“In Community” was the theme for this year’s Gladstone Camp Meeting. Long before the tents were standing, the pronto pups were frying, or the iconic green benches were set up on the lawn, volunteers and staff were hard at work putting that theme into action.

As many begin preparing for their trip to Gladstone for camp meeting, Gladstone Park is alive with the sounds of construction, the smell of paint, and the familiar sight of tents and benches. When it comes to camp meeting, this is your ultimate guide!

Join the Oregon Conference office team as we keep praying for this process and seek God’s will for the future leaders of Oregon Conference Education. 

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The Bloom church plant began as an Adventist Fellowship in late 2019, with public Sabbath worship services beginning in 2020 as part of the Oregon Conference initiative to plant more new churches across the territory.  

For many who were raised in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, camp meeting is a tradition that extends far beyond the generations of our parents and grandparents. It’s something we may take for granted or assume the people around us know about, but for many people the idea of camp meeting is something new.

This June, a group from Oregon Conference Hispanic Ministries embarked on Next, an educational journey through the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark.

“It was a beautiful program, but it was also meaningful. Not only did we work together, we created experiences and had a whole bunch of lessons.” This is the way Natalia Gramada, Sunnyside Adventist Church Adventurer director, described the Adventurer Family Camporee that was held June 9-11th at the Gladstone Park Conference Center.  

Juan Pacheco was appointed as the new Assistant to the President for Communication by the Oregon Conference Executive Committee on Thursday, June 22, filling the position formerly held by Jonathan Russell as he transitions into his new role as Assistant to the President.

Scappoose Adventist School (SAS) held its first annual ‘Homecoming Sabbath’ alumni event in March. Teachers, students and staff, past and present, along with church members gathered together to celebrate the school’s 88 years of service to Columbia County.

On Thursday June 22, the Oregon Conference Executive Committee appointed Jonathan Russell to be the next Assistant to the President, a position vacated by Randy Hill as he begins his new role in the Pacific Union Conference later this summer.