June 2006

From the current Moderator of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, Pastor Keith Shearer of the New Beginnings Grace Brethren Church of Myerstown, Pennsylvania: The kind of spiritual fire we are anticipating to result from Celebrate ’06 is only possible through God’s Word and God’s Spirit. We cannot manufacture it. We can program teaching, but […]

A Heart Opened Wide – Studies in 2 Corinthians, the latest commentary in the Kent collection, was released this week by BMH Books of Winona Lake, IN. Second Corinthians is often regarded as the apostle Paul’s most personal letter and Dr. Homer A. Kent’s informal writing brings out that human aspect. This commentary peers into

BMH Books, Winona Lake, Indiana, and Whitcomb Ministries of Indianapolis, Indiana, jointly announced this week that they have arrived together at an agreement for BMH to warehouse, distribute, and market the books and charts authored by Dr. John C. Whitcomb, Th.D., and his wife, Norma. The Whitcombs, who have an extensive speaking and traveling ministry,

Attention all members of the AGBM (Association of Grace Brethren Ministers)! The proposed prototype new bylaws for the AGBM have been posted on the AGBM website under the “Documents Archive” section in preparation for discussion and adoption at the AGBM meetings during the forthcoming Celebrate06 national conference. The document is the result of many hours

Several presenters from Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana, will give a seminar at the upcoming annual conference of the Association of Christians in Student Development (ACSD), to be held on the campus of Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana, June 5-8. Representing Grace’s Center for Character and Leadership Development (CCLD), the presenters will be Rob

Here is an edited excerpt from an e-mail update by Dr. Francois Ngoumape, shown here translating for one of the American teens during a recent conference, who heads the Grace Brethren Bible schools and seminary program in the Central African Republic and was also the main organizer/speaker for the recent African youth conference: Dear friends

David Andrew Warner Sr., 60, of Derby, passed away suddenly in East Charleston, Vermont, on Wednesday, May 31, 2006. He was born in Lowell on November 7, 1945, the son of Marie (Mackenzie) and Melvin Warner. David graduated from Newport Center High School. He then earned his Bachelors Degree in Biblical Studies from Liberty University

The following prayer request is excerpted from an e-mail that came from the Worthington, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church (Jim Custer, pastor). Please be in prayer for the Pyles family, whose 17-year-old son, Jered, drowned at Alum Creek yesterday. He was a student at Worthington Christian School and was well-loved and admired by the students and

Three members of an Africa-bound GO team from Women of Grace USA left Winona Lake, Indiana, this afternoon to fly to the Central African Republic. At left is Angela House from the First Grace Brethren Church in Dayton, Ohio (Mark Saunders, pastor). GBIM missionary Barb Wooler is in the center and at right is GBIM

Moses and the Gods of Egypt, one of the most useful, academically sound, evangelical studies of the book of Exodus, by John Davis, has just been re-issued by BMH Books with an updated cover design. The commentary guides the reader through 340 pages of understandable, in-depth examinations of Exodus. It illuminates the biblical text in