April 2006

Rick VanPuffelen, of the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church, has sent this prayer request for one of his relatives, a senior at Taylor University, who was critically injured in the Taylor U. van crash Wednesday evening (see earlier blog entry — Marion Chronicle Tribune photo). “You have all probably heard of the tragic accident […]

More than 500 people from eight Grace Brethren churches in central Ohio joined together this evening for a “Night of Praise” held at the Delaware, OH, Grace Brethren Church beginning at 6:30 p.m. Delaware pastor Gary Underwood was emcee for the evening. A special point of praise was the story of the recent planting of

The “Night of Praise” evening at the Delaware church closed with a great 150-plus voice choir singing “Be Thou My Vision” directed by Randy Kettering of the Worthington, OH, Grace Brethren Church and by Brian Blackburn, worship pastor at the Delaware Grace Brethren Church. 

Brethren National Youth Conference will be held on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg in 2007, according to an announcement today from CE National and the BNYC Executive Committee. The dates will be July 21-27, 2007. This will be the first time the conference has been in Mississippi. BNYC Committee members

The May/June, 2006 issue of FGBC World, the all-Fellowship news publication of the FGBC, should by now have arrived in churches and at the homes of individual subscribers. To read the online version, click on www.fgbcworld.com. Here is some promotional copy for your use in church bulletins, newsletters, websites, in letting your church know it’s

All classes are cancelled today at the Fort Wayne and Upland, IN, campuses of Taylor University after a horrific van crash on I69 near Marion, IN, took the lives of five Taylor students and employees Wednesday evening. A prayer vigil on the Taylor campus was scheduled for 9 a.m. today with a memorial service at

President George Bush and the governors of all 50 states have proclaimed Thursday, May 4 to be the 55th Annual National Day of Prayer in the U.S. Millions will answer the call to prayer that day by flocking to observances held in public venues to pray for the nation, governmental leaders, media, churches, families and

ASHLAND, Ohio -Ashland University has named Dr. John Shultz as the president of Ashland Theological Seminary. Dr. Shultz will begin his duties as ATS president on July 1, replacing Dr. Frederick Finks, who will at that time begin serving as president of Ashland University. Shultz has served as professor of pastoral counseling at Ashland Theological

This prayer request just received from Roger Mayes: Daughters Sharon White and Ruth Ann Mayes request prayer for their father, retired Pastor Victor S. Rogers, who fell off the bottom step of a step ladder on Sunday afternoon at his home. He has been diagnosed with a broken neck. He is in the Menifee Hospital

This photo, taken moments ago by Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey, is of the Grace College student body holding an open-air prayer meeting at the Hillside Amphitheater in Winona Lake, IN, under the direction of campus chaplain James Joyner. The open grassy field in the background is the former site of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle.