Spiritual Life Events
Chapel
Every week, our students and staff gather for worship and reflection, creating a space to explore the bigger spiritual questions young people ask. While attendance is required, students are often eager to participate, as many help plan and lead the programming. It’s inspiring to see students leading worship and sharing heartfelt reflections on their walk with God. We are also blessed to welcome local pastors who regularly share messages that encourage and challenge our community.
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Chapel helps students grow in faith, leadership, and spiritual understanding, fostering a deeper connection with God and with each other as they navigate their high school journey.
Community Vespers
Attendance at our Friday evening events is optional, but they are some of the most popular and well-supported by parents. Once a month, our Campus Ministries team organizes a gathering for students in a family home or on campus, providing a relaxed setting for fellowship. These informal events often include refreshments, singing, fun, and small group discussions, giving students a chance to connect in meaningful ways.
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Community Vespers helps students build friendships, deepen their faith, and grow in community, creating a space where they can reflect, share, and support one another in their spiritual journey.
Fusion
Our partnerships with local churches are very important to us. Through Fusion, we collaborate with a local church to host a Friday night vespers at their site, helping students stay connected to their church community. These informal gatherings often include refreshments, singing, fun, and an encouraging message geared toward teens. Fusion events take place about once a semester, depending on church and pastor availability.
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Fusion provides students with a chance to strengthen their faith, build relationships with local church leaders, and grow spiritually in a welcoming, supportive environment.
Bible Camp
Bible Camp is a yearly highlight for many of our students, sponsored by the Youth Ministries Department of the Oregon Conference of SDA. Over 500 high school students from Oregon and Washington gather to enjoy worship, recreation, and fellowship. Held at Washington Family Ranch, the camp offers swimming pools, zip lines, bouldering walls, a gymnasium, skate park, and go-karts. Each morning and evening, students gather for worship with inspiring music and special speakers.
While this event does have an additional cost, generous donors help ensure every student can participate, regardless of financial need. Bible Camp allows students to strengthen their faith, build lasting friendships, and grow in courage and community in a fun, spiritually enriching environment.
Weeks of Worship
Each season, PAA hosts a special week of spiritual emphasis, with a chapel service every day. In the fall, a guest speaker leads chapels while students help plan the rest of the program. In the winter, students take the lead entirely, sharing messages and guiding worship each day. In the spring, staff usually present a message during a student-planned chapel.
These weeks are highlights of the school calendar, providing students with opportunities to grow in faith, leadership, and spiritual discernment, while learning to plan, serve, and inspire their peers through meaningful worship experiences.
InsideOut Day
Every spring, all students and staff participate in InsideOut, an area-wide service day. We carefully select meaningful projects where students can learn while serving, discovering local organizations that minister to the community, feed the hungry, care for orphans, and support the sick. InsideOut offers a welcome change of pace during the busy end-of-school season and reminds students to see their own community as a mission field.
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Through InsideOut Day, students grow in compassion, empathy, and a servant’s heart, putting faith into action while making a tangible difference in the lives of others.
Mission Trips
Mission trips at PAA enhance students’ spiritual growth while building relationships with communities and organizations both locally and globally. Students have the opportunity to serve through organizations such as the Smiles Foundation and the International Children's Care, as well as participate in trips locally as well as to Dominican Republic, Mexico, Fiji, Cuba, and Costa Rica, focusing on ministering to orphans, children and supporting community-building efforts.
These experiences help students develop compassion, servant leadership, and a heart for mission, putting their faith into action while learning about the needs of others and the impact of thoughtful, Christ-centered service.