AUGUST 201 3 Vol. 108, No. 8 NORTHWEST AD V ENTISTS IN ACTION For I know the plans i have for you, DECLARES the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to •give you• hope AND a FUTURE. JEREMIAH 29:11 the joy of partnering with God IMAGES OF CREATION For His Glory nd God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. Genesis 1:9 (NIV) A 4 FYI/LETTERS EDITORIAL 5 Why I Believe in Planned Giving All FEATURE 8 A Two-Way Blessing 10 A Gift That Keeps on Giving 12 Caring Heart Award Winners For His Glory 16 Northwest the joy of partnering with God Adventist Schools ACCION 20 La Palabra de Dios Nunca Vuelve Vacía CONFERENCE NEWS 21 Alaska 22 Idaho 23 Montana 25 Oregon 29 Upper Columbia 34 Washington 37 Walla Walla University 38 Adventist Health 39 Northwest FEATURE 42 FAMILY 6 46 ANNOUNCEMENTS 48 ADVERTISEMENTS LET’S TALK 54 Spectators POSTMASTER: send all address changes to: North Pacific Union Conference GLEANER, 5709 N. 20th St., Ridgefield, WA 98642 GLEANER STAFF Phone: 360-857-7000 Editor: Steve Vistaunet [email protected] Copy Editor: Laurel Rogers www.gleaneronline.org Advertising and Project Manager: Desiree Lockwood SUBMISSIONS: Timely announcements, features, news Digital Media Coordinator: stories and family notices for publication in the GLEANER Brent Hardinge may be submitted directly to the project manager at Design: GUILDHOUSE Group the address listed above. 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Periodical registered trademarks of the General Conference of Walla Walla University: Rosa Jimenez, [email protected] ® postage paid at Ridgefield, WA 98642 and additional Seventh-day Adventists . Adventist Health: Ruthie Montgomery, [email protected] mailing offices. LITHO U.S.A. NEWS AND NOTES Wanted: A Few Good Lay Pastoral Couples One of the most progressive ministries of of elders who genuinely care and are the Northwest is the Indian and Eskimo constantly available. We need folk who Native work. Because of adventurous, can live within their retirement income, hard-working pioneers in remote areas, live in provided housing and get along on Native membership has increased al- a limited expense budget for two to four most 1,000 percent in the last 16 years. years. It may not be luxury living, but adventurous and resourceful, who can we can guarantee your life will never be handle solitude and who don’t have to Today there is a huge need for lay pastoral the same after serving these folk in these make a trip to the mall everyday. workers to provide nurturing leadership remote places. to these small member-groups. You don’t So this is our official “call” for help. If this have to be a Billy Graham or have a col- We have three or four places that need touches a chord in your soul, we hope you lege/seminary degree to do this. You sim- somebody right away. One place is will pray about it. Please give us a call and ply have to know how to love people, lead Queets, Wash., with the Quinault people, let us try to answer your questions. out in Sabbath services, have a balanced where we have a small group of wonder- understanding of the Adventist message ful Native members, a remodeled church Monte Church, North Pacific Union Con- and be loyal to God’s church. building (pictured here) and a broken- ference, 503-880-5111 down parsonage, which we now have Remember, in this business God doesn’t finances to remodel. Ken Crawford, Alaska Conference, call the qualified but qualifies those who 907-346-1004 are called. Native culture has a tremen- We have three village churches in Alaska dous respect for the gentle wisdom for those who might be a little more Letters Beyond Belief Is Beyond Belief ... us to “jump to confusions.” This seems the Bible alone, as we claim, we will see to be a less valid survey than if you asked more departures from membership. The The article entitled “It’s Beyond Belief,” me to send you a single strand of my hair best quote of the article was, “As long as June 2013, poses what I believe to be to determine what color it was when I someone continues to prayerfully plumb some grave problems. It states, “While left high school. We need to continually the depths of Scripture, there should be relationships will always factor into any guard our attitudes and beliefs, but we room for them in this church.” Let our church member’s experience, a new study should not create false assumptions from only creed be the Scriptures. suggests a shifting landscape in which flawed data, no matter how diligent or more and more people are leaving the sincere those who produce it. Mel MacPhee, Gresham, Ore. Adventist Church primarily because they have changed their beliefs.” The “sur- Newton States, Emmett, Idaho Continued on page 47 ... veyors” invited 600 people to respond to a “survey” concerning more than a ... Or Maybe Not million members in North America and 15 million in the world. Of those 600, Andy Nash’s article only 190, or 31.6 percent, responded. Of about members leaving the respondents, 93, or 49 percent, said over doctrine differ- they left because of doctrinal differ- ences was excellent. If ences. Nineteen responded that their own our 28 fundamental GLEANER lifestyle was at variance, 10 percent. We beliefs become our 5709 N. 20th St. need to avoid anything that would cause creed instead of Ridgefield, WA 98642 4 GLEANER • August 2013 Send letters, stories, photos to [email protected]. E DITORIAL Why I Believe in Planned Giving or almost 25 years I’ve had the privilege of als with varying degrees of financial responsibility. Fworking with my fellow church members in Planning your estate now with a will or revocable the planned giving and trust services departments trust can provide management assistance for family for Oregon Conference and North Pacific Union members who are ill-equipped for assuming an in- Conference. It has been a joy to share time with heritance. Taking this step now can turn a potential our church families as they create estate plans and curse into a blessing. establish charitable gifts. Assisting families with the Jesus provided us with a wonderful example of settling of estates has been a poignant and solemn providing for our loved ones when He entrusted his responsibility for those of us in planned giving work. mother, Mary, to His beloved disciple John. We have While each situation is unique, most families have the ability to provide guardianship of our children common concerns as they seek to design financial by writing a will and appointing individuals we have support that will outlive them — for both their confidence in, rather than someone a court might own family’s needs and for the church mission they appoint. This solemn responsibility alone should love. Because of this, I wholeheartedly believe that motivate us to write a will today. Why would we wait planned giving and trust services can and should any longer? touch each of our church members. The opportunity we’ve been given of determining We serve an awesome God, one who blesses those how God’s blessings will be distributed is one that who love Him and those who don’t. As Jesus said, many people avoid. Perhaps it’s a fear of the unpleas- “For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the ant thought of death that causes us to delay. What- good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the un- ever the reason, we should remember that if we just” (Matthew 5:45, KJV). We have been showered do not set up specific directions in a will or with abundant blessings. But those of us who love trust the proceeds from our estate may Jesus recognize that each of these blessings comes never benefit the Lord’s work. In con- with responsibilities and duties. We are stewards of trast, I have seen gift plans established those blessings, with the privilege and joy of their many years ago provide unexpected use while we’re living. blessing to the work of our churches, But what happens when we die? Will those bless- schools, hospitals and other minis- ings be treated as carefully, honestly or unselfishly? tries, just when those resources are There is good news and an easy answer to that ques- needed most. I like to call it “just in tion. Each of us has the opportunity to direct how God’s time” stewardship because His those blessings, the tangible property we own, can timing is perfect.