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Friday, October 23, 2020
Your weekly news for the Rocky Mountain Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists.
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GVR EVACUATED; WILDFIRE THREATENS
***UPDATED 11:00 p.m. Thursday, October 22***
RMCNews – Ward, Colorado … Glacier View Ranch is currently evacuated out of abundance of caution, due to the nearby Cal-Wood Fire.
The Cal-Wood fire has grown to over ten thousand acres, according the Boulder County Emergency Operations Center website. The fire has not made any forward movements toward GVR.
GVR staff hopes to gain access to the property, before the weekend to shut off the main water line and drain pipes to prevent frozen pipes due to the forecasted cold temperatures this weekend. GVR currently has no electricity due to the power being turned off by the fire crews.
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DO NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE ULTIMATE GOAL
By Bob McAlpine –Have Adventists lost their way when it comes to political participation in 2020?
Seventh-day Adventists have always been deeply involved in American politics. When a national Sunday law was proposed in 1888, one of the Adventist pioneers, A.T. Jones, played a crucial role in defeating it. Ellen White herself was vocal about the evils of the Fugitive Slave Act before the Civil War and equally vocal about the necessity of “temperance reforms,” by which she meant advocacy against the consumption of alcohol after the Civil War.
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RMC ASSISTS WITH WILDFIRE RELIEF IN OREGON
By Cathy Kissner – Grants Pass, Oregon … Members of the Rocky Mountain Conference Adventist Community Service Disaster Rapid Response Leadership team were requested, on October 1, to assist the North Pacific Union Conference and the Oregon Conference in the recovery of the wildfires impacting the State of Oregon.
Their responsibility was to establish and oversee the opening of a multi-agency warehouse to assist the southern Oregon recovery from the wildfires, and to train members of the Oregon and North Pacific Union Conference.
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COOKING, JOB HUNTING, WOODWORKING AND ROBOTICS AT MHA
By Karrie Meyers – Highlands Ranch, Colorado … Mile High Academy students learn skills for life in elective classes.
Students can choose classes including: art, woodworking, life skills, outdoor survival, drama, yearbook, strategy games, robotics and Spanish.
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MHA STUDENTS WALK FOR FALL FUNDRAISER
By Karrie Meyers – Highlands Ranch, Colorado … Mile High Academy students walked during the 2nd annual walk-a-thon fundraiser for MHA’s annual fund.
The event took on a different look, due to the ongoing pandemic restrictions causing the daylong event to be divided in 90-minute block schedules for each cohort, with the event expanding over two days.
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COMMENTARY: END OF YEAR PLANNING
By Doug Inglish–Like many of you, I start to think about what kind of gifts I want to give long before birthdays, graduations, or anniversaries arrive. You don’t want to find that the store is closed or that the online supplier is out of stock and be forced to substitute with something that’s not quite what you had in mind.
The same can apply to gifts we give to charity. It’s always easy to drop a check in the mail, but non-cash gifts take some planning. In order to get valuations, receipts, and other necessary elements of a completed gift all lined up before the end of the year, you have to plan ahead.
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THREE YOUNG TIMOTHIES PREACH AT LITTLETON CHURCH
By Jon Roberts – Littleton, Colorado … “God is the One,” was the message presented by three young preachers to the Littleton congregation, highlighting the value of all generations, especially the youth.
Coinciding with the ongoing sermon series, “Will You Fight the Good Fight?” based on 2nd Timothy, three young adults presented short messages on Chapter 2 of the book.
“These young fighters didn’t just speak today. They powerfully preached 2 Timothy 2 verse by verse,” Andy Nash, lead pastor at Littleton said. He went on by calling them modern day Timothys referring to the biblical Timothy’s young age when he preached the gospel
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“CHOPPED” BRIGHTON ADVENTIST ACADEMY STYLE
By Melissa Hoos with Alana Hill – Brighton, Colorado …How do you successfully hold a school fundraiser when we can’t gather together in large groups? Of course, you host a version of the television show “Chopped” online.
Typically, one Saturday evening in October, the Brighton school holds Fall Festival with food, games, and socializing as an annual fundraiser. This year, that would not be an option. After brainstorming, parents Melissa Hoos and Alana Hill came up with a simplified version of the Food Network show, “Chopped.”
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ALTER-EGOS ON DISPLAY AT CAMPION
By Jayce Treat – Loveland, Colorado … Campion sophomores lived out their English assignment by trying to be someone they were not for a day.
Students changed their styles for a fun alter-ego project based on the play, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” They were tasked with creating an “alter ego” of themselves, and then dressing up and acting as that person for the day.
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FREE FROM THE PIT
By Karen Fettig – Manderson, Wyoming … Sheyenne was missing, and we went looking for her only to find her stuck in a hole of soupy mud. We worked feverishly to free her, pulling brush out with the tractor, paying no mind to the thorns gouging our hands as we ran the log chain around the brush. She fought and fought but the mud held her fast.
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