October 2005

Only a few bricks and a crumbling foundation remain of the venerable “Health Center” on Wooster Road on the Grace College and Seminary campus in Winona Lake, Indiana. The facility, used for student housing as far back as the 1960s and more recently for student health services, was demolished this week to make way for […]

There are church planters in your church, and you might be one of them! Grace Brethren North American Missions is offering a free preliminary assessment of church-planting potential. This very brief assessment is part of a battery of assessments, interviews and training that we use to identify, train and coach North American church-planters. The 16

Galen Wiley sends along the following recommendations which were passed yesterday at the North Atlantic Fellowship Examining Board meeting at Frankford church in Philadelphia. Congratulations to all these men and churches! * We unanimously and heartily recommend Steve Galegor to the Penn Valley Church of Telford, Pennsylvania, for licensure to the pastoral ministry. We commend

A newly-revised and updated commentary on the Epistle of James by Dr. Homer A. Kent, Jr., has just been released by BMH Books of Winona Lake, Indiana. The 201-page trade paperback is the third in The Kent Collection, a project to update and re-issue the commentaries on 15 New Testament books written by the former

Zondervan Publishers has launched a free Internet-based Bible search tool at www.zondervanbiblesearch.com. The web site provides Internet users with eight Bible translations: TNIV, NIV, Amplified Bible, NASB Updated, NIRV, KJV, KJV Apocrypha, Darby Bible and the ASV. Other translations will be included as they become available.

Pastor Peter Smith of Hope Valley Community Church in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, has now returned from leading a multi-church relief team to the hurricane region. Here is his wrapup report: Thanks so much for your prayers—they made a huge difference. We could feel the prayers covering us and protecting us every day. It is hard

Kurt Miller of Grace Brethren North American Missions led the meetings of the Evangelists’ Gathering this weekend in Columbus, Ohio. A very nice photo album with captions, photos by Ron Bohem, may be seen at http://homepage.mac.com/midwest_ron/GBNAM/PhotoAlbum14.html 

For the past three years, Calvary Brethren Church of Hagerstown, Maryland, (Doug Courter, pastor) has at this time of the year used cardboard and other materials to construct on the church property an “Amazing Maze” which the church uses as an outreach. Here is an edited version of Calvary’s website account of this year’s Maze,

A group of about 40 gifted evangelists from the FGBC began meeting this evening in Columbus, Ohio, and for several days they will share testimonies, motivation, best-practices, and will discuss God’s call to our Fellowship to reach out to unbelievers. Brethren Missionary Herald Company has provided to each one attending the meeting a free copy