June 2006

Pastor Kork Moyer, who not only leads the Still Waters Grace Brethren Church and ministry to the homeless in Pottstown, PA, but also is the Northern Atlantic District coordinator for the FGBC, has been personally affected by the flooding in the east. Here are edited excerpts from two of his recent e-mail updates: We are […]

The Grace Brethren Church of Lititz, PA, (Scott Distler, pastor) has been assisting the local police department with meeting community needs caused by the recent rains and flooding. Pastor Distler received the following e-mail from Police Chief Rich Garipoli: “I just gotta tell you how proud I am of your staff and members. I had

The Association of Grace Brethren Ministers (AGBM) is currently in a time of study, strategic planning, and projected change for the future. In preparation for AGBM meetings at Celebrate06, the AGBM officers would like all association member to read and carefully process the following: Several years ago following the creation of a Research and Development

Dr. Homer A. Kent, Jr. (standing, with cake), President Emeritus of Grace College and Seminary, was honored today on his 80th birthday at an Alumni Picnic on the lawn of Mount Memorial Hall on the Grace campus in Winona Lake, Indiana. Dr. Kent is still quite active, editing and re-publishing his 15 New Testament commentaries

From today’s St. Petersburg, Florida, Times:Church’s porch in right of wayThe contractor asks for forgiveness. Community residents and leaders are not much inclined. The county will decide. By JACKIE RIPLEY, Times Staff WriterPublished June 30, 2006 ——————————————————————————–TOWN ‘N COUNTRY – When church leaders envisioned a new sanctuary on Webb Road 10 years ago, they pictured

Today is the 50th wedding anniversary of Jesse and Gladys Deloe of Winona Lake, Indiana. Jesse and the former Gladys Mighells were married in Randolph, New York, on June 29, 1956. Jesse, whose father was a printer for a Washington, D.C., newspaper and later was a linotype operator for The Brethren Missionary Herald, has been

Mike Jentes has pulled together all our blog entries and photos from DRIVEN06, just concluded this past Sunday, into a “final wrap.” To read through the entire string, click here: http://www.driven07.org/driven06wrap.html

Grace Brethren North American Missions, in cooperation with Grace Theological Seminary, is offering a class on church planting this August. The class will be a weeklong experience in Winona Lake, Indiana, from August 14-18, 2006. The focus will be on the basic understanding and skills necessary for starting a congregation in most North American cultural

Keith Shearer (pictured), moderator this year of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches and pastor of New Beginnings Grace Brethren Church in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, asks the following question: HOW WILL WE KNOW WE HAVE EXPERIENCED THE FIRE?? -at national conference this year? -in the churches of the FGBC? He says, “This is an excellent question

Drew Waggoner, pictured here with his wife, Nicole, and children, is the new Associate Pastor at Grace Fellowship, the Grace Brethren church in Pickerington, Ohio (Keith Minier, pastor). Most of Waggoner’s time will be focused on youth ministry, but he will also oversee the children’s ministry, fill the pulpit occasionally, oversee the care ministry, and