July 2006

BMH wants to buy you lunch! Well…partially. Have you purchased your tickets yet for the Brethren Missionary Herald Company corporate meeting and luncheon during Celebrate06 at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 2 in Indian Wells, CA? We’ll pay for more than half of the cost–just log onto www.fgbc.org or call Tom Avey’s office at (574) […]

Will you be at Celebrate06 this year? Are you willing to give an hour of your time to help the editors of FGBC World sharpen and improve the publication? Then please plan to attend at least one of the several “FGCC World Focus Groups” that will be held during workshop hours. FGBC World, the all-Fellowship

Grace Brethren International Missions’ annual “Family Reunion,” when all the staff, board members and GBIM missionaries on home assignment spend a week together getting updates, reports, encouragement, and challenge, begins today in Winona Lake, Indiana. GBIM missionary to Argentina Alice Peacock (center left, purple dress) is one of the GBIM staff currently on home assignment,

Thanks to Roy Halberg for this: Quick word to follow up regarding services for Charles Covington 2 pm next Saturday, July 15 at Community Grace Brethren Church, Long Beach

The home of Dean and Summer Avey at 108 Maple Street, Winona Lake, Indiana, was destroyed by fire about noon yesterday.(Al Disbro photo) Summer had gone to water the flowers for her vacationing father- and mother-in-law, Tom and Sandi Avey, and upon returning home saw flames and smoke shooting out of the rear of the

The long-awaited Volume 4 of The Brethren Encyclopedia has arrived from the printer and is now ready for shipping. The Encyclopedia is a project of The Brethren Encyclopedia Board, which includes representatives of six groups descended from Alexander Mack and dating their origin to 1708 in Schwarzenau, Germany. The six member groups are the Fellowship

We posted a note on June 15 that longtime Grace Brethren pastor Harold Painter had gone to be with the Lord. His nephew, Pastor Howard Mayes (Clinton, Maryland) has provided the following further details: Harold D. Painter was promoted to his eternal home on June 8, 2006 at the age of 95. He committed his

Pastor Charles Covington, associate pastor of the Community Grace Brethren Church in Long Beach, CA (Dale Workman, pastor) died this morning, July 6, in Seattle, Washington, after having taken ill on an Alaskan cruise during the night. According to Pastor Dale Workman, Covington and his wife, Eva, had been on the cruise for three days.

Lawrence (Larry) M. Weber, will serve as interim pastor of the Waynesboro, PA, Grace Brethren Church through the end of 2006. His first Sunday in the pulpit is July 9, 2006. Weber is the son of the late Russell H. Weber who was the pastor of Grace Brethren churches in Harrisburg, Johnstown and Palmyra, PA;

At the upcoming Celebrate06, delegates from around the FGBC will be conducting a number of items of business, including the election of new members for the Fellowship Council, the strategy and leadership group that facilitates the growth, direction, and development of the Fellowship. Each year, delegates elect six people for a nominating committee. This committee