On a delightfully warm summer late afternoon, members of the Grace Brethren International Missions corporation and guests were called to order by Dr. Sherwood Lingenfelter (on platform), chairman of the board of GBIM. The guests were assembled in a tent that is situated on the site of the former 7,500-seat Billy Sunday Tabernacle. The grassy […]
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In the tent, a group of six thespians performed a humorous and thought-provoking drama depicting the interaction between L.S. Baumann and James Gribble, and the romance between James Gribble and Dr. Florence Newberry (pictured). Gribble was the pioneer missionary to open up French Equatorial Africa to the gospel in the early 1900s. The Central African
After processing from the Tabernacle Field tent, led by a brass band and singing “We’ve a Story To Tell to the Nations,” attenders at Equip07 heard Grace Brethren International Missions executive director Dave Guiles (on platform) introduce and commission a number of new missionary candidates to serve in various countries. The concrete marker and plaque
On the very same grassy knoll just off Park Avenue and the Eighth Street Hill in Winona Lake, Indiana, where the Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church was founded in 1900, today’s missionary commissioning service was held. The marker reads, “On this knoll, September 4, 1900, the Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church
Among the missionary candidates who were commissioned was Karen Courter (kneeling, center, with long dark hair), the daughter of Pastor Doug and Barbara Courter of the Calvary Grace Brethren Church in Hagerstown, Maryland. Karen will be going to the Central African Republic to assist with the growing orphans’ ministry there.
A Mariachi band, Irish folk singers and dancers, and ethnic food from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America filled the Rodeheaver Auditorium as conference guests ate, visited with missionaries, and circulated from one food station to another. The International Food Fest was followed by another trek to the Tabernacle Field tent for a corporation
Roy Polman, pastor of the Cherry Valley Grace Brethren Church in Beaumont, California, and his wife, Judy (at left in photo) were eating breakfast last Friday, July 27 at Maria’s House of Pancakes just off Rt. 30 and County Road 250E at the entrance to Winona Lake, Indiana. They thought the guy in the pink
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Pastor Wayne Ayer (left) of the Norwalk, California, Grace Brethren Church, this past Sunday, July 29, received a plaque from radio station KKLA’s Jon Robberson (r) as Norwalk was honored as the “Church of the Week.” Congregants picked up KKLA program guides and were invited to listen to Pastor Ayer interviewed live on KKLA’s The
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Dave Rank (at keyboard) and the worship team from the Winona Lake, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church led worship for the opening session of Equip07, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. The conference is meeting all this week on the Grace College & Seminary campus in Winona Lake, Indiana, with a focus
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