Katrina First Responders Dave Guiles (left), Jay Bell (right) and Dan O’Deens (center) are now assessing steps necessary to have the Fellowship better positioned for coordinated response to national disasters. A detailed first-person report from Dan O’Deens follows.
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Pastor Dan O’Deens of Gateway Community Church in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, played a key role from the start in the Grace Brethren response to Hurricane Katrina. As our “point man on the ground,” he recruited, trained, and deployed managers recruited from all over the Fellowship. This is an edited version of a first-person report he recently
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Author M. Scott Peck, who wrote the best-seller “The Road Less Traveled” and other books, died Sunday. He was 69. Peck died at his home in Connecticut, longtime friend and Los Angeles publicist Michael Levine said. He had suffered from pancreatic and liver duct cancer. Born in New York City,
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Here is a report from Mike Mason, of thequest church in Columbus, Ohio (Mike Jentes, pastor), about his recent ministry with fellow church member Larry Totzke in Shreveport, Louisiana. We went for about nine days and we worked quite a bit. Most of our team of Grace Brethren people were in some kind of leadership
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An important new book on the need for prayer in counseling, entitled Transformed In His Presence, has just been released by BMH Books of Winona Lake, IN. Written by Roger Peugh and Tammy Schultz of the Grace College and Seminary faculty, the book fills a much-needed gap in the training and practice of Christian counselors.
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This story, about last year’s standout football player from Grace Brethren High in Simi Valley, California, appeared this weekend in the Ventura (CA) County Star. Brethren High is affiliated with the Grace Brethren Church of Simi Valley, John McIntosh, pastor. Blessing in disguise Chad Kackert feels fortunate he will get a chance to play in
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Carmen Franchino, of the Peninsula Grace Brethren Church in Soldotna, Alaska, has called to our attention the following article on an outstanding young Christian athlete from the Peninsula church. The article appeared in the Clarion newspaper on Tuesday (Clarion photo). Pfaffe leads SoHi football By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion Faith and singing have always come
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Just a quick reminder that official registration for the Evangelists’ Gathering in Columbus, to be held October 7-9, closes this Monday, September 26. For more information and registration instructions, click here>
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Mike Jentes, Grace Brethren church planter with thequest in Columbus, Ohio, in his weekly e-newsletter has called our attention to the story of one of our Grace Brethren house church pastors in California whose dramatic life-story has recently been published in a book by Felicity Dale entitled “An Army of Ordinary People.” Here is an
Dr. Mark Soto (pictured), professor of biblical studies at Grace College and Seminary, will this weekend present a series of seminars at the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Grace Brethren Church (Gary Austin, pastor). The series is entitled “A STUDY IN LIFE AND DEATH IN AMERICA 2005,” and Austin says, “He has prepared some notes that really
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