September 2005

Races and fun planned at Touchpoint event Osceola, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church (Greg Serafino, pastor) is sponsoring its annual Touchpoint Weekend Activities on Saturday and Sunday. The church is hosting a 5K run and 5K walk in the countryside near Baugo Creek on Saturday. Race registration, $15, begins at 8:45 a.m., with the races beginning […]

Los Angeles Home to Most EvangelicalsBaptist Press Contrary to its stereotypical labels like “Godless Hollywood” and “Lost Angeles,” Los Angeles is the metropolitan area with the greatest number of evangelical adults. Its one million faithful Christians are more than those in the New York, Chicago and Boston metropolitan areas combined, according to a study by

Word has been received that Mary Elizabeth Lingenfelter, 87, went home to be with the Lord on Monday, September 19, 2005. Mary was the wife of Homer Lingenfelter, who died in February, 2004. Homer was the founding pastor of the Grace Brethren Church at Everett, Pennsylvania, which was organized in 1951 with 18 charter members.

The Osceola, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church has scheduled an October 9 installation service for its new pastor, Greg Serafino. Paul Mutchler (pictured), pastor of the Lanham, Maryland, Grace Brethren Church, will be the speaker. About Mutchler, Serafino said, “He was my youth pastor here in 1978-1981 and discipled me for those years. He really had

According to a communication from the Grace Brethren Church of Richmond, Virginia (Dave Kennedy, pastor), four individuals from the Richmond church family – Kimberly Yednock, Kerri Misiano, Lonn Butler, and Michael Bowling – have volunteered to join a Hurricane Disaster Relief Team that will be helping people in Gulfport, Mississippi. The team is being led

Twenty-one Grace Brethren International Missions missionaries from four countries (Chad, CAR, Cameroon & USA) will be arriving this weekend, September 24, in Kribi, Cameroon, for GBIM’s first all-Africa missionary conference in decades. PRAY that this time together will be a time of refreshment and inspiration for the team, and that God will grant wisdom and

Today is “See You at the Pole” day at schools across America and around the world. More than two million teens in all 50 states and numerous foreign countries are expected to participate in this year’s event, the theme of which is “PRAY: call 2 me” — based on the scripture Jeremiah 33:3. The national