March 2006

Romans: The Gospel of God’s Grace by Dr. Alva J. McClain has just been reissued by BMH Books in a new “facelift” updated format. The 253-page paperback consists of commentary on the Book of Romans culled from 40 years of teaching notes and edited by Herman A. Hoyt, who succeeded McClain as the president of

Pastor Tim Boal of the Penn Valley Grace Brethren Church in Telford, Pennsylvania, is the incoming moderator of the FGBC and will deliver the moderator’s address on Saturday afternoon, July 29 at Celebrate06 The Grace Brethren national conference returns to the “Celebration” format this summer with its sessions to be held July 29-August 3, 2006,

The Brethren Missionary Herald Company (BMH) was informed on Valentine’s Day, 2006, that Send The Light, the British-based company that has owned and operated the Herald Bookstore in Winona Lake for the past four years, is closing the store effective April 30, 2006, and is ceasing operations in Winona Lake, Indiana. BMH Executive Director Terry

With the Lord Marguerite Gribble Dunning went home to her Lord on December 28, 2005. Born in Chicago in 1915 to pioneer missionaries in then-French Equatorial Africa, Rev. James and Dr. Florence Gribble, Marguerite spent much of her childhood with loving foster parents John and Hattie Weed in Washington State. Marguerite and her husband, Harold

Ten Years Ago – 1996 About 1000 people, all in some way touched by Ralph’s life, attended a memorial service for Pastor Ralph Colburn. He had served as the first National Youth Director in the Fellowship; had taught an early Bible class in Seal Beach, CA, planted the first GBC in Florida, and served several

Marguerite Gribble Dunning, daughter of pioneering Africa missionaries James and Dr. Florence Gribble, died on December 28, 2005. Her husband, Dr. Harold Dunning, died in 1997. Mrs. Dunning self-published a book of memoirs in 1994 entitled Live in God’s Kindness. A limited number of the books are available for $10 each plus shipping by calling

By Ron Dorner For Christians, it is important to follow biblical principles. Yet, during my years of speaking and counseling believers there is one principle I see frequently violated. The Bible calls it surety; we call it “co-signing.” The dictionary defines it as pledging to make a lender secure against damage or loss. Proverbs warns

If you died tonight, do you know for sure you would go to heaven? This simple but powerful question has confounded many people for ages. But the answer can be a simple, confident “yes.” The Bible says, “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life” (John

BMH Books of Winona Lake, IN, announces the release of the newly-revised and republished edition of The Glory of the Church: Studies in Ephesians by Dr. Homer A. Kent, Jr. The 140-page paperback commentary is part of The Kent Collection, a republishing of Dr. Kent’s entire set of commentaries on 15 books of the New

Tom Avey Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey, while on a site visit in southern California to the facility where Celebrate06 national conference will be held this summer, experienced chest pains and shortness of breath. There was no heart attack, but examination led to a quadruple heart bypass operation the morning of January 22. Avey’s wife, Sandi,