North Pacific Union

Offerings

June 4—Local Church Budget; June 11—World Budget: General Conference Special Project Offering: Hope for Big Cities (go to www.adventist.org for information); June 18—Local Church Budget; June 25—Local Conference Advance; 13th Sabbath Offering overflow: radio station in the Portland metro area (see news story on page 13 of this issue); July 2—Local Church Budget.

Special Days

June 4—Women's Ministries Emphasis Day; July 9—Home Study International Promotional Day.

Walla Walla College

Calendar of Events

June 4—wwcdrama: Festival of the Actors, 9 p.m., Donnie Rigby Stage (DRS); June 5—wwcdrama: Festival of the Actors, 2 and 8 p.m., DRS; June 5—hooding ceremony/graduation celebration, 2 p.m., Missoula campus; June 10–12—graduation weekend, College Place campus: June 10, vespers: consecration, 8 p.m., College Church; June 11, nurses pinning ceremony, 4 p.m., College Church; master’s degree hooding ceremony, 7 p.m., Walla Walla Valley Academy; Evensong, 8 p.m., College Church; June 12, commencement, 8:30 a.m., Centennial Green; June 17–18—Upper Columbia Conference camp meeting; June 20—WWC summer school orientation, 5 p.m., Student Association Center.

Oregon

Retired Workers' Fellowship

June 7—Oregon Conference President Don Livesay will fellowship with us and share some thoughts. All retired denominational workers are invited to attend. This monthly potluck meeting begins at 11:30 a.m. in the downstairs multipurpose room of the Oregon Conference office at 13455 S.E. 97th Ave., Clackamas, Ore. Bring food and table service. For information, call Franklin Gearhart at (503) 674-4951.

Sunnyside Church Events

June 4—Walla Walla College nurse’s baccalaureate service at 11:30 a.m.; Canticle of Praise concert, directed by Lynn Hansen at 7 p.m. Come and enjoy various hymn arrangements for choir and instruments, along with audience participation. June 11—Sunnyside Chorus and the Common Cup Chorus concert, with the Sunnyside Symphony Orchestra, directed by Travis Hatton at 4 p.m., featuring soloists, Donna Mitchell and Julie Smith, sopranos; Tuesday Kingsbury, alto; Clifford Fairley, tenor; and Andrew Willette, bass. (They will also be appearing June 12, at the First United Methodist Church, 1838 S.W. Jefferson at 4 p.m.) June 18—Sunnyside’s annual Strawberry Vespers, the traditional welcome to summer organized by Lloyd Westcott, at 5:30 p.m., followed by a concert by The Heritage Singers. June 18–July 16—Evangelistic tent meetings in conjunction with Mission College of Evangelism, with Louis Torres, begin at 7:30 p.m. The speaker will be Randy Courtad, pastor and evangelist. Come and bring your friends, relatives and co-workers who are searching for Jesus. June 26–30—Vacation Bible School. Serengeti Trek—Where Kids Are Wild About God, 6:30–8 p.m. The Sunnyside Church is located at 10501 S.E. Market St., Portland, Ore. For more information or directions, call (503) 252-8080.

Southern Oregon Youth Festival

June 17–18—Youth pastors Randy Hill, Carl Wilkens, Jared Spano, and Ed Nelson will be leading a spiritual growth weekend campout on Milo Adventist Academy property at Camp Umpqua. For information, contact Carl Wilkens at (541) 825-3626 or carl.wilkens@miloacademy.org.

Southern Oregon Camp Meeting

June 17–18—at Milo Adventist Academy. Friday 7–9 p.m.; Sabbath 9:30 a.m.–9 p.m. The featured speaker is Karl Haffner, Walla Walla College Church senior pastor, and Carlos Camacho will be presenting the Spanish meetings. For lodging reservations call (541) 825-3200, ext. 3321. June 18—Health Update: Join health educator Marilyn Renk, MPH, as she addresses the question, “Do current health studies confirm that a biblically based, well-rounded lifestyle is best for optimal living?” This seminar is presented by the Oregon Conference health ministries department.

Singles Activities

June 18—Potluck at Beaverton Church, 12:30; after potluck an afternoon hike, then in the evening to a private home for games and potluck snacks. June 19—Meet at the Beaverton Church at 8 a.m. and carpool to Hood River to ride the Mt. Hood Railroad Excursion; www.mthoodrr.com. For more information, call Charlotte at (503) 579-9549, Tom at (503) 684-7971, the hotline (503) 654-6054 opt. 4, or visit the Beaverton Church Web site at www.beavertonsda.com and follow the prompts to the singles section.

Evangelism Training Camp

July 19–24—Youth and young adults, are you ready to make a difference for eternity? Join Pastor David Asscherick and other young people at the free Evangelism Training Camp happening at Gladstone camp meeting. Registration is required. For information, call (503) 652-2225, ext. 406; or visit www.EvangelismTrainingCamp.org.

Gladstone Camp Meeting

July 19–23—Plan now to attend Gladstone camp meeting at Gladstone Park Conference Center. Featured guests include Shawn Boonstra, Joy Butler, Laurel Damsteegt, Jacques Doukhan, Miraslav Kis, Kay Kuzma, Neil Nedley, Jere Patzer, Joe Wheeler, and Carl Wilkens. Schedules, speaker bios, and seminar descriptions are available at www.OregonConference.org.

Disaster Response Training

A multi-step training system has been developed by Adventist Community Services to prepare leaders and skilled volunteers for disaster response. Completion of each training step will qualify a person to participate in a specific role in disaster response. The following training sessions will be taught by Dave Russell, Oregon Conference northern disaster response coordinator, at Gladstone camp meeting. July 20—Step 2 emergency distribution operations, 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.; July 21—Step 3 disaster preparedness instruction in the necessary procedures for planning, organizing and developing internal and inter-agency communications before a disaster, 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. This course qualifies you to serve as a disaster/safety officer at your local church or area level. July 22—forklift certification, 10:30 and 1:30 p.m. Classwork and hands-on training will be provided. Upon successful completion, you will be certified to operate a class-5 internal-combustion engine forklift. Class size is limited, so you must pre-register at (503) 652-2225, ext. 413.

Newbold College Reunion Potluck

July 23—During the 2005 Oregon Conference camp meeting, a potluck lunch will be held at 1:00 p.m. at the Rivergate School gymnasium, 1505 Ohlson Road, Gladstone, Ore. (located just behind the Gladstone Park Convention Center). For more information, contact: Lora Woodruff at (503) 803-3000; or lora_woodruff@yahoo.com.

Laurelwood Academy Alumni

July 29–July 31—Laurelwood Academy class of 1975 will hold their 30th class reunion in Lincoln City, Ore. Please contact Jodi Douglas for more information; (503) 621-9754 or jodi.douglas@att.net.

Upper Columbia

Pathfinder Reunion

July 28–Aug. 1—All Hermiston Pathfinders and staff from 1971–1990 will be celebrating a reunion at Cutsforth Park in Oregon. Come and enjoy this special time to renew friendships and share memories. If you can't make it for the whole time, come when you can. Carolyn Bullock at (509) 531-6310 or familyenrichment1@juno.com or Sue (White) Wein at (603) 434-8207 or swhitewein@aol.com are eager to provide you with more information. Or, if you absolutely can't come, please send scrapbook information (You know—pictures, the true story of your life, etc.) to Harold Harvey, 310 S.E. 4th St., Hermiston, OR 97838.

Northern Idaho Camp Meeting

June 21–25—Come set apart a time to be with fellow believers in northern Idaho to listen to Lewis and Jo Ellen Walton and Ivor and Attante Myer speak about our relationship with Jesus at this time in history. A vegetarian noon meal and RV and tent spaces are available at Cornerstone Christian School, six miles north of Bonners Ferry on Hwy. 95. For information, contact Leslie Dudley at (406) 295-5044 or Walter Tschoepe at (208) 267-2395.

Washington

Washington SAGE

June 18—SAGE seniors are invited to come and celebrate 11 great years of senior fun, fellowship and service at the annual Auburn camp meeting supper. Be at the AAA cafeteria at 5:30 p.m. For more information, contact (253) 681-6008; www.sage-washington.com; or 3450 S. 344th Way, Suite 200, Federal Way, WA 98233.

World Church

Camp Meetings on Satellite

Three conferences will uplink their camp meetings on the Adventist Communication Network this year: May 27–June 4—Florida Conference; June 10–11 and 17–18—Southeastern Conference; and July 21–30—Central California Conference. Visit www.acn.info for Florida’s camp meeting schedule, and keep checking back for other camp meeting schedules as they become available.

General Conference Offering

Every five years the world church chooses a special project for the General Conference offering. In 2005, the focus turns to the rapidly growing populations of the world's geat urban areas. Hope for Big Cities will provide seed money for world divisions to focus on long-term plans to establish and nurture new churches in major cities where the Adventist Church is struggling to get a foothold. The offering will be taken in all NAD churches as well as at the session on July 9. Learn more about this at the world church's official Web site, www.adventist.org. Click on Hope for Big Cities.

GC Coverage in Northwest

With wide media coverage provided by Adventist News Network (ANN), Adventist Review, Adventist World Radio (AWR) and Adventist Television Network (ATN), people will have access to the events at GC Session.

Hope Channel broadcasts for the session are planned in four languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish and French. June 29–July 9, daily uplinks: morning devotional, 8–9 a.m. PDT; news show anchored by Mark Finley, 3:30–4:30 p.m. PDT; music program, 4:30–5 p.m. PDT; division reports, 5–7 p.m. PDT; rebroadcast of the news show, 7–8 p.m. PDT. Sabbath: worship service, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. PDT. The afternoon mission program also may be uplinked (to be announced). The full daily schedule of TV broadcasts is available at www.HopeTV.org. Hope Channel will also provide the full broadcast via streaming video at www.HopeTV.org.

We have asked our Northwest delegates to share their impressions during the session at www.gleaneronline.org in the new GleanerNOW! front-page feature. A final Northwest wrap-up will appear in the September print edition of GLEANER, since the August issue will already have gone to press before the editors leave for the session.

25th Annual ASDAL Conference

July 11–16—“Christian Librarianship: Occupation, Vocation, or Ministry," Union College, Lincoln, Neb. Adventist Resources pre-session. School librarians have concurrent sessions with a post-conference workshop, “Practical Aspects of Library Leadership.” For information, go to www.asdal.org; or contact Linda Mack at mack@Andrews.org; or call (269) 471-3114.

Pine Forge Academy Homecoming

Sept. 2–4—Alumni weekend features: alumni career fair; Friday vespers, Charles Drake, ’65; Sabbath services, Myron Edmonds, ’95; awards program, honoring Louise Hendricks, ’50; Ernestine Peoples, ’65; Lloyd Mallory, ’85; and Lawrence Martin. Spotlight classes: ’55, ’65, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’95, ’00, ’05. Visit www.pfaalumni.org.