July 2006

This massive tent on one of the athletic fields on the BIOLA University campus in LaMirada, California, is housing the main sessions of Brethren National Youth Conference.(Jenna Hollinger photo)

They come by the thousands–and still more are set to arrive as late as midnight Saturday. Several thousand teens, youth pastors, and sponsors have gathered on the BIOLA University campus in LaMirada, California, for Brethren National Youth Conference 06. The conference, which concludes Thursday night, is a function of CE National. Daily updates and photos

A month-long gourmet feast of classical music comes to an end this weekend as the MasterWorks Festival concludes its major summer program in Winona Lake, Indiana. More than 250 top-quality young classical musicians and a star-studded roster of the world’s best performers, master-teachers, and clinicians has provided a rich array of concerts, theater productions, ballets,

A new Compact Disc by the Sam Baer family of the Victory Mountain Brethren Chapel in Hyden, Kentucky, presents purchasers with a great opportunity to be of unique help to the Lord’s work. And, there is a wonderful human-interest story behind the album. “Constantly Abiding: Hymns and Songs of Simple Faith” is the title of

The Sam Baer family, who have ministered in Dryhill, Kentucky, for more than 25 years, are a truly great family of servants who have given significantly of their lives and energy ministering in Kentucky. Their goal with the new family CD, “Constantly Abiding,” is to provide some support for their constantly underfunded ministry.

Some 70 teens and youth staff gathered to pray with friends and family in the parking lot of the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church this morning just before boarding busses to depart for Brethren National Youth Conference (BNYC) in California. Some 3,000 teens will be spending the next week on the campus of BIOLA

Cindy Clark, the wife of Pastor Rick Clark from the Pike Grace Brethren Church in Johnstown, PA, and the children’s ministry coordinator for the Pike church wrote this encouraging report. This is edited for length—a longer version will appear in the September/October 2006 issue of FGBC World: It began as one person’s dream to reach

Treasures of Wisdom: Studies in Colossians and Philemon, the latest in the revised and re-issued New Testament commentaries in The Kent Collection, is now in the warehouse and available for shipping from BMH Books in Winona Lake, Indiana. Written by Dr. Homer Kent, Jr., president and dean emeritus of Grace College and Seminary, the 208-page

The Grace Brethren Church of Long Beach, California (Lou Huesmann, pastor) has a significant involvement each year in a community impact day known as “Serve Day.” Here is an excerpt from an article in today’s Long Beach Press-Telegram: Serve Day has become an event that draws together 100 nonprofits and 28 churches of various denominations

Pastor Jim Franklin of the Flora, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church, was the author of this column, which ran in yesterday’s Carroll County (IN) Comet newspaper: Lessons from the Heart He’s a living legend By Pastor James Franklin Normally the local ministers write about spiritual things in this space. Today, I’d like to take the opportunity