April 2005

Portions of the Raleigh church’s new building were used for the first time this past Sunday. Mike Lee is pastor, and the Hope Community Church of Raleigh hosted the pastors who met there Monday and Tuesday to discuss church planting. (Ed Trenner photo) 

A second group of about 30 pastors met in Columbus, OH on Thursday for a Micropolitan Church-Planting Summit. This group focused specifically on church-planting in non-metropolitan communities of about 10,000 to 50,000 in population. Speakers included Ron Boehm and Terry Hofecker. 

Tony Webb, pastor of the Southwest Grace Brethren Church in Columbus, OH (Grove City), was the convener and the host for Thursday’s Micropolitan church-planter summit. His church not only provided meeting room and materials, but a delicious lunch and snack breaks as well. 

(BP)President Bush and Vice President Cheney are setting an example for the nation by giving at least 10 percent of their income to churches and charitable organizations. Tax information released April 15 by the White House indicates Bush and his wife, Laura, paid $207,307 in federal income taxes on taxable income of $672,788 in 2004.

Today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union newspaper features the current work of former GBIM missionary Jim Hocking in Africa. Here is the story, as written by one of the paper’s staff writers: BY DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer Orphans, AIDS, clean water, enterprise and mass communication. They’re the big issues Integrated Community Development International is taking on

If you live in the Midwest and want an educational, inspirational half-day with lasting value, we suggest you consider visiting the Behalt Interpretive Center near Berlin, Ohio, about a half-hour south of Wooster. A free 15-minute video is available on the history of the Anabaptist (rebaptizer, so named for instituting baptism of adult believers, rather

This is but one scene, depicting an adult baptism in 1525, from the 265-foot, 10-foot tall cyclorama painting by Heinz Gaugel at the Behalt interpretive center near Berlin, Ohio. An Amish guide traces the history of Anabaptism and its branches (including the Brethren) in an hour-long tour around the massive painting. 

CHARLOTTE, NC (ANS) — In the latest stage of the organization’s growth that began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, more that 50 years ago, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) will celebrate the opening of its new home in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a special dedication ceremony. (Pictured: Franklin and Billy Graham). Some four years after announcing

Grace Brethren North American Missions (GBNAM) and the Editions Cle publishing house have put together an excellent project so that individuals, churches, Sunday School classes and others can provide a 16-book library for French-speaking pastors in Haiti and among Haitians in Florida. The cost of one set of 16 books is $100, and the deadline

Today was a sad day for generations of Grace College and Seminary students as a local icon in the Warsaw/Winona Lake (IN) area bit the dust. “The Flagpole,” a well-known ice cream shop on East Winona Avenue that dates at least back into the 1950s was torn down today to make room for an office