NORTHWEST ADVENTISTS IN ACTION AUGUST 2012 Vol. 107, No. 8 ALASKA HOS T S This is the first wave of what we hope will be a revival in outreach throughout Alaska. PAGE 6 IMAGES OF CREATION The LORD is slow to anger but great in power ... His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of His feet. Nahum 1:3 (NIV) ‘A Gathering’ by Dean Huggins of Otis Orchards, Washington. 4 FYI ALASKA HOS T S EDITORIAL 5 He Put Them There FEATURE 6 Alaska Hosts ‘Revive’ ACCION 10 La Comunidad Reconoce el Servicio CONFERENCE NEWS 11 Alaska 13 Idaho 14 Montana 15 Oregon 19 Upper Columbia 23 Washington FEATURE 26 Walla Walla University 27 Adventist Health 6 28 Northwest News 30 SCHOOL DIRECTORY 34 FAMILY 37 ANNOUNCEMENTS 38 ADVERTISEMENTS LET’S TALK 46 One Little Candle 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] Managing Editor: Cindy Chamberlin www.gleaneronline.org Copy Editor: Laurel Rogers SUBMISSIONS: Timely announcements, features, news Advertising and Copy Coordinator: stories and family notices for publication in the GLEANER Desiree Lockwood may be submitted directly to the copy coordinator at Consultant to the Editors: Mark Gutman the address listed above. 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Her attention to detail and Chamberlin, GLEANER managing edi- tor, will have left her role and begun her her determined work ethic have been new position as communication director almost beyond compare, perhaps even for the Illinois Conference of Seventh- irreplaceable. Yet, we are delighted that day Adventists. There, she will serve as Cindy’s spiritual gifts will continue to head of a department and concentrate thrive in a new arena for our church. on both print and broadcast journalism. We invite your prayers for her and her family as this new journey begins. This change is due to an increased North Pacific Union Conference focus Thank you, Cindy, for the four-plus toward enhanced digital communica- years of blessings you brought to all of tion channels. Northwest members will us here in the Northwest. begin to see some of these enhance- ments in the coming year. Steve Vistaunet, GLEANER editor Letters Why Celebrate Easter? area of concern to local church discre- tion. All such Adventist pageants and Regarding the June issue and the article ccommemorations of which we are aware Prayers for Chaplains regarding Easter outreach events, I wishh are cacarefullyrefully ffocused on the joy of a risen to pose one question. Why are these Lord. This belief,belief, atat thethe core of Adventist The June 2012 GLEANER was excep- events held on the Easter weekend? Wee ththeology,eology, is something we shshareare wiwitht tional from beginning to end. The all know that Easter is a pagan holidayy many other Christian denominations. report on Adventist chaplains added and has an idol worship background. to my prayer list — both a thank-you to God for their services and for His Irene Lyon, Silverlake, Washington wisdom to continue guiding them. I was inspired by all those spending heartfelt Note from the Editors: Similar ques-- witness in one form or another. Having tions have been raised about Christ-t- labored there, reports each month from mas and the origins of some of its Alaska and Montana get our special in- traditions. Ellen White did speak terest and prayers. Let’s Talk, a favorite out against the inordinate cel- of all issues, always gives me a smile and ebration of Easter (see The Greatat a challenge. Controversy, pp. 386–387). GLEANER However, the world church hass 5709 N. 20th St. Velma Beavon, Dayton, Montana seen fit to leave this particularr Ridgefi eld, WA 98642 Se nd let to t ters alk@ , stor glea iees,s nero phoh 4 GLEANER • August 2012 nlin tos e.org. EDITORIAL He Put Th em There had been in winter storms before, but this was a an impossibility!” By now I was almost shouting in Iblizzard. It’s not that I wasn’t an experienced snow- his ear over the howling wind. machine driver. I had driven sleds since I was a boy; Wilson gave me a bewildered, quizzical look “Th ere it’s just that I hadn’t experienced anything like this and then said in his soft -spoken voice, “I put them before. there!” I stood in dumbfounded wonder at this Es- Colleen and I had arrived nearly six months kimo man. Of course he knew where they were — he are people before as volunteer missionaries in Savoonga, on had put them there. St. Lawrence Island, located in this remote part of How oft en I have thought of that profound answer looking arctic Alaska. Wilson Okoomelingok and his wife, from Wilson: “I know where they are, for I put them Hortense, were our fi rst Bible studies, and what a there.” pensively thrill it was to open the Bible and share the beautiful It brings to mind the words from Ephesians: “For plan of salvation and see the lights of understanding we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to for the wink on. do good works, which God prepared in advance for But, believe me, there was no light on this hunting us to do” (Ephesians 2:10, NIV). light of trip with Wilson. Wilson was an experienced Eskimo Th ink about it: He put them there. Here in Alaska hunter, and, in what I considered a raging blizzard more than 80 percent of the towns and villages can with white-out conditions. I followed his taillight only be reached by airplane. In Alaska we have more salvation.” almost on top of him. I knew if I lost that little red than 230 villages, and we only have a presence in light, it was all over for me on this trackless tundra. about 10. In every one of thosehose villages,villages, therethere Th en suddenly the taillight brightened as Wilson are people who are lookingg pensivelypensively forfor stopped, got off his machine and walked to an arctic the light of salvation as a starvingtarving man fox trap hidden in the snow. Th en off we went again looks longingly through thehe windowindoww in the blinding storm. Aft er another short distance, of a lavish restaurant. God put them he repeated the same action, and there was another there and put that unansweredered yearn-yearn- trap. ing in their hearts. As we traveled, my mind was whirling: “How can I believe our heavenly Father’sather’s de- a man fi nd a fox trap in a blinding snowstorm, when light is in intersecting the ppathath of the yoyou can’t see three feet in front of you? I just don’t searchers with the path of tthehe ggiversivers gegett itit.”.” FFinallyinally aaft er several times, in exasperation, I so they can show them the waway.y. Th eeyy blurted out, “Wilson“Wilson!! HowHow dod you do that? How do have the questions, and in Christ we you fi nd them in this blizzard? YoYouu cacan’tnt ssee a thing have the answer. Th at’s whyy He put — white ground, white snow and white out. Th is is them there. KEN CRAWFORD AlaskaA Conference President FEATURE ALASKA HOS T hen the Voice of Prophecy (VOP) broadcast ministry discussed initial ideas for their 2012 Family Reunion Music Camp Meeting at Sea cruise, all votes pointed toward Alaska. That was the beginning of a project that grew into one of the most ambitious evangelistic outreach projects in Alaska’s history. Lance Liebelt, VOP man- tion cards to every person ager, asked, “If we’re going in every city and village in to Alaska, what more can we Alaska?” they wondered. And do?” In previous cruises, the when they called Ken Craw- VOP group had discovered the ford, Alaska Conference presi- joy of doing a special project at dent, he was ecstatic about the their destination. In fact, many potential. said the projects were an even Th us was born the Reach greater adventure than the Alaska project, designed to cruise itself.