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Mountain View Conference

News from the Mountain View Conference, which includes West Virginia & a small part of Maryland

In 2006 Basil Bennett, a Charleston (W.Va.) church member, underwent coronary bypass surgery. To help his health, he gave up eggs and ate only lean meat. But, in spite of his new “healthy” diet, he continued gaining weight, had high cholesterol and blood pressure, an irregular heartbeat and medication-induced neuropathy.

Story by Valerie Morikone, Photo by Monica Zill

Each fall Mountain View Conference schools take their students (grades K-12) to Valley Vista Adventist Center in Huttonsville, W.Va., to enjoy a day focused on math and science. In this photo, Reagan Moore and Isis Barreto-Tellez, students from Parkersburg Academy in Parkersburg, W.Va., enjoy a game about telling time.