Post-session fellowship at the Southwest Focus Retreat is a time for snacks, catching up on relationships, checking e-mail, playing board games, and more. Here three youth workers share a moment after the Tuesday evening session.Pictured, from left, are Timothy Lansing (Norwalk, CA), Bob Hetzler (Whittier, CA), and Mike Saldivar (Modesto, CA).
Larry Orme, of the Penn Valley Grace Brethren Church in Telford, PA, led the Tuesday evening session at the southwest Focus Retreat, meeting at San Juan Capistrano, California. Approximately 50 pastors and church leaders have gathered for the three-day retreat, which is focusing on Paul’s developmental process for building a church, as revealed in his …
Pastor Tim Boal (standing, left), current moderator of the FGBC, is leading sessions today, Tuesday and Wednesday at the Southwest Focus Retreat. Approximately 50 pastors and lay leaders from Southern California, Alaska, Canada, and other western areas are gathered near San Juan Capistrano for the retreat, which is the third in a series of five …
LANCERS EARN FIRST NATIONAL RANKING IN FOUR YEARS The men’s basketball team from Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana, was ranked No. 25 in the latest NAIA Division II poll. The Lancers have not been nationally ranked since the last poll of the 2002-03 season when Grace finished 24-11 and made the NCCAA National Championship game. …
Following the three-day Fellowship Council meetings, a number of us stayed in the Los Angeles area this weekend to sightsee a little on Saturday and to speak and minister in a variety of Grace Brethren churches Sunday morning. Saturday some of the pastors went to Venice Beach, some toured the Queen Mary, and one group …
Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey, currently in Southern California for meetings of the Fellowship Council, got loose from his group last night and went to Hollywood to find his star. He found it.
Pastor Dan Thornton, who recently concluded his 20-year ministry as pastor of the Peninsula Grace Brethren Church in Soldotna, Alaska, this week posted the following on his blog. You can read more of Dan’s postings at http://www.xanga.com/longhikes I’m in a real recording! You can hear it at www.myspace.com/darkroommusic ! Here’s what’s up. David is in …
From today’s St. Petersburg, FLA, Times. Lee Friesen is pastor of the Brooksville church. Grace Brethren Church, 6259 Faber Drive, Brooksville, will present Dane Bailey, “the Singing Auctioneer,” at 11 a.m. Sunday. Since entering Grace Theological Seminary in 1975, Bailey has been traveling, ministering and entertaining at churches, conferences and other gatherings, as well as …
FGBC moderator Tim Boal (center, left, blue shirt) is conducting the current three-day meetings of the FGBC’s Fellowship Council. The meeting is being hosted by the Grace Community Church of Seal Beach, California, and pastor Donald Shoemaker. Among the agenda items are a proposal for restructuring the leadership team of the FGBC, the recommendation of …
