2004

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

Grace Professor Steve Grill, an expert in the history of Winona Lake and head of the Reneker Museum of Winona History, led walking tours Saturday morning during the Grace Alumni gathering. Here, on the steps of the Beyer Home overlooking the former site of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle, Grill explains the significance of the Beyer

Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life has won the prestigious Book of the Year award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). This year 471 books from 58 publishers were entered into the Gold Medallion Awards competition, which is judged by a panel that includes bookstore owners, managers, buyers, editors and book reviewers. The judges selected

A little Milhaud with your coffee? While MasterWorks festival is in town, several performances a day by students occur around the Village of Winona. Here a woodwind quintet plays a Milhaud piece Wednesday afternoon on the porch of the Clock Tower Bakery on Park Avenue. MasterWorks is a joint project of the Village at Winona,

This recent “Sightings” column alerts us to some issues regarding privacy and church discipline. Confidences — Duane R. Bidwell A minister who is licensed by the state of Texas as a mental-health professional cannot claim First Amendment protections for a breach of confidentiality, a Texas appeals court has ruled. The case alleges that Fort Worth

Dr. Randy Smith, pastor of the Sebring FL Grace Brethren Church, taught seminars in Winona Lake over the weekend and revealed plans by the Sebring Church to begin an intensive one-year Bible institute program in conjunction with the church and its ministry.