June 2006

From the Altoona (PA) Mirror: A memorial foundation has been established through the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation, Altoona, in memory of Aaron N. Stuckey, who died from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident on May 13, 2005. Aaron was born April 2, 1984. He attended Martinsburg Grace Brethren Church and formerly attended First Baptist Church

Visit Israel and Jordan September 25 – October 6, 2006 Visit Israel & Jordan with Pastor Bob Fetterhoff of the Wooster, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church! You are invited to experience the sights and sounds of the land you’ve read about in the Scriptures. Cost of $2899 from Cleveland includes air-fare, 1st class hotels, buffet breakfasts

From https://www.xanga.com/dan_g_update Tuesday, June 13, 2005 Today is Dan (and Jon’s) birthday. While the festivities will need to wait a few days as we begin to recuperate from this past weekend, we all were given the best present we could hope for – DAN IS HOME! During this week Dan will be mostly confined to

E. J. Dionne, Jr., op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, thinks the “mellowing of the evangelicals” will be the story of the decade. Do you agree? Here’s a paragraph from his today’s column — the entire article may be seen here. “The mellowing of evangelical Christianity may well be the big American religious story of

Who would ever have dreamed? The July/August 2006 issue of FGBC World, which is about to arrive in homes and churches, contains some photos Pastor Jay Fretz sent us of Grace Brethren National Conference held in Winona Lake, Indiana, in August of 1958. One of those photos shows passengers discharging from the “Winona Queen” sightseeing

Chuck Rupp, of Kittanning, Pennsylvania, a decade or more ago “rescued” the Winona Queen pontoon boat by purchasing the retired craft from storage in Winona Lake, Indiana. After refurbishing the boat, Rupp used it for several seasons on the Upper Allegheny River near Kittanning, PA, as part of a campgrounds/marina he operates. The Queen now

Word has come in of the death of longtime Grace Brethren pastor Harold D. Painter in Mission Viejo, California. This is all the information available at the moment–more as we learn it. Painter, Harold D., 95. Funeral: June 13, 10:00am at Temple Baptist Church. Graveside: June 13, 11:00am at Perris Valley Cemetery. O’Connor Mortuary Published

Jim and Faye Hocking and the well-drilling work of their organization, Integrated Community Development International (ICDI) are featured in the Summer, 2006 edition of “Pipeline,” the newsletter of Living Water International. The article begins: “The Central African Republic is in a precarious position, dangling between a path to progress and yet another violent eruption—not from

Rich and Kathy Barnhart, of the Grace College faculty and staff and members of Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church, are currently with a group in Gulfport, Mississippi, working in hurricane relief ministry. To log onto Rich’s whimsical but informative blog, click on https://members.kconline.com/rdbarnhart/blogs/gulfport.htm.

Pastor Galen Wiley of the Lancaster (PA) Grace Brethren Church will be conducting services Monday for the young man noted in this article from the Lancaster newspaper. Fink’s grandmother, Sylvia Leonard, is a regular attender of the Lancaster church.Police: Hit-run driver ‘dozing’Mountville man charged By Brett Lovelace, Intelligencer Journal StaffIntelligencer JournalPublished: Jun 14, 2006 8:07