Northwest Adventists in Action JULY 2006, Vol. 101, No. 7 10 Lifesavers and Role Models 12 UCA’s Technology Program 14 Kirkland Teachers and Students www.GleanerOnline.org Images of Creation Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9 (NIV) “Majestic” photographed by Debbie Blackburn Beierle of Snohomish, Washington. O In this issue ADVENTIST EDUCATION ISSUE E d i t o r i a l 4 Is There an Adventist Advantage? N o r t h w e s t P i o n e e r s 6 o f Fa i t h 16 From Indian Fighter to 10 Adventist Preacher Fresh Start U C A ’ S T E C H N O L O G Y 17 Educational Directions PROGR A M 12 N e w s 18 NPUC KIR K L A N D T E ac HER S 21 Alaska 22 Idaho 14 A N D S T U DENT S 25 Montana 28 Oregon 36 Upper Columbia Perspective 42 Washington 47 College 48 Adventist Health 52 F a m i l y 54 Announcements 55 Advertisements 49 L e t ’ s T a l k 66 The Moral Minority Les Zollbrecht, Portland Adven- tist Academy Bible teacher points out a prominent Columbia River Gorge geographical feature to 50 Michelle Nayebkhil, Kyle Stevens, Meilani Kirkwood and Trent Wade. GLEANER photo. JULY 2006, Vol. 101, No. 7 GLEANER STAFF Editor Richard C. 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Box 871150 total of 12 issues per year by the North Pacific Union Conference Montana Archie Harris Vancouver, WA 98687 of Seventh-day Adventists, Columbia Tech Center, 1498 SE Tech Oregon Amy Schrader Center Pl. Suite 300, Vancouver, WA 98683. It is printed and Upper Columbia Garrett Caldwell Phone: (360) 816-1400 mailed at Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1350 N. Kings Rd., Nampa, ID 83687-3193. Subscription rate: $12.50 per year. Washington Doug Bing Periodical postage paid at Vancouver, WA 98687 and additional Walla Walla College Kristi Spurgeon [email protected] mailing offices. Adventist Health Heather Preston Wheeler www.gleaneronline.org LITHO U.S.A. GLEANER • JULY 2006 3 E d i t o r i a l Advent Is There anıst Advantage B Y A L A N H U R L B ERT or many decades, we have marketed our 2. Non-Adventist students attending Adventist Adventist schools by quoting statistics and schools. test scores. We talk about the more than 85 3. Adventist students attending non-Adventist percent of our students who attend college and the schools. more than 80 percent of those who begin college 4. Non-Adventist students attending non- who complete a degree. We talk about the nearly Adventist schools. 100 percent of our teachers who are certified and Parents and teachers will also be a part of the student performance which is close to the 70th research. Parents will be asked to complete a brief percentile on nationally normed standardized survey to facilitate the study. Teachers will be tests. Is all this talk mere propaganda? Do we have asked to perform an additional tally procedure empirical evidence that leads to the conclusion that when administering the standardized tests. These there is an Adventist advantage? joint efforts will provide much-needed answers on Parents who still want to be convinced that their how Adventist students compare with counterparts children will receive a quality education in the in other school systems. Adventist school system ask questions like: How Ellen G. White, in the book Education, describes do our Adventist elementary and secondary schools true education as the harmonious development of measure up to their public and private counterparts? the physical, mental and spiritual powers. In the Is the North American Division (NAD) Adventist landmark study ValueGenesis we have attempted curriculum comparable or superior? Do to measure the success of faith in learning in our Adventist teachers have the “right stuff” that the schools. In CognitiveGenesis we will attempt to denominational certification process is expected to measure the mental advantages and later studies instill? may focus on the physical advantages. Are these legitimate concerns? You bet they One of the researchers involved in this study put are! These concerns are to be addressed in a new it this way, “CognitiveGenesis can help Adventist study developed by the La Sierra University School education determine if our schools are developing of Education. It will seek to answer the question, ‘thinkers and not mere reflectors’ of other people’s “What impact does Adventist education have on the thoughts.” Isn’t the calling of Adventist education academic performance of students?” to develop true thinkers–young people equipped A definitive answer, based on valid, reliable, with sound academics to serve God and their empirical data, will lead to one of two possible fellow man? outcomes, either of which will prove beneficial to Is this a scary initiative? Not at all. Self- Adventist education: examination led by the Spirit can only be helpful 1. The validation of Adventist education in terms as we plot a course for the future. Could we find of students’ measurable academic performance, or out things we don’t want to know? Yes, possibly. 2. The identification of areas needing However, what an opportunity to make Spirit- improvement. directed changes, if needed, to benefit our kids and The title of this new study is CognitiveGenesis. help them be ready for this world and the better one A pilot study is currently underway in the Pacific to come. Union Conference. CognitiveGenesis will be We hope this CognitiveGenesis study will Alan Hurlbert, North comprehensive, with most all of the Adventist build faith in both our students and parents that elementary and secondary students across North our Adventist school system is truly a gift from Pacific Union vice America involved for a period of three years. God. Our members, our parents, and certainly president for education, CognitiveGenesis will use valid, reliable data and our students deserve this study and this attempt statistical tests. The study will allow cause and to do our very best to prepare them for life here writes from Vancouver, effect to be explored by removing biases. The and hereafter. We want our schools to be the Washington. demographic composition will include four groups: embodiment of our NAD education motto, “A 1. Adventist students attending Adventist Journey to Excellence.” • schools. KEYWORD 4 G L E A N E R • JULY 2 0 0 6 Advantage www.GleanerOnline.org t h e N o o f r t h d s w e i r s B t 1 Birds of the Northwest These birds are commonly seen in the Northwestern United States. How many can you identify? 2 4 5 6 3 7 10 8 9 11 13 12 14 Photographs by Roger Windemuth of Brush Prairie, Washington. Answers on page 55. GLEANER • JULY 2006 5 A D V E N T I S T E DUC A T I O N I SSUE WHY HAVE ADVENT I S T E D U C A T I ON? W H Y Ha VE A D V E N T I S T E D uca TION? B Y G E O R G E R . K N I G H T n spite of its outstanding contributions to the church and the He intensely taught a core of 12 disciples/students for three larger world, Adventist education is under fire. But the sad fact years, yet when He went to the cross, not one of them, as far is that in the early 21st century, the attack all too often is com- as we can tell, was converted or even understood the central ing from inside the denomination. message of His teaching. Far from self-denial and servanthood, ISome pastors, for example, have argued that Adventist educa- they were all arguing about who was the greatest, even as He ap- tion “is stealing money from evangelism.” A concerned church proached His sacrificial death. And, of course, one betrayed Him member recently wrote that “the pastor of my church has decided and another swore that he didn’t even know Jesus. that Christian education is irrelevant and not soul winning and What a wasted life! From a human perspective, Jesus could therefore our local [Adventist] school should be closed so as not certainly have spent His time in a more profitable way. to waste any more of the money that he could be putting into But He had His eye on the long run rather than the short term. his evangelism to win souls. He has previously sent out e-mails After Pentecost, the majority of those disciples would be trans- stating that it is his intention to see the school closed. Last formed into powerhouses for the gospel.