March 2006

Pastor Mitch Cariaga (left) and youth pastor Kevin Ibanez are guiding the Rialto, California, Grace Brethren church into a new era as a “Mosaic” church aimed at reaching a younger audience. The Rialto, CA, Grace Brethren Church was started more than 50 years ago by Art Carey, and under Pastor Gerald Polman the current church

“DRIVEN06,” a second annual conference for young adults will be held June 22-26, 2006, on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and is now open for registration. After a very successful first conference in 2005, planners have titled the 2006 conference “Alert and Oriented.” It centers on helping twenty-somethings answer four questions: 1.

Five core families from California, several relatives from the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, area, and a few new friends met in a residential community clubhouse on Easter Sunday, 1994, for a Bible study. It was the first step in launching a new church. Nearly twelve years later more than 3,500 people gathered in early February, 2006,

By Crystal Ludwig Baseball bats snapped. Frying pans were rolled. Cement blocks were broken. Telephone books were ripped. Hot water bottles were inflated until they burst. A flaming telephone pole was lifted high overhead. And hundreds of people committed their lives to Christ, as a result. Community Grace Brethren Church of Warsaw, IN, hosted the