December 2004

Simi Valley’s Grace Brethren team clinched its division championship this year with a 13-1-0 record. 

Players and cheerleaders from Grace Brethren High in Simi Valley, CA, were featured on local television following Monday Night Football this week. 

Simi Valley cheerleaders pose for TV cameras following Brethren High’s championship season. 

David Jeremiah, Grace Seminary alumnus, debuts his Baptist Press column this week with thoughts on God’s “Very Best” present. 

Grace Seminary alumnus David Jeremiah has recently joined Baptist Press as a columnist. Jeremiah is senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, Calif., and has been featured on the “Turning Point” radio and television ministry since its launch in 1982. Here are excerpts from his first BP column: God Sent the Very

Pastor John McIntosh of the Simi Valley, Grace Brethren Church, has notified FGBC World that Grace Brethren High School football coach Terry Gourley has been named the 2004 ABC7/National Football League’s High School Coach of the Year for the Southern California Region. This is in addition to a previous award as Coach of the Week.

According to the lead story in this morning’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union newspaper, Grace College has received a grant of nearly $1 million from Lilly Endowment, Inc. as part of Lilly’s initiative to recruit and retain intellectual capital for Indiana higher education institutions. According to Grace’s president, Dr. Ron Manahan, the grant will be used to

Russ and Betty Ogden of Indianapolis request prayer for their son, David, a Grace Brethren pastor in Florida. David is a single parent, having lost his wife to cancer several years ago. We will post updates here as they are available. [UPDATE: Russ and Betty have decided to go to Florida and are leaving 9

About 125 friends, neighbors, and fellow FGBC National Organization employees enjoyed a Holiday Open House this noon at the newly-renovated BMH/FGBC offices on Kings Highway in Winona Lake, IN. A highlight for many of those who attended was the opportunity to greet newly-arrived European missionaries Kip and Mary Cone and Larry and Vicky DeArmey. Those

Tracy Owen (left) and Ken Herman (right) settle some difficult world problems in the conference room during today’s Holiday Open House at the BMH/FGBC offices in Winona Lake.