importance of the blood of the
lamb “that makes atonement”
(Lev. 17:11). Regarding the
blood of the Passover lamb, for
example, during the annual
proclaim the Lord’s death
until he comes” (1 Cor. 11:26).
Interestingly enough, that
statement highlights the fact
that remembering often has
two edges. In the communion
event, one points backward to
the death of Jesus while the
other points forward to the
Second Advent.
Remembering God’s leading
in the past is important for our
future. Just think, for example,
how different the history of
Israel would have been if the
proclaim Jesus as “the Lamb of
God, who takes away the sin
of the world” (John 1:29). But
the Jews, having forgotten the
central symbolic lesson in their
history (the blood of the lamb),
found the death of Christ to be
a “stumbling block” (1 Cor. 1:23).
Their neglect of another
historical lesson was no less
consequential. Namely, that
Jewish people had focused less the covenant through Abraham
celebration of the feast children
on Messiah as a conquering was to lead Israel to become
were to ask, “What do you
king and more on the daily a blessing to “all” nations. In
mean by this service?” And
temple lesson and the annual spite of the fact that Isaiah
the elders were to recount the
Passover illustration related and others sought to drive
saving effect of the blood of
to the blood of the lamb. God, that lesson home, by the time
the lamb (Exod. 12:26, 27). The
through John the Baptist, tried of Christ Israel had come to
Old Testament is filled with
to redirect their minds when see their Lord as the God of
illustrations of God’s interest in
He inspired the prophet to the Jews, while the gentiles
His people remembering their
history. were seen as unclean. That
misreading of history led to a
That fascination with the tragedy that could have been
remembrance of history flows avoided.
right into the New Testament.
Perhaps the most important is God’s emphasis on His
the periodic commemoration people remembering their
of the Last Supper. Paul wrote
that “as often as you eat this
bread and drink the cup, you
Isaac and Adelia Van Horn arrived in the Walla Walla
1874 Valley as the Northwest’s first Adventist missionary
couple. In 1876 they and their assistant, Alonzo T.
Jones, shifted their efforts to the Willamette Valley,
making their home in Salem.
Northwestern Adventism Timeline
1861 1874 Isaac Van Horn organized the first Adventist church in the
The Thomas and Augusta Moorhouse family
Northwest in Walla Walla, Washington Territory. Other early
traveled over the Oregon Trail from Iowa to
churches included Milton, Oregon (1876); Dayton, Washington
the Walla Walla Valley. Augusta was the first
Territory (1876); Salem, Oregon (1877); Beaverton, Oregon
Adventist in the Pacific Northwest.
(1878); Damascus, Oregon (1879); East Portland, Oregon
(1882); Farmington, Washington Territory (1883); and Coquille,
Oregon (1883).
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GOD’S
fascination with
remembering
history hasn’t changed. Nor
has its importance. One only
has to think of the oft-quoted
statement in Life Sketches
that “in reviewing our past
history, having traveled over
every step of advance to our
In short, knowing and recalling Adventist history is important as His
present standing, I can say, Advent people continue to journey toward the “blessed hope” (Titus 2:13).
Praise God! As I see what the
Lord has wrought, I am filled
with astonishment, and with Adventism forgets its
confidence in Christ as leader. prophetic heritage at its
We have nothing to fear for the peril since the messages of
future, except as we shall forget Revelation 14 have shaped in
the way the Lord has led us, and every way the denomination’s
His teaching in our past history” third angel, which set the stage development and present
(p. 196). In short, knowing and for the purpose and mission of purpose and mission. One
recalling Adventist history is that group of ex-Millerites who only has to think of Rev. 14:6,
important as His Advent people formally became Seventh-day which notes that God’s last day
continue to journey toward the Adventists in the early 1860s. message would go “to every
“blessed hope” (Titus 2:13). “Here is the patience of the nation and tribe and tongue
And central to Adventist saints,” we read in the third and people” to grasp why the
history are the messages of message, “here are they that budding denomination sent its
the three angels of Rev. 4:6–12: keep the commandments of first official foreign missionary
a series of prophetic events God, and the faith of Jesus” in 1874. That was a small start,
that began in the 1830s with (KJV). And right after those but today the Seventh-day
William Miller preaching the three progressive messages we Adventist Church is the most
return of Christ and climaxes find Jesus coming in the clouds widespread, unified Protestant
with the proclamation of the of heaven (Rev. 14:14, 15). It is denomination in history.
no wonder that Ellen White
In addition, the mission
pointed to the cry of the third
imperative of Revelation
angel as the last message to
14’s angels has led to the
be given to the world before
development of each aspect
Earth’s end. Those three
messages need to be at the core
of Adventist remembering and
understanding of God’s leading
in the denomination’s history.
1885 Denominational leaders sent J.J. Smith to work in
the Boise area and southern Idaho Territory; he
1877
soon died of peritonitis. Daniel Fero followed from
Pennsylvania and organized churches in Boise City
The North Pacific Conference was organized
to coordinate the denomination’s efforts in
and Franklin in 1886.
1886
The small conferences of the North Pacific
the Pacific Northwest. In 1880, it launched the Conference (301 members) and Upper
Upper Columbia Conference to better promote Columbia Conference (240 members)
Adventism east of the Cascade Mountains. started the denomination’s fourth and fifth
post-elementary schools — North Pacific
The first attempt by Adventists to evangelize
1880 the Puget Sound took place by book salesman
A.W. Benson. By 1886, a church had been
Academy in Portland and Milton Academy
in Milton, Oregon. Both schools closed
in the early 1890s. Walla Walla College
established in Seattle, followed by one in opened in 1892.
Tacoma the next year.
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GOD’S
fascination with
remembering
Remembering has been
central to God’s people from
Genesis until today. When
of the denomination’s present religious people forget their
outreach. Thus in the late history they lose their
1840s James White began a way. Churches who forget
publishing work to help spread their past lose purpose and
the message of Revelation’s relevance. “We have nothing
angels. And the 1860s and 1901 to fear” if we remember
witnessed the development God’s leading.
and refinement of church
organization to facilitate world
mission. The 1860s also saw the
initiation of Adventism’s health George R. Knight
message and medical work Andrews University professor
since people can understand emeritus of church history,
and spread the gospel more has written many books on
efficiently if their bodies Adventism’s past, including A
and minds are in as healthy Brief History of Seventh-day
condition as possible. And Adventists.
then there was the beginning
of Seventh-day Adventist
education in Battle Creek in *ALL BIBLE REFERENCES
ARE FROM THE RSV
the 1870s to train individuals UNLESS NOTED
OTHERWISE.
to take the three messages to
Earth’s remotest bounds.
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1893 The North Pacific Conference changed its name
to the Western Oregon Conference. That same
Lewis Belknap, a doctor, established a sanitarium year it also spawned the Western Washington
in Portland. During the first decade of the 20th
century, small sanitariums were operated by
1902 Conference, with headquarters in the Seattle area
to better serve the western portions of the state.
1888
Adventists in Spokane Falls, College Place, Seattle,
General Conference leaders sent Tacoma, Bellingham, Yakima, Port Townsend, Boise,
O.A. Johnson (1888) and Daniel Missoula, Salem and Cottage Grove. Most closed
Fero (1889) to Montana Territory either before or during the Great Depression.
to conduct evangelistic meetings
during the summer months. The Following her return from Australia, Ellen White made a trip to the
next year, J.W. Watt of Missouri
was asked to permanently locate
1901 Pacific Northwest. She visited the Upper Columbia Conference
camp meeting in Waitsburg, Walla Walla College and Sanitarium,
in the region, where he started Portland Sanitarium, and the North Pacific Conference camp
churches in Livingston (1890) and meeting. She had made earlier trips to the Northwest in 1878 (for
Bozeman (1891). the Northwest’s first camp meeting in Salem), 1880 and 1884.
10 MAY/JUNE 2021115 YE ARS OF MINISTRY
I
like
icebergs
melted
TERRIE DOPP AAMODT
t was a pleasant but seasickness, and it was less
breezy June day on San frightening to watch the waves
Francisco Bay. The steamer than to lie below imagining
Oregon wove through clusters what they looked like. She
of working vessels and pleasure later recalled, “… The deep …
craft, pointing toward the is terrible in its wrath. … I
center of the unbridged could see … God’s power in
Golden Gate. There the voyage the movements of the restless
changed: The breeze freshened waters … which tossed the
into a howling northerly wind. waves up on high as if in
The ship creaked and rolled convulsions of agony.”1
as it turned to starboard and What prompted Ellen White
headed north, slamming into to embark on this dangerous
the heavy oncoming waves, voyage in 1878? She was 50
sending sheets of water over years old, and constant stress
the few hardy souls shivering had worn down her always-
on deck. frail health. A trip of such
Soon only a dignified, magnitude wasn’t an easy
middle-aged woman remained. undertaking for a sick woman.
Her calm presence may have However, she and her husband,
ELLEN WHITE JOURNEYED TO THE NORTHWEST THREE TIMES. EACH TIME convinced the crew she could James, had agreed that if her
SHE SPENT TIME PREACHING AT CAMP MEETINGS IN THE REGION. brave any storm. Actually, health stabilized, she should
staying above deck reduced make this trip to Oregon to
Western Oregon Conference spawned the Southern
Oregon Conference in 1910 to better serve the
territory of southwestern Oregon. Because of the
1932
The Upper Columbia Conference
1907 spawned the Southern Idaho
Conference, with headquarters
economic challenges during the Great Depression,
the two conferences reunited in 1932.
in Boise to better serve the
territory of southern Idaho and
eastern Oregon. Because of the influence of Ellen White’s writings
and an education reform movement at Battle
1951
Creek College, the number of church-operated The Harris family donated their thriving business
elementary schools rose from 18 to more than (Harris Pine Mills) in Pendleton, Oregon, to the Adventist
200 by the turn of the century. This education Church. This company operated many branch factories
1920s emphasis also resulted in every conference in
the Northwest except Alaska establishing a
near Adventist schools, which provided work for
students. Harris Pine Mills closed in 1986.
secondary boarding school by the early 1920s.
11 MAY/JUNE 2021like
icebergs melted call out the local ministers for
their shortcomings. At one
point she summoned conference
help the new churches there. leaders Isaac Van Horn and
When she felt strong enough Alonzo T. Jones into her tent
for the journey, she had and read them the riot act.
boarded the ship headed to Hundreds of believers and Why couldn’t she be more,
Portland. curiosity-seekers flocked to the well, ladylike? In Ellen White’s
As darkness overtook the site. This camp meeting was camp meeting tent, Elder Van
ship, the captain feared for her a deeply spiritual experience Horn and Elder Jones learned
safety and guided her to one for Northwest Adventists, a spiritual lesson they might
of the deserted public rooms and White, aided by the never have gained elsewhere.
Holy Spirit, was the chief “It was a weeping, and
contributor. If she had lived an
These men who had stood like icebergs melted easier, less stressful life, the
confessing time,” White noted
later. “There was a humbling of
under the beams of the Son of righteousness. intensity of her inspiration
would not have been the same.
soul before God.”4 These were
blunt tactics for a guest speaker
Two years later, in the to wield, particularly for a
where a bed was prepared for summer of 1880, Ellen White woman speaking to churchmen.
her. It was Monday evening. returned to the Northwest.
Seasickness overcame her as it After this needed but
The voyage was uneventful; difficult episode of spiritual
had the others, and she stayed this time the storms occurred
put until the ship moved into training in Milton, Salem
on dry land. The work had may have looked hopeful by
the calm haven of the Columbia grown impressively since her
River on Thursday morning. comparison. This time the
last visit — there were two camp meeting met right in
As White recovered during camp meetings to visit — but town, at Marion Square. One
the last few miles to Portland, the problems were bigger too. day White lectured the packed
she realized that both storm While White had spent her tent audience for two hours
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and seasickness had delivered 1878 visit spiritually nourishing on the subject of temperance.
a spiritual lesson: “God had the fledgling church members More temperance sermons
spoken to my heart in the in Salem, in 1880 she zeroed in followed at the packed,
storm and in the waves and in on church leaders. 700-seat Methodist church
the calm following. And shall Her first stop was the Milton nearby. White reported to
we not worship Him?”2 camp meeting. “I think there James that one Methodist
White traveled on to Salem never was a place where my told an Adventist member
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by train to attend the first testimony was needed more “he regretted Mrs. White
Adventist camp meeting in than in this region of country,” was not a staunch Methodist,
the Pacific Northwest. It was she noted. “They seem to be for they would make her a
pitched in a grove just outside deeply affected with what they bishop at once; she could do
of town beside the railroad. hear.”3 She did not hesitate to justice to the office.”5 At the
Methodists’ request, she stayed
an additional week.
2020 The North Pacific Union Conference
has significantly less population to
Alaska became a conference. The reach (15.5 million) than any other
1984 first Adventist missionaries had
arrived in 1901.
union in the North American Division,
but it has a considerably better
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member to population ratio (1 to 151)
than the other unions. The Upper
Pacific Press Publishing
Columbia Conference has the best
Assocation — started by the church
member-to-population ratio (1 to 77)
in 1874 to serve the American
of the Northwestern conferences.
West — moved its headquarters and
printing operations to Nampa, Idaho.
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12 MAY/JUNE 2021the visitors how they should Were certain things easier
preach; White recalled that for White? Singled out as
she and her companions a visible recipient of God’s
“preached the word of the blessing, did her spiritual gifts
Lord without any reference make her more certain of the
to their suggestions.”6 Milton right path? How do believers
Would those guest sermons Adventists yelped that White reported, “Then the with ordinary levels of spiritual
have been as compelling if they were being clubbed. Spirit of God like a tidal wave giftedness find their way?
she had not just spent hours The California delegation swept over the congregation. … Wouldn’t it be nice to know? So
unraveling difficulties with proceeded, calling church These men who had stood often it seems like groping in
church members in Milton? leaders forward in public, like icebergs melted under the dark.
Something about her spiritual laboring with them and praying the beams of the Son of When we watch Ellen White
intensity made her message for them. Slowly, painfully, righteousness. … Confessions function in her own world,
stick. This visit to Salem had the atmosphere became were made with weeping and we see the source of her own
a larger public dimension than more positive. As the Milton deep feeling. … It seemed like sense of certainty was her
the first one, and there was a camp meeting closed, church the movement of 1844. I have intense, daily connection to
larger public affirmation of her members were once again ready not been in a meeting of this Jesus Christ. It was a complete
ministry. to put their spiritual energies to kind for many years. After the commitment, undertaken in
good use. hard fought battle the victory 1878 at the peril of her own life
As early Adventists were
learning, the path to peace and Ellen White was exhausted. was most precious. We all wept and, in 1884, risking her health.
unity was not easy. White’s As she and her companions like children.”7 Today, we might not be able
third and final visit to the headed for another camp What a transformation! to pray like Peter, preach like
Northwest in 1884 was the meeting in Portland to face The 1884 journey began in Paul, electrify a congregation
most difficult of all. James had similar problems, she developed severe conflict. Failure to like John Wesley or prophesy
died in 1881, and Ellen threw a burning fever and was unable resolve it would have set back like Ellen White, but each of
herself into solving all kinds to leave her tent for four the church in the Northwest us can make a commitment
of church problems. But the days. Finally, early on Friday for decades. This difficult, to Jesus Christ, without
church in the Pacific Northwest morning, White was ready to stressful, wrenching situation reservation.
was a problem like no other. speak. She told the assembled developed into an intensely This key to this complete
Leaders had become harsh members they would all wait spiritual experience. In one commitment is to give up — give
and critical, and they failed until the leading men in that way it resembled White’s first up our pride, our insistence on
to inspire. The congregations region took a position that God trip in 1878; it began in a storm, our own way, our deep desire
had stagnated; certainly could approve, so His Spirit but out of suffering grew an to stumble around alone in the
no one else would be drawn could enter the meeting. “I had intense blessing. The dramatic dark. It happened in Salem,
to this quarreling bunch. two front seats cleared,” she results — the once-stagnant in Portland, in Milton and in
Northwesterners, caught up recalled later, “and asked those church membership in the Walla Walla over a hundred
in their troubles, needed fresh who were backslidden from Pacific Northwest tripled in years ago, and it happened in
eyes. So six ministers from God and those who had never the next few years — occurred the Great Awakening before
California accompanied Ellen started to serve the Lord to because church members who that and at Pentecost before
White on this crucial mission. come forward. They began to cared, with Ellen White at the that. It can still happen.
come.” What happened next forefront, humbled themselves
The fireworks began in was unbelievable. before God.
Milton. Local church members
met the visitors and instructed Terrie Dopp Aamodt
Walla Walla University
history professor
1. ELLEN WHITE, TESTIMONIES FOR
THE CHURCH, VOL. 4 (MOUNTAIN VIEW,
CALIFORNIA: PACIFIC PRESS, 1948), P. 287.
2. IBID., P. 289.
3. WHITE, “LETTER 29, TO J.S. WHITE” (MAY
29, 1880).
4. IBID.
5. WHITE, “LETTER 33A, TO J.S. WHITE”
(JUNE 23, 1880).
6. WHITE, “LETTER 19, TO BR. AND SR. URIAH
SMITH” (JUNE 15, 1884).
7. WHITE, “LETTER 20, TO URIAH SMITH”
(JUNE 27, 1884).
13 MAY/JUNE 2021DESIREE LOCKWOOD
Gleaner managing editor
Zesty
Baked
Eggs
14 MAY/JUNE 2021They say everyone has their
own love language — their INGREDIENTS:
1/3 cup mayo
own special way of showing 1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
y
1/4 teaspoon paprika
their love and affection. In 1/4 teaspoon Vegemite
1 tablespoon chives
my family, food seems to be 1/2 cup milk
1 cup cheddar cheese
closely knit with love and 8 eggs
INSTRUCTIONS:
care.
1. In saucepan, combine the first six ingredients, and
My family has a few recipes we save for cook on the lowest setting.
special occasions. Each time they’re brought 2. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly until smooth.
3. Add cheese and cook over low heat, stirring until
to the table, these cherised dishes warm our cheese is melted.
hearts and make special memories. 4. Pour a little of the sauce into a 9-by-12 baking dish,
just enough to cover the bottom of the dish.
One of these recipes is zesty baked
5. Break eggs into sauce.
eggs. This dish makes an appearance during 6. Top with remaining sauce.
holidays, on family trips or sometimes even on 7. Bake at 425 degrees for 17–20 minutes.
Sunday mornings.
I love this recipe and recently asked my
mom where it came from. I discovered this
NO TE S
family recipe originally came from the Walla
Try adding chopped
Walla College (now WWU) cafeteria back
meatless
when my mom attended as an education and
home economics major. She enjoyed this dish
breakfast sausage or
so much she was able to convince one of the bacon (such as Strip
cooks to share the recipe with her. The recipe ples)
originally served 100! Mom broke it down and into the sauce.
fine-tuned things so it would work for a family
of four.
Thank you, Walla Walla College
cafeteria, for introducing to zesty baked eggs
to our family.
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la Upper Columbia Conference encontró participan. Central) planifican, ministran y producen
maneras creativas de reagruparse. NiñosUCC es uno de los programas HispanosUCC para la gloria de Dios.
Ancianos de iglesia, maestros de bíblia, virtuales semanales más recientes. Uno También apreciamos profundamente a los
pastores locales, miembros de iglesia, de los líderes es el pastor Saul Domínguez. hermanos y amigos que sintonizan a diario
hombres y mujeres, jóvenes y niños, Él, junto con su esposa, Katie, identificó y le proporcionan a esta iglesia virtual, un
unieron sus talentos para plantar una la necesidad de desarrollar un programa propósito de existir y seguir predicando las
iglesia virtual. El plan fue transmitir infantil virtual buenas nuevas de Jesucristo.
oportunidades para seguir adorando en multicultural.
español en Facebook y YouTube. Rápidamente CÉSAR Y CAROLANN DE LEÓN
Las responsabilidades fueron se pusieron en North Pacific Union Hispanic
delegadas y compartidas entre el equipo contacto con ministries
pastoral local con el fin de proporcionar otros pastores PASTOR SAÚL DOMÍNGUEZ
servicios de adoración virtuales. locales que se y La Oficina del Ministerio
Rápidamente se creo una programación unieron en la Hispanos de Upper Columbia
completa: planificación y Conference
Lunes a viernes: Devocionales a las 7 a.m. lanzamiento de
este ministerio.
Lunes: “Hogares Sanos, Iglesias Además,
Poderosas” muchos de
Martes: “La Revelación de Cristo” los líderes del
Miércoles: Centros Virtuales de Oración ministerio
y Adoración infantil en las
iglesias locales
Jueves: Ministerio Del Hombre “Según el se unieron para apoyar en la grabación de
corazón de Dios” varios segmentos del programa.
Viernes: Ministerio y Testimonios de los Los dos títeres anfitriones, Poncho y
Grupos Pequeños: “Mi Casa y Yo” Laila, dan la bienvenida a los espectadores
Sábado: “Iglesia en adoración — “Didáctica semanalmente. Los niños adoran a través
Bíblica y Escuela Sabática” de alabanzas, una historia bíblica dinámica,
» 5 p.m. Para los Niños — “NiñosUCC” y luego terminan con un proyecto artesanal
» 7 p.m. Ministerio de la Mujer. interactivo dirigido por los anfitriones. Los
padres también participan enviando fotos
A demás, cada tres meses se y vídeos que se integran en sus segmentos
desarrollan “Semanas de Evangelismo pregrabados semanales.
y Énfasis Espiritual” con múltiples Alabamos a Dios por todos nuestros
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CHURCH
HispanosUCC
Launches Virtual
Children’s Ministry More online at
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worship services at both 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. statistics show 89,000 individuals are
and minister to the growing challenges the clicking on HispanosUCC and 57,000 are
following virtual ministries were quickly actively participating.
developed. The services include: NiñosUCC, one of the newest weekly
Daily: 7 a.m. devotionals; virtual programs, began on Feb. 6, after
Mondays: “Healthy Homes, Powerful much prayer, teamwork and a deep desire
Churches”; to see children discipled into knowing
Tuesdays: “A Revelation of Jesus”; and loving Jesus Christ as their lifelong
Wednesdays: Multiple worship and Friend and Companion. One of the leaders
prayer meetings; is Saul Dominguez, who is pastor of the
Thursdays: Ministry to men: “According Hermiston, Pendleton and Rekindle
to the Heart of God”; District. He, along with his wife, Katie,
Fridays: Small group ministries: “Me and identified the need to develop a virtual,
My House”; multicultural children’s program with the
Saturdays: Church at worship, biblical
help of other local pastors.
didactics and Sabbath School;
The two host puppets, Poncho and
» 5 p.m. For children — “NiñosUCC”;
» 7 p.m. Women’s ministries. Laila, welcome the viewing children
weekly. The kids worship through songs,
a dynamic Bible story and an interactive
craft project led by the hosts. Viewers
participate by sending in pictures and
FACED WITH THE challenges all videos that are integrated into their weekly
churches experienced when worship prerecorded segments.
services were shut down in April 2020, We praise God for all of our friends,
the Upper Columbia Conference Hispanic brethren, leaders and pastors, who under the
department found creative ways to regroup coordination of Cristian Barrera — who also
as church elders, Bible teachers, local pastors the Wapato, Granger and Central
pastors, church members, men and women, Valley churches — plan, minister and produce
young adults, and children to create a HispanosUCC for the glory of God. We also
virtual church plant, HispanosUCC. This deeply appreciate the brethren and friends
novel church produces services in Spanish who tune in daily and give this virtual
on Facebook and YouTube twice a day, church a reason to exist and to continue
Monday through Saturday, with the goal sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.
of providing worship opportunities in the SAUL DOMINGUEZ
midst of the challenges, social isolation, Upper Columbia Conference Hispanic
pain, crises and loss. In addition to the daily and weekly ministries and pastor
Virtual worship responsibilities were programming, quarterly evangelism/
CÉSAR AND CAROLANN DE LEÓN
delegated and shared among the local spiritual emphasis weeks featuring
NPUC Hispanic ministries
pastoral team in order to offer virtual multiple pastors and speakers. Program
17 MAY/JUNE 2021ALASKA NEWS
CONFERENCE YOUTH
Winter Fellowship
Helps at Camp
Tukuskoya Sharing
His Word
‘Bit’ by ‘Bit’
AFTER MANY MONTHS of wildlife being the sole company for quiet
cabins by Flat Lake, human guests arrived at Camp Tukuskoya,
located north of Anchorage. They built a bonfire by the lake
and a fire in the lodge fireplace. Heat and music filled the
lodge. Children ice skated, sledded and roasted hot dogs, while PLANNING A SCHOOL PROGRAM IS
the social committee served hot drinks to guests from across
Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley. CHALLENGING ENOUGH WITHOUT HAVING
About 15 people from five families camped in the lodge. TO WORRY ABOUT SOCIAL DISTANCING,
Some of them got up early to circumnavigate the lake by dog
sled or heavily tractioned running shoes before tackling camp MASK WEARING, SANITIZING AND
improvements. One group piled brush for the wood chipper to
cover muddy areas this spring. Another framed the partition for SURVIVING A PANDEMIC.
our newest cabin, Eagle/Polar Bear. A third group completed the Like it or not, COVID-19 was here, so
wallboard installation and began painting living quarters for the Dillingham Adventist School needed to
first one-man mission trip camp ranger this summer. find alternate ways of sharing with family
Join Alaska Conference in prayer as they design financially members, friends and the community.
and logistically viable ministry opportunities for the summer of The internet and social media are
A volunteer parks
their plane next to the 2021. Now more than ever, the Camp Tuk staff are grateful to effective tools that allow fast and easy ways
makeshift ice rink. provide a setting where campers can experience Christ in His to communicate with several individuals
great outdoors. in a well-organized manner. For this small
JERILYN BURTCH school, using any platform outside of
Camp Tukuskoya board member Facebook was something out of the ordinary.
Now DAS had to do what most everyone was
doing: learning how to make online schooling
work efficiently. As scary and intimidating
as this task appeared, it was also a perfect
opportunity for the teacher and students to
learn something new using project-based
learning (PBL).
According to the Autodesk Foundation,
one of the advantages to using PBL is
significant improvements in classroom
engagement. The platform also gives
teachers the opportunity to build stronger
relationships with students as they work
together through the learning process.
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NWADVENT.ST/116-3-AK-61 to-face classroom learning, these benefits
seemed especially appealing. This wonderful
instructional method allowed DAS students
18 MAY/JUNE 2021CHURCH
EDUCATION
STUDENTS
ENJOY P.E.,
By God’s grace, DAS’s new outreach will
help fulfill the Great Commission of Matthew
ALASKA-STYLE
28, as it is the school’s mantra. Through the GOLDEN HEART CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
Holy Spirit’s working, the school will use in Fairbanks has a unique approach to
the tool God kids getting to exercise as part of their
Declan Baumgartner, Dillingham has blessed us school curriculum. Over the past few
Adventist School sixth grader, ensures with to present weeks, teachers lined up equipment so
the necessary equipment is connected
to the computer.
“Jewels for His students can ski during school hours
Kingdom.” on a neighboring groomed ski trail.
to collaborate as they “learned by doing.” The Older students blaze the
Narrowing down what medium to use internet and trail, while the younger and less-
highlighted the Wi-Fi challenges of living social media are experienced skiers follow. If a novice
in the Bristol Bay area. For those who tools with the skier falls or needs help, a more
have high-speed Wi-Fi service, YouTube ability to reach experienced student eagerly gets
and Instagram provide the best mediums Kadence Bowers, fourth every person them back on their feet.
for sharing. However, in Dillingham the grader, and Erica Shade, even to the Physical education at GHCS is the
church’s local radio station was the best ninth grader, work to “uttermost parts last class of the day on Tuesday and
position and focus the
platform. camera for shooting. of the earth.” Thursday. Head teacher Cindy Dasher
The technology-rich era we live in Please keep DAS expanded the class to an hour to allow
makes connecting with family, friends and in your prayers as the student body continues more time to get equipment readied
the community easy. However, it was PBL to learn and share His Word, bit by bit. and clothing piled on to face the cold
that allowed DAS students to collaborate, winter afternoons before heading out
problem-solve, and enhance their creativity SUEAL CUNNINGHAM to the ski trail. Teachers and students
and critical thinking. Most importantly, Dillingham Adventist School head teacher alike look forward to the fun of ski
technology is allowing the school a larger days.
platform to proclaim the gospel message More online at Nature has provided the perfect
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mountains, ski trails and wildlife.
Squirrels scamper up the trees while
LEADERS GROWING LEADERS ravens soar above. One day, skiers
saw an eagle flew (or at least what
they thought was an eagle) fly high
overhead, which is a rare sighting in
winter in Fairbanks.
What a blessing to exercise
and enjoy PE outdoors! Not only is it
educational to learn to ski, but this
provides excellent exercise for the
students and perhaps encourages a
lifelong love of skiing and enjoying
God’s beautiful creation.
ANIKA BERGERON, BECCA BADOR AND
Training Future Leaders To Teach The Gospel In Alaska IRELAND SHERLOCK
Golden Heart Christian School
NPUC ANNUAL OFFERING fifth graders
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19 MAY/JUNE 2021IDAHO NEWS
CONFERENCE EDUCATION
Gem State Joins Idaho
Interscholastic Sports
THE ATHLETIC PROGRAM HAS ALWAYS BEEN STRONG AT GEM
STATE ADVENTIST ACADEMY IN CALDWELL, AND BASKETBALL HAS
BEEN A BIG PART OF THAT. THROUGH THE YEARS, THE GEM STATE
JAGUARS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN VARIOUS INTERSCHOLASTIC
GROUPS, BUT IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 10 YEARS SINCE THEY WERE A
MEMBER TEAM OF THE STATE LEAGUE.
During in the 2019–2020 Oregon’s Portland Adventist All-star Caleb Smith spends
school year, Jeremy Perkins, Academy. time on the basketball court.
GSAA athletic director, Amid the pandemic,
petitioned the state athletic questions remained about what
association for readmittance. a basketball season would the beginning of the school
Once approved, Perkins look like. The association year, Becker made it his goal to
petitioned to consider making developed a set of guidelines obtain and learn the equipment
allowances for Sabbath. This and requirements to allow the needed for livestreaming
entire process of petitions, athletes to play with the hope events, thus bringing GSAA
presentations and consideration everyone could be kept safe and to the community when the
Jeremy Perkins,
GSAA athletic
took almost a year. In the healthy. community could not come to
director, petitioned end, the league granted both One of the requirements campus.
to rejoin the Idaho petitions, thanks to Perkins’ was no fans at the games. The season proceeded
athletic association ongoing efforts as well as Parents and friends made successfully. By the end, GSAA
for readmittance
and Sabbath the officials being familiar the best of it, thanks to one boys ranked high enough to be
accommodations. with the Sabbath precedent of GSAA’s very supportive invited to the district playoffs.
and accommodations set by volunteers, Harold Becker. At As promised, the games in
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NEWS // CONFERENCE
EDUCATION
Caleb Smith, GSAA
senior, was selected
to play in the all-
conference and all-
star games.
SUPERINTENDENT REJOINS
THE CLASSROOM
which GSAA were to play were scheduled A SERIES OF CIRCUMSTANCES early into the new school year left
outside of the Sabbath hours. Boise Valley Adventist School without a middle school teacher, and
The boys’ team advanced to play for hiring so late in the season proved difficult. After a fervent but futile
third place. Although in the end they effort, the Idaho Conference superintendent, Patrick Frey, returned to
lost, GSAA students, staff and families the classroom to lend a hand. This is the first time since he’s been the
were proud of the athleticism and, more superintendent that he had to step back into the classroom as a teacher,
importantly, sportsmanship of the players. a role he held for 30 years.
In addition, senior Caleb Smith was chosen “My first day at school, students had to show me where everything
to play on the all-conference team and, was and what had been taught up to that point,” Frey recalls. “The first
from there, selected to play in the senior week was a wild time, and I was flying by the seat of my pants. However,
all-star game. Again, the Sabbath hours I was blessed by a really great group of students that were kind and
were taken into consideration when patient with me as I learned.”
scheduling practices and games. Frey quickly embraced the
“Sports provide such great classroom experience and dove into
opportunities to learn life lessons,” explains the curriculum. Staff admired his
Perkins. “Developing the character to willingness to reacquaint himself with
pick up when you fall and deal with ups teaching in today’s world after an
and downs is something that will serve eight-year absence. They noted his
whether on the basketball court or on the energy rivaled that of any child, and
job. Teamwork is another important skill he had a great ability to relate with the
for many areas of life.” students. Principal Ken Utt notes, “He
As for sportsmanship, it is a priority, has done a fantastic job of teaching
particularly as GSAA’s teams have and building student morale.” In
opportunity to witness while interacting addition, Frey did an admirable job of
with other schools. “And,” says Perkins, continuing his superintendent duties
“this starts with the coach. The coach has while teaching full time.
to model it.” Frey notes that one adjustment
GSAA participates in multiple has been greeting the principal as
sports in addition to basketball, including “boss” and having the principal greet
volleyball, cross-country, baseball and golf. Idaho Conference education
him the same in return depending on
GSAA’s mission is “Engaging in superintendent Patrick Frey has which hat he’s wearing at the time. He
Service, Training for Leadership, Preparing returned to the classroom temporarily. hopes his efforts are helping to make
for Eternity.” The athletic program is one of a difference in the school and in the
the many ways staff and students strive to lives of his students. “I feel very blessed to be in the classroom this year,”
fulfill that mission. he says. “It has been a great experience and has reminded me of all the
hard work dedicated teachers do every day.”
MARTA STONE
GSAA teacher and campus communications MELANIE LAWSON
assistant Boise Valley Adventist School teacher
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21 MAY/JUNE 2021MONTANA NEWS
CONFERENCE
YOUTH
Camp Paxson Offers
Memories and Jesus He left with thoughts of water skiing,
water toys, archery — a week of learning
THE LAST MORNING OF CAMP PAXSON HAD and fun. Most importantly though, he left
ARRIVED, AND THE TYPICAL CRAZINESS OF knowing Jesus in a way he hadn’t before.
THAT LAST DAY AT CAMP WAS IN PROGRESS. Camp Paxson has been and will
continue to be a blessing. Campers
BREAKFAST WAS OVER, AND THEN BEGAN will always take home two of the best
THE MAD RUSH TO GET ALL OF THE CAMPERS things Adventist summer camps have to
READY TO HEAD HOME. offer — memories and Jesus.
The hour had arrived, and it
was time to load the bus. Things
were going as per usual — counting
and recounting campers, making
sure all of those campers had all of
their gear and, of course, offering
goodbyes. Those were always hard.
That’s when word began to spread
that one of the campers was trying
to take a bat home — not of the
baseball variety but of the rat-with-
wings variety common around
Camp Paxon.
Batboy was one of Casey’s kids,
a group of kids that Casey Higgins,
pastor, and his Helena Church
would sponsor each year. For many of these
kids, the week at Camp Paxson was one of
the best weeks of their lives.
Batboy was soon receiving a pat-down
from the bus driver, Ray Wheeling. Sure
enough, Batboy had hidden a bat under
his clothing. To be sure, he was highly
disappointed he wasn’t leaving camp
with a bat, but he was still leaving with
something. He left with memories of Camp
Paxson. He left with friends he had met.
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22 MAY/JUNE 2021CHURCH
NORTON ACCEPTS CALL AS
MONTANA PRESIDENT
KEN NORTON HAS ACCEPTED the Montana Conference’s invitation to serve
as the next conference president. This comes after the departure of Elden
Ramirez to the North American Division. Norton and his wife, Julie, are moving
from Guam, where Ken has served as the president of the Guam-Micronesia
Mission since 2016.
Norton has a rich ministry history both in pastoral
ministry and education. While president of the Guam-
Micronesia Mission, he oversaw a mission field that sees
numerous missionaries each year, many of them student
teachers serving the mission’s more than 10 schools.
He has a passion for church planting and evangelism,
having served as Florida Conference church planting
director and as president/director of the Lay Institute for
Evangelism. Ken and Julie Norton
His more than 12 years of pastor ministry experience has included serving
on the pastoral team of the Collegedale Adventist Church on the campus of
Southern Adventist University in Tennessee. He also served as an adjunct
professor at SAU.
“We believe God led us to choose Elder Norton and God has led him to
accept our invitation to serve in Montana,” says John Freedman, North Pacific
Union president. “It will be God, in answer to prayer, who will make him a
successful leader.”
ANTHONY WHITE
North Pacific Union Conference
associate communication director
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EDUCATION
STUDENTS BECOME
TOOTHPICK ENGINEERS
JIM JENKINS WHAT CAN YOU MAKE WITH 750 or fewer toothpicks and wood glue? This year
Camp Paxson director all nine students in grades one to seven at Trout Creek Adventist School built
toothpick bridges that spanned 12 inches and was 4 inches wide.
An idea bridge was presented to the students, then they started creating
their own designs. The two students in grades one and two worked together to
create a bridge, and the rest of the students worked independently.
Each bridge was named and the engineer also predicted how much weight
they thought their bridge would hold. Last school year none of the bridges built
held more than 200 pounds, so this year the students aimed to beat last year’s
record. Two students succeeded in reaching beyond 200 pounds, and all the
bridges holding more than 100 pounds.
This project takes a lot of perseverance and precision. The contest was
held at the local grange hall, and the crowd was loud and enthusiastic for every
bridge builder. The local newspaper front-page story of the event generated a lot
of attention. There is talk about adding an adult division for next year’s contest.
MAURITA CREW
Montana Conference assistant superintendent and
Trout Creek Adventist School head teacher
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23 MAY/JUNE 2021OREGON IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS
CONFERENCE
CHURCH
Gold Beach Food
Bank Forges
Deep Community
Connections
“IT ALL STARTED WAY BACK IN THE ’80S around and wrote us a check for $6,000.” Though the food bank team is never sure
where the stuff will come from, heaven
when my grandson would not go to sleep,” The food bank takes a village of people always comes through.
says Lila Thorp. “I drove him around town to run it. Father Jim, the priest from the
and up in the mountains and up the river local Catholic church, says, “I love meeting
on the back roads where we saw people who people, and the people who come here really some boxes inside. I guess I’ve been working
were houseless, cold, wet and hungry. My need help. Before we open the doors, I ask if here every week since.”
mother often came along, and we couldn’t anyone has a prayer request, then we pray Volunteers know most of their
stand it. We’d drive home, get some food for everyone.” customers pretty well. When someone is
and blankets, and take the stuff back to the “Prayer is about the most important missing at the Tuesday meal, they go search
people who really needed it.” thing we do,” Thorp notes. “We pray for the for them to make sure everything’s okay.
That car minstry soon outgrew what people we’re serving, for the police and for “We’re more than cooks and grocery clerks,”
could fit inside a vehicle, and they began the community. I think the community’s says Terry, one of the volunteers. “Sometimes
serving meals to their community in the a better place because we’re all praying all we fix flat tires, fill gas tanks and meet other
Gold Beach Church fellowship room. the time.” needs.”
The little church may only have 47 Randy is one of those who initially
members on the books, but more than came for food assistance. “For a long time DICK DUERKSEN
a hundred folks come to the food bank I was coming just because we needed Oregon Conference storycatcher and
every Tuesday for hot soup, shoes, perfect the food,” he says. “Tommy, one of the storyteller
sandwiches and a food bank that looks volunteers here, asked if I would help bring
like a mini supermarket. A table is lined
with clothes, shoes, blankets and towels (From left)
for people in need. People can select the Volunteers
produce and bulk food they prefer. There’s include Barry
always potatoes, fruit, fresh salad, cereals Kimbrough, Gold
Beach Church’s
and canned vegetables. pastor, and Theis
“We’re never sure where the stuff will Corneliusen, a
come from,” Thorp says, “but God always truck driver.
provides a sure supply. The Lion’s Club and
the electric company run food drives for
us, and last month a lady came in, looked
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PAA ACTIONS ADDRESSING RACISM
FOLLOWING THE tragic death of George Floyd last year, Portland One PAA student deeply impacted by
Adventist Academy joined Adventist organizations worldwide in the social unrest last summer is senior Ulani
condemning violence and racism. Brown. She chose to use her senior project to
In written public statements PAA administrators announced explore racism in the Adventist Church. “What
their commitment to eradicating hate and violence and living inspired me to choose my senior project was
out Christ’s command to “love your neighbor as yourself.” That to be the change that I wanted to see,” says
commitment became action immediately: Brown. “Living in a world full of racism is very
» The school began an educational partnership with the Oregon difficult, but instead of running away from
Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. the problem I wanted to face it head on. ... I
U’LEE BROWN
» PAA teachers and staff studied perspectives of black realized that it is more important to try and
Americans. make a change in the community that I love
» Professional growth sessions continued this school year with rather than leaving it for someone else to do.”
PAA graduates
the OJMCHE. The school used Micah 6:8 to inspire its theme. “We are committed to doing better and (from left) Shaianne
» Seven more professional development sessions explored loving better both individually and as a whole Willis-Brown (2018)
identity and intersectionality, inclusive education, and more. school,” says Peinado. “We are so grateful for and U’Lee Brown
One session included alumni voices revealing experiences our staff, families, students, church members (1989), with PAA
senior Ulani Brown,
with racism at PAA. and constituents of color. We look forward visited downtown
» Five PAA parent workshops with the OJMCHE gave adults to learning more and growing into better Portland last
tools to talk to young people about racism. advocates and partners.” summer to view art
“We are only at the beginning of this journey,” says Mechelle Read more at paasda.org. inspired by social
Peinado, PAA principal. “We must be purposeful in growing and injustice. See this
LIESL VISTAUNET entire mural at
learning about the experiences, challenges and barriers each of our paasda.org.
students of color experience.” PAA Gleaner correspondent
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Livestream this year’s
worships, seminars,
workshops, children’s
programs and more
from home, and/or
join others in-person
at a local church
each evening!
Derek Morris, Oregon Conference Camp Meeting
Hope Channel president July 20-24 , 2021
John Bradshaw, Learn more at
It Is Written president www.OregonAdventist.org!
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