February 2005

Pastor David Mitchell of the Waipio Grace Brethren Church in Mililani, Hawaii, sends along the following urgent prayer request: Our island has been stunned and shocked to hear that 27 of the 31 Marines who died in the helicopter crash in Iraq yesterday came from our Marine base in Kaneohe, located on this island of […]

Tammie Huntington, soprano, sings “Lucy’s Aria” from “The Telephone” by Gian Carlo Menotti as part of the Grace College music department’s faculty recital program this Sunday afternoon at Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church. Also on the program were Judie Meulink, piano; Carol Streator, soprano; Elena Dunegan, clarinet; Dawn Engler, flute; Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh, guitar; and

From today’s Chico, California, Enterprise-Record newspaper: Grace Brethren Church, 355 Panama Ave.: “”The Whys and Hows of Church Growth,” joint session of all adult Bible classes with Tom Avey and Dan Allan; 10 a.m. “It’s All About Grace,” from Dan Allan, moderator for Grace Brethren Churches, Winona Lake, Ind.; 11 a.m. “Power-Power-Power,” from the Rev.

Dr. Michael J. Easley, the new president of Moody Bible Institute, and his wife, Cindy.

Moody Bible Institute of Chicago has named Dr. Michael J. Easley, a twenty-year veteran pastor from Virginia, to succeed Dr. Joseph M. Stowell, who served as MBI’s seventh president for 18 years and concludes his tenure on Feb. 28, 2005 The 119-year old Moody Bible Institute (MBI) named Easley, 47, its eighth president on February

Approximately 25 of the FGBC’s top leadership people–including moderators, elected representatives and national organization representatives–are meeting yesterday, today and tomorrow in Sacramento, CA, to discuss current priorities, strategic directions for the future, and much more. Three new Fellowship Council members are attending their first meeting — Robert MacMillan from Tracy, CA; Dan Gregory from Columbia

River City Grace Community Church of Sacramento, CA (Greg Stoever, pastor) is hosting the FGBC’s Fellowship Council three-day meeting, now in progress. Today, Friday, part of the agenda was hearing brief reports from a number of the national organizations affiliated with the FGBC. 

Kurt Miller, director of church planting for Grace Brethren North American Missions, presented a stimulating and challenging report on the urgency of increasing church-planting on the part of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches.  

Stacey Mayne (left) and Davada Irons (right) of Thurmont, MD, clap along with the Hagerstown Grace Brethren Praise Band at In God’s Hand Coffeehouse in Thurmont. A story in today’s local paper marks the one-year anniversary of the coffee house. (Gazette photo) Here are several selected paragraphs from the story. To read the entire article

The Blog has carried several stories this past month about Chad Kackert, the standout running back from Grace Brethren High School in Simi Valley, CA. This week it was announced that Kackert has accepted an offer from University of New Hampshire coach Sean McDonnell to play at UNH. Here is the announcement from the UNH