November 2004

The Bethel Brethren Church, located at 718 East Main Street, Berne, Indiana, will host a three-day Bible prophecy conference beginning Sun., Nov. 28, with evangelist Mike Wingfield of Roanoke, Virginia as guest speaker. Wingfield is a 1975 Master of Divinity graduate of Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Ind. and has 33 years of ministry […]

Dr. Tim Sanborn, of the Grace College music faculty, was trombone soloist for the college’s Sousa concert by the wind ensemble over this past weekend. (Al Disbro photo)

The Grace College Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Martin Becker, played a concert of Sousa numbers over the weekend. Supplemented with a few community and professional players, the ensemble played a wide selection of marches and other numbers by Sousa and Percy Grainger. One of the ensemble’s tuba players, David Sanborn, had played under

Tonight in Los Angeles, Billy Graham, 86, returns to the Rose Bowl to begin a crusade that will have 20,000 volunteers from over 1,200 churches representing 95 denominations working together in the four-day crusade slated for November 18-21. It was 55 years ago, in 1949, that a young Billy Graham preached a tent revival in

Kary Oberbrunner, student ministries pastor at the Powell, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church, today announced a national conference for 20-somethings to be held on the campus of Kenyon College, about an hour from Columbus, OH, the dates of June 15-18, 2005. Aimed at young people ages 19-29, the conference will seek to better connect and motivate

ROBERT GORDON, 93, a major benefactor of Grace College and Seminary and the father of Grace College business professor Bill Gordon, went to be with the Lord on November 16. Mr. Gordon and his wife, Frances, have been faithful friends of Grace and generous donors to the campus for many years. They donated fund to

Today I spent the morning with the Southern Ohio district ministerium. We were discussing the BMH webpages (fgbcworld.com and bmhbooks.com) and one of them made an excellent suggestion. “Show us how to make the Blog our home page,” he suggested, indicating that one is much more likely to read it regularly if it pops up

Six Grace Theological Seminary faculty members, along a number of other theologians with Grace Brethren connections are attending the 56th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in San Antonio, Texas, this week. The meeting, which begins Wednesday, November 17 and concludes Friday noon, is centered around the theme “What is Truth?” Thursday morning several

Jerry Polman, a recent Grace College graduate now teaching public school music in northern Indiana, was one of four featured soloists in Friday evening’s Grace Community Orchestra and Festival Chorus presentation of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Grace Prof. Ardis Faber directed the production, which was held in the Rodeheaver auditorium. (Al Disbro photo)

Ashland University (formerly Ashland College) played a key role in the history of Grace College and Seminary and of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. It was a group of Ashland faculty members–including Drs. Herman Hoyt and Alva J. McClain–who parted company with the Ohio school in the late 1930s and founded what is now