July 2004

An enthusiastic youth choir opened the 2004 Brethren National Youth Conference in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, at the 6:15 p.m. session Saturday evening, July 17. Other music in the session was by Todd Proctor and Waiting for Iris. 

Last day in Winona Lake for awhile—your Intrepid Blogger takes off in the morning for Brethren National Youth Conference in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Posts from here on will contain photos and reports of what’s happening with 2,300 teenagers at BNYC. In LaCrosse we’ll be teaching young journalists seminars on writing, photography, website content, and how to

In just a few days, Grace Brethren will be gathering in LaCrosse, Wisconsin (youth) and Kingsport, Tennessee (adults) for our annual national conferences. As I read the current blog of columnist and friend Terry Mattingly, I wondered about the values and directions that we Grace Brethren express and experience. To stimulate our thinking, here is

On a picture-perfect summer afternoon, members and friends of Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church gathered at the lakeside home of Mike and Becky Grill for a service of believer’s baptism Sunday, July 11.  

Bruce Barlow, Associate Pastor of Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church, baptized a number of believers by triune immersion off Rainbow Point in Winona Lake on Sunday, July 11.  

Sherwood Lingenfelter, president of the Grace Brethren International Missions (GBIM) board and Professor and Provost/Senior Vice President of Fuller Theological Seminary in California, is teaching the morning sessions at the GBIM “Family Reunion” this week. About 45 stateside missionaries, along with board members and some GBIM staff, are participating in the weeklong meetings. Lingenfelter’s wife,

This week’s column by a good friend, Jim Dahlman, who teaches journalism at Milligan College in Tennessee and writes weekly for his local paper, raises a good issue. In it he quotes Vic Young, pastor of “The Biker Church” which will be hosting the FGBC later this month when Celebration Conference convenes in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Chet Kammerer, former basketball standout and coach at Grace College who now works with the NBA as a scout and in player development, was present Saturday to tell anecdotes and give tribute to his former coach and colleague, Lloyd Woolman. Woolman, now retired and living in Everett, Washington, was honored by many of his former

Terry Eichorst (standing), now in the insurance business in Houston, was one of Lloyd Woolman’s former soccer players who returned to the Grace campus this weekend to honor the former coach, who is seated, at left. Woolman’s son, Gary (white shirt), is seated at right. Eichorst presented Woolman with several cans of Steed additive (on