October 2004

Billy Graham’s message still clear despite his age & diminished voice By Bob Baysinger KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–There wasn’t much power in Billy Graham’s voice at the opening night of the Heart of America Billy Graham Crusade in Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium, but that didn’t stop the 85-year-old Southern Baptist evangelist from preaching a powerful […]

In an earlier entry (October 3) we told you about some of the Grace Brethren leaders who were attending the Lausanne Evangelism conference in Thailand. This release from Baptist Press on that meeting should stimulate some thinking about the four billion oral learners who will likely not hear of Christ by the traditional means. Reaching

The immediate neighborhood of the Sebring, Florida, Grace Brethren Church was left in shambles after Hurricane Jeanne. Pastor Randy Smith says, “Without a doubt this has been a challenge, but one our folks at Sebring have risen to! We have had greater opportunity to minister than at any time in my life.”

Post-Hurricane Jeanne, this is the back yard of Pastor Randy Smith of the Sebring, Florida Grace Brethren Church.  

The youth center of the Sebring, Florida, Grace Brethren Church as it appeared in the aftermath of Hurricane Jeanne. Anyone wishing to help with labor, prayer or funds can call 888-880-8538. 

Dr. Randy Smith, pastor of the Sebring, Florida, Grace Brethren Church, sends these photos of the damage Hurricane Jeanne did to the church’s youth center. “She left us without a youth center roof,” he writes, “and with a thoroughly soaked building at the Bible Institute.” He indicates that crews have been working tirelessly to aid

A live webcam at the Johnson Ridge observatory, about five miles from the crater of Mount St. Helens, is available online. A new image is automatically posted about every five minutes. To see the webcam, click here: http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

Grace Brethren Church of Worthington (Columbus), Ohio, (Jim Custer, pastor) celebrated its 40th anniversary with a series of events last weekend. Here is an article from Suburban Newspapers describing the event: Grace Brethren Celebrates 40 Years By SCOTT TAKAC Grace Brethren Church of Worthington marked four decades in the community last weekend with an anniversary

Dave Guiles, Grace Brethren International Mission’s executive director, Mike Yoder, GBIM missionary to Germany, and Jorge Nunez, national church leader in Argentina, are representing the FGBC at the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization (Lausanne) in Bangkok, Thailand. Held each decade, the purpose of this encounter is “to examine through unprecedented global inquiry, the trends and

The “Touchpoint Weekend” community service project of the Osceola, IN, Grace Brethren Church was featured in last Wednesday’s South Bend Tribune newspaper. Reproduced here are the first several paragraphs–to read the complete story with photographs click here. Good Samaritans Church members do community service projects By LISA KOCAHNOWSKITribune Correspondent Linda Szuba, of South Bend does