July 2005

Roy Snyder (Africa, retired) and Lisa Triplehorn (Brazil) compared notes. 

“The French Connection” — Tom Julien (left) and Dave Hobert (right), who have both served many years in France, chat with Tom Barlow (England). 

GBIM executive director Dave Guiles was available for individual meetings and to speak to the group. 

Approximately 40 members of the Grace Brethren International Missions staff, missionaries and board members are gathered in Winona Lake, Indiana, this week for the “GBIM Family Reunion 2005.” (Ed Trenner photo) Pastor Bob Combs from Norton, Ohio, is the resource speaker for the week, and Jeremiah Olson from Goshen, Indiana, is leading music and worship.

A gathering for all those gifted in evangelism or with a special passion for evangelism has been set for October 7-9, 2005, at the Grace Brethren Church of Worthington (Columbus), Ohio. According to an announcement on the Grace Brethren North American Missions website, “We need to honor and network the evangelists in the Grace Brethren

First we party, then we have BNYC. CE National’s Ed Lewis and crew leave this morning for Cedarville University in Ohio, where Brethren National Youth Conference begins Saturday. Some 2,500 teens from across America and other parts of the world are expected to attend. YIB (Your Intrepid Blogger) will be reporting by text and photo

“Oh my word!!” exclaims CE National executive director Ed Lewis, who was lured into a surprise birthday party last evening at the BoatHouse Restaurant on Winona Lake in Indiana. At right is Tim Kurtaneck (T.K.), who is on the CE National staff and directed this summer’s Operation Barnabas teams. 

Jay and Deb Hocking leave this weekend for France–read below about the creative way they reached their fund-raising goal! Jay, son of former GBIM missionary to Africa Jim Hocking, has been working at Grace Brethren International Missions in tech support areas. 

Jay and Debbie Hocking, who are planning to spend at least a year as short-term missionary hosts at the Chateau St. Albain in France, relieving Marlin and Sue Weaver, went “over the top” with an art sale of their jewelry and photographs over the weekend. Displaying and selling their artwork in the lobby of the

Dorothy Arenobine, long-time member of the Valley Grace Brethren Church in Hagerstown, MD, and the mother of Fort Wayne Grace Brethren Church Pastor Bob Arenobine, went to be with the Lord Monday. Pastor Bob has been at the Fort Wayne church for 25 years, and he also serves as a board member and secretary of