Union News

Union Executive Committee Prays and Plans

After meeting by phone in September, Pacific Union executive committee members devoted nearly an hour on Nov. 18 to worshipping God, praying, and sharing their appreciation for God’s work in …

Southeastern California

Journals of a Mission Trip

The week before Thanksgiving, on a Thursday morning, students and sponsors from Loma Linda, La Sierra and Escondido academies and La Sierra University left their schools for Power Week, a …

Paradise Valley Members Celebrate Diversity at Thanksgiving

Members representing 32 countries, many in the national dress of their country of origin, filled the Paradise Valley church on Thanksgiving Sabbath for a Festival of Nations Sabbath celebration. For …

Azure Hills Members Participate in World AIDS Day

“Welcome to the City of God. We here at the Azure Hills Seventh-day Adventist Church are participating in World AIDS Day by creating a global village. Please come in, walk …

Southern California

Church Experiences a Revival that Leads to Mission

The Baldwin Park Bilingual church organized three 40-Day Holy Spirit revivals during 2010, in which 150 families participated. Each revival ended with a one-week evangelistic meeting. “Our purpose was to …

Ventura Members Communicate Their Faith by Helping the Homeless

Stay away from that church,” said a local Christian pastor when a homeless family he was helping told him how helpful the pastor and members of the Ventura church had …

Pheron Initiates Camp Ministry at Northridge CSUN

Pheron, a Southern California Conference organization for youth and young adult ministry, recently held an organizing meeting for a campus ministry on the campus of California State University, Northridge (CSUN). …

Young Adult Walks Again, with Jesus

Raised and baptized in the Van Nuys Spanish church, 13-year-old Jason Arias began to live his life apart from God. “He occasionally visited church,” said Pastor Yonny Jiminez, “but did …

Central California

Students Read "Messiah"

God, I need a book to help me get closer to you,” prayed Bakersfield Adventist Academy (BAA) sophomore Emmanuel Abarquez one morning last spring. Abarquez was struggling with bitterness, in …

Ron Rasmussen Selected as Executive Secretary

The Conference Executive Committee on December 14 voted Ron Rasmussen as the new executive secretary for the Central California Conference. Rasmussen is currently serving as senior pastor of the Modesto …

Fresno Teens Preach Red Letter Series

A colorful flyer caught Tony Medina’s eye as he exited a pizza place in Fresno, Calif., last fall. The flyer advertised The Red Letters, a youth-led evangelistic series being held …

GLOW Tracts Exceed 10 Million Worldwide

The last stop on the annual Walk Through Bethlehem tour on the lawn of the Bakersfield Hillcrest church is the prayer station, where church members and two Bible workers pray …

Northern California

Richard Magnuson Named Director of Trust and Property Management

On Dec. 15, the Northern California Conference Executive Committee voted to approve Richard Magnuson, Jr., to be director of the Trust and Property Management Department for the NCC. He succeeds …

Three NCC Pastors Ordained in 2010

Three Northern California Conference pastors were ordained to the Gospel ministry in 2010. Although none of them originally intended to make ministry their lifework, God had His own plans. Fereti …

Arizona

Ground Breaking for New Church in Surprise, Arizona

Surprise, Ariz. has experienced such rapid population growth — from 25,000 to 115,000 in just four years — that it has been referred to as the number one city in …

Backpacks for Christ Dispenses Backpacks and Love

Backpacks for Christ, now in it’s second year, is a Christmas community outreach of the Camelback Seventh-day Adventist Church. The ministry puts one thousand sturdy backpacks, warm gloves and copies …

Hawaii

Adventist Burrill, 92, Likely Sets Marathon Record

Gladys Burrill says life is like a marathon. She would know — she's 92 and believed to be the world's oldest woman to have completed an official 26.2-mile race. Burrill …

Nevada-Utah

New Administrative Personnel for Nevada-Utah in 2010

Many important events took place during 2010 in the Nevada-Utah Conference, not the least of which were important administrative changes at the conference level. Now a more fully constituted team …

La Sierra University

La Sierra Students Aid United Way Effort

The benefit worked both ways this fall quarter for students who served as first-ever interns at the United Way of the Inland Valleys and for the agency which drew upon …

Loma Linda

Loma Linda Conference to Put Food on the Table

Between buying, preparing, and eating, food makes up a huge part of our lives. It also impacts greatly our society, the economy, and the environment — in addition to individual …

Pacific Union College

PUC Announces Four-Year Scholarship Guarantee

After being named a "best value" in higher education earlier this year by U.S. News and World Report, Pacific Union College announces a new program to make an Adventist college …

Adventist Health

Adventist Medical Center–Hanford Opens

For months, hundreds of staff members at the former Hanford Community Medical Center (HCMC) and Central Valley General Hospital (CVGH) have worked through a list of more than 400 tasks, …

President's Perspective

Overcoming the Enemy

The Bible tells us in numerous places how we can overcome our common enemy, the devil. John the revelator wrote, in part: "And they overcame him by the blood of …

Public Affairs & Religious Liberty

Religious Liberty on Camera

A little more powder to cut the camera shine. A final adjustment of the microphones to make sure they are not visible. A "five, four, three, two, one" countdown from …

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Bedwell, Marvel – b. Aug. 3, 1917, Mower, Saskatchewan, Canada; d. Nov. 25, 2010, Loma Linda, Calif. Survivors: son, Darrel; daughter, Carole Brodeur; one grandchild. Bentjen, Melvin C. – b. …