September 2005

This response came as a “comment” to a previous post. Because those are easy to miss, and because of the positive nature of his report, we reproduce here the comments by Kurt Miller, GBNAM’s national director of church planting, who is currently in Louisiana. As an update, everyone needs to know how wonderful the people […]

Alfred gets a debit card — Praise the Lord! Here is the latest report back to the Goshen, IN, church from their group ministering in Louisiana: We are impacting people’s lives. In the last 24 hours: We helped Patricia find transportation home. This will allow her to reunite with her family and begin a construction

Heather and Miss Paris. 

Jason looks up online help for evacuees. 

Word was received in Winona Lake shortly after noon today of the kidnapping of a key contact with our Grace Brethren work in downtown Baghdad, Iraq. This individual, his wife, his son, and another believer were kidnapped on their return to Iraq from Jordan. He has been a key figure in a developing body of

Hope Community Church, Raleigh, North Carolina (Mike Lee, pastor), is working on several different areas of help for the Hurricane Relief. According to a church spokesman, they have separated the volunteers into Work Relief Teams and Relocation Teams. The Work Relief Teams are being formed to go down to the Gulf area with Samaritan’s Purse

Do you ever wonder what your church looks like to an outsider? Some churches we know, in order to get a good visitor’s perspective, have recruited outsiders (non-believers, non-church-goers) to attend a service and then write a review, which can be quite instructive to church staff and leadership. Recently we came across a church-review website

In what is, to our knowledge, a “first,” a Grace Brethren church is adopting a hurricane-ravaged church in the south for long-term help, assistance, and encouragement. Bruce Barlow, associate pastor of Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren church, announced to the WLGBC congregation in a memo yesterday that the church is partnering with First Baptist Church

According to an Associated Press report this morning, Google has just introduced a specialty search engine which sifts through millions of frequently-updated personal journals called “blogs,” (such as this one), a long-anticipated development which is expected to help propel blogging even further into the cultural mainstream. The new tool, unveiled Wednesday at http://blogsearch.google.com, focuses exclusively

This update is from Chris Erb in Biloxi, Mississippi, who is with part of the group from the Goshen, Indiana, church. He is reporting to the other part of the group, who is with Pastor Jim Brown in Mobile. We arrived safely in Mobile at 7:30 Sunday night. Mitch and Ben had gone down to