January 2006

Your prayers are requested for veteran GBIM missionary to Africa Roy Snyder, shown here with his wife, Ruth. Roy will undergo quadruple bypass surgery tomorrow, Wednesday, at 6:30 am in Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Snyders served 35 years with GBIM in Central African Republic, and are now living at Grace Village and […]

Dr. George Bullard, a Southern Baptist church growth expert whom the FGBC has used as a resource on a number of occasions, is this week featuring the Raleigh, NC, Grace Brethren congregation on his weblog. Reproduced here by permission is his report–quotes about the church are taken from its website. A View from the Congregation:

Sandy Barrett, who works with Tom Avey in the Fellowship Coordinator’s office, reports having talked with Tom’s wife, Sandi, in California at about 3:30 p.m. Monday, Winona Lake, IN, time. The word is that Tom is now out of ICU after his quadruple bypass operation, has been “unhooked from all machines,” and has begun eating.

The following report was received from Dr. Francois Ngoumape in the Central African Republic this morning: This is a very encouraging time for us this week after the [national] conference. I went to meet Gert [Puhl] and Wilfried [Dengler] in Bangui. Their flight was delayed several times, but finally they arrived Sunday afternoon, and we

A Total Mobilization Support Ministries team has been ministering in Sisophon, Cambodia, January 8-25, and is just about to conclude its ministry and return home. The team is made up of 30 people from seven churches including California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri and Canada. Lititz, PA, Pastor Scott Distler included the following update today in

Longtime Grace Brethren pastor Bob Kliewer, who is currently part of the Cherry Valley Grace Brethren Church in Beaumont, California, has been in severely declining health lately, primarily with issues relating to his heart. Pastor Roy Halberg of the Alta Loma church has been visiting him regularly, sending health updates. So that you may pray

Pastor Charles Ashman sent along this update on Tom Avey’s heart surgery late Sunday afternoon: The surgery on Tom is complete and he will be in the ICU in the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA. I just received the word and it did turn out to be a quadruple bypass. The doctor said

Late word received Saturday afternoon through Pastor Charles Ashman is that Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey is scheduled for bypass surgery tomorrow morning (Sunday, January 22) at 7:30 a.m. California time. Doctors have told him the surgery will be about 2 1/2 hours in length, and he will then need to spend 3-4 days in the

Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey, who suffered chest pains on Friday while checking out the site of next summer’s Celebration06 national conference in southern California, has been hospitalized, is undergoing tests, and may have to face surgery. Avey is currently in the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA, the same facility where former president Gerald

This week we received the following unsolicited review of Ed Jackson’s self-published book, Faith Stranger Than Fiction, a 342-page paperback published in 2004, from Pastor Jim Franklin of the Flora, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church. Here is Pastor Jim’s review: Recently this writer had the pleasure of receiving a copy of Ed Jackson’s Faith Stranger than