May 2007

Recently I was in a Grace Brethren church over the weekend and had a short but interesting conversation with a woman leader who wears a head covering–as Brethren women in years past commonly did–in response to 1 Corinthians 11. Now comes a column in WORLD magazine by respected writer Andree Seu. Here are several paragraphs […]

From today’s Simi Valley (Ca) Acorn: FIRST PRIZE- Grace Brethren Elementary School students stand before, from left to right in the rear, Principal Howard Lee, Vice Principal Karen Simeri and parent Tracy Dyer in a Simi Valley Town Center awards ceremony Tuesday. Dyer coordinated the school’s efforts in Town Center’s second annual “Shopping for Students”

Hope Community Church and Grace Christian School New Owners Hope Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Cary, N.C., and Grace Christian School, also of Cary, have jointly purchased the former Crossroads Ford dealership property in Cary. Located at 1101 Buck Jones Road, the 48,000 square foot property will be shared by the church and

Jesse Deloe, senior editor at BMH Books, center, leads the staff (and friends) in prayer this morning for Terry White, director of the Brethren Missionary Herald Company. Terry leaves next week to teach writing and journalism classes in Cameroon and Central African Republic. (See blogpost of May 24, 2007.) Seated to Jesse’s right is Ken

Left to right on the photo: Dan Balmer, chairman of Penn Valley elders, Larry Orme, executive pastor of Penn Valley, Al Kidder, pastor of Suburban GBC, and Tony Osimo, campus pastor at Bucks County Campus The elders of Penn Valley Church, a Grace Brethren church in Telford, Pa. have reached an agreement with Suburban Grace

FGBC Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey (right) led national conference planners from the various Grace Brethren national organizations on a tour today of the new $9.1 million Orthopaedic Capital Center (OCC) on the Grace College and Seminary campus in Winona Lake, Indiana. The OCC will be headquarters for this summer’s Equip07 national conference, which will be

One of the Brethren groups descended from the Alexander Mack (seal at right) baptism in Schwarzenau, Germany, in 1708, is the Old German Baptist Brethren group. It is one of six groups which, along with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, participates in the Brethren Encyclopedia Project and is cooperating in organizing a 300th year

The next three weeks will be a bit unusual for this blog, though you may not notice much difference. YIB (Your Intrepid Blogger) leaves the day after Memorial Day for nearly three weeks in sub-Sahara Africa, where we’ll be teaching and training young African journalists. If all goes well, we’ll spend a few days in

Paul Rhodes was installed as the pastor of the Grace Brethren Church of Chico, Calif. during a special service on May 20. Previously, Paul served as an associate pastor of the Neighborhood Church in Chico. It was fitting that the pastor of that church began the service with comments of releasing Paul to another church

Sprecher Lodge at the Grace Brethren Retreat Center (Camp Conquest) in Denver, Pa., will be dedicated at 10 a.m., Saturday, June 9. The service will be followed by an open house and a light lunch. The lodge is an expansion of an existing boys’ cabin. “We added two bathrooms, a large meeting room, and a