(from the Christian Booksellers Association e-newsletter): Larry Hair, director of retail stores at Christian Publications for nearly 32 years, passed away late last week from complications resulting from surgery. The memory of Larry’s life on earth was celebrated on May 21, at Hope Grace Brethren Church in Dillsburg, PA (George Traub, pastor). Please remember in […]
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“Studies in Mark,” the newly-rewritten and expanded commentary on the Gospel of Mark by Dr. Homer Kent, Jr., is now available for purchase online at www.bmhbooks.com. The 248-page commentary is the first of a 15-volume matched set BMH is producing entitled The Kent Collection. Cost is $14.99.
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Dr. K Marie Stolba, an internationally-acclaimed musicologist, music historian, violinist, music educator and composer who taught music at Grace College in the 1970s, died Wednesday, May 18 in Fort Wayne, IN. A professor emerita of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, she had also served as a visiting professor and lecturer at universities and musicologists meetings
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Eugene Habecker, who for the past 14 years has been the president of the American Bible Society in New York City, has been named president of Taylor University in Indiana. Habecker, a 1968 Taylor grad, replaces David Gyertson, who is returning to a faculty position at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, an institution he
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Let me introduce you to just a few of the wonderful people I’ve spent this past week with, taking a course in the ACTS church-planting strategy from Dave Guiles of Grace Brethren International Missions. Please…take a few moments and pray for each of these if you are so led. Rich and Jill Elledge, pictured here,
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Kirk and Kay Carver are from the Calvert County (MD) Grace Brethren Church (Robert Wagner, pastor). They have spent some short-term missions time in the Czech Republic and are looking to where the Lord may want them to serve. Kay is a massage therapist and Kirk is a chiropractor, currently doing graduate studies at Capitol
Carlos Peralta, an Argentine native now planting a Hispanic church in Coatesville, PA, is doing so under the sponsorship and guidance of Gateway Grace Community Church (Dan O’Deens, pastor). Carlos’ congregation, Encuentro Latino, is currently averaging about 80 in Sunday morning services–last Lord’s Day 100 were in attendance.
Jason Weimer (left) from the Waterloo, Iowa, Grace Brethren Church (Kelvin Cooke, pastor) will soon be leaving with his wife, Doni, for a year in the Philippines, helping to plant churches. Viseth Hou (right) is a Cambodian who has been very successful as an evangelist and church-planter and Campus Crusade staff member. He is currently
Jay and Deb Hocking will soon be leaving Indiana to spend 15 months in France as host couple at the Chateau St. Alban. Jay has been working in media and information technology at the Grace Brethren International Missions headquarters in Winona Lake, IN, and they are members of the Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church (John
