January 2005

“Driven,” the new national conference for young adults to be held June 15-18, has debuted a new website containing program, schedule, and registration information. To be held near Columbus, OH, the conference is designed to call and equip those in the years 19-29, which have often been branded as the “Lost Decade.” DRIVEN was set […]

Grace Brethren Chaplain James Schaefer, serving with his troops in Afghanistan, sent this message from one of his troops, Edward Leyshon, explaining the naming of the PFC Jerrod Dennis Combat Hospital, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Here is a slightly-edited version of soldier Leyshon’s explanation. (photo courtesy James Schaefer) On April 25, 2003 there was a major

Grace Brethren International Mission’s Ted Rondeau (right) surveys flood damage and the search for additional missing people during a recent tour of the tsunami-damaged area of southeast Thailand. GBIM’s Wayne Hannah will leave next week for a “setup trip” to scout and coordinate ways in which Grace Brethren personnel and relief funds may best be

Marysville, OH, Grace Brethren Church, which meets at Navin Elementary, 16265 County Home Rd., Marysville, Ohio, will be hosting an evening of worship with Jeremiah & Marcie Olson and ‘40 miles north,’ a grassroots soulful acoustic rock duo. The Olsons are worship leaders at Grace Community Church in Goshen, Indiana, (Jim Brown, pastor) and have

‘Blue Monday’ most depressing of 2005 A psychologist has predicted that today is the most depressing day of 2005. Cardiff University’s Cliff Arnalls used a complicated mathematical formula to calculate that January 24 is truly a “Blue Monday”. He said fading memories of Christmas, mounting debts, poor weather, failed New Year resolutions and the long,

Intervarsity Christian Fellowship recently announced it would no longer host the Urbana conference at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Though the Urban-Champaign facilities had served the Intervarsity Fellowship well for 50 years, the growing number of participants each year has strained available resources and space needed to conduct the conference successfully. St. Louis, the

Ron Boehm, Midwest Regional Career Missionary with Grace Brethren North American Missions, sends the following report (at our request) of the Church Planter’s Assessment just completed today in Chambersburg, PA. Ron reports: We had eight that were assessed. We started the process Thursday afternoon and planned to finish by 1 p.m. Saturday, but when we

Prayer is requested for these nine potential church-planter family units who just today concluded a Church Planter’s Assessment process in Chambersburg, PA. (photos courtesy Ron Boehm) 

The following article, written and distributed by Baptist Press of the Southern Baptist Convention, accurately and succinctly portrays what many Grace Brethren leaders believe to be a proper and biblical perspective on the southeast Asia tsunami disasters. Along with the succeeding article on Grace Brethren tsunami response, you are encouraged to thoughtfully and prayerfully read

Upon hearing of the post-Christmas tsunami disaster in southeast Asia, Grace Brethren churches and people everywhere felt an immediate impulse to respond with God’s love. “Can we go over there and help?” “Where can I send donations?” “What is really needed?” “Do our Grace Brethren churches have any coordinated response effort to help?” These were