March 2005

GBIM board member Miriam Pacheco this weekend concludes six weeks of ministry in the Central African Republic with GBIM missionary Barb Wooler. Here is an edited version of her final report: This will be the last update from me in CAR. We made our fourth visit of this month to the established orphan care group […]

“Just For You” was the title of the musical drama produced for Columbus, OH, area residents this past weekend by the Grace Brethren Church of Worthington, OH. (dress rehearsal photos by Liz Cutler Gates) 

The backstage orchestra, directed by Arts and Media Director Randy Kettering, gets a view that the audience never sees. 

Most Grace Brethren churches this Easter week are observing the threefold communion service that is one of the distinctives of the Grace Brethren movement. Based on scripture, the communion service includes footwashing, the fellowship supper, and the bread and the cup. Pastor Scott Distler of the Lititz, PA, Grace Brethren Church, shares this response from

Word has been received in Winona Lake of the death, at 9:40 a.m. today, of Elener Norris Grossman, who taught journalism and English and advised publications at Grace College for a number of years. Mrs. Grossman, who had been fighting cancer for several years, died in Tennessee. In recent years she and her husband, Gil,

Pastor Kary Oberbrunner of the “Driven” conference committee sends along this urgent reminder of a registration deadline for the Twenty-Somethings conference, to be held on the campus of Kenyon College in Ohio this June 15-18. We are pleased to announce the tremendous support from the national organizations regarding our first-ever national young adult conference DRIVEN.

The Terri Schiavo case in Florida is giving some Christian spokespersons opportunity to comment in the media on this issue which has biblical and ethical implications. This morning’s Hagerstown, MD Herald newspaper contains the following quotes from a Grace Brethren pastor: Pastor Dean P. Pryor of Hagerstown Grace Brethren Church said Michael Schiavo gave up

Recent Grace College art graduate Sarah Pratt (left) and Grace College Art Department chair Prof. Art Davis (right) display several of the illustrations Sarah has done for a forthcoming BMH Book entitled “Heroes Who Live On, Vol. 2.” The illustrations shown here are of Dr. Orville Jobson and of Frances and W.A. Ogden. The Grace

Shawn McBride, pastor of New life Community Church in the Washington, D.C. area, is one of the speakers for this week’s ‘Youth Emphasis Week’ at Grace College in Winona Lake, IN, sponsored by CENational, The National Institute, and Grace College. The week focuses on drawing attention to the importance of youth and youth ministry. Special

FGBC pastor Chuck Winter (Sunnyside, Washington) sends along this invitation to anyone interested in amateur radio: Grace Brethren amateur radio operators are invited to join other Christian hams on a daily 20 meter Fellowship net. The net is sponsored by the ARMS Christian Fellowship Group, formerly the Amateur Radio Missionary Service Fellowship. This world-wide net