July 2007

Brad Powell, pastor of NorthRidge church in Plymouth, Michigan, gave the challenge in the opening session of Equip07 Monday evening in the Orthopaedic Capital Center on the Grace College & Seminary campus. Powell’s forceful message was that, to be truly biblical, the church must deal continually with change, yet remaining true to its mission to […]

In the Monday evening plenary session of Equip07, the FGBC moderator Tim Boal (at right, with microphone) called Pastor Gerardo Leiton of the Iglesia Comunal Cristiana, an Hispanic Grace Brethren church in the Tampa area, to the platform. Leiton’s church has been unable to move into its new building because of difficulties with local zoning

More than 30 classes on specialized topics are being offered as part of the Equip07 programming this week. In this one, Dr. Christy Morr of the Grace Seminary faculty is teaching on “Spiritual Formation.”

The special “seniors menu” portion of programming for senior adults at Equip07 today included a panel discussing “Learning to Live With Change.” Members of the panel were, from left, Dave Marksbury, Bruce Barlow, Charles Ashman, and Tom Abbitt.

The annual corporate business meetings of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, Grace College & Seminary, and the Brethren Missionary Herald Company were the features of the opening evening session of Equip07, the Grace Brethren national conference being held this week on the campus of Grace College & Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana. FGBC moderator

Grace Brethren Air Force chaplain Ralph Molyneaux (blue uniform, with microphone) was presented a special “Golden Eagle Award” at this evening’s Equip07 session in anticipation of his soon retirement from the chaplaincy. Molyneaux’s wife, Angela, is to his left (holding flowers). Grace Brethren chaplain’s endorsing agent John Schumacher (right) made the presentation. Schumacher’s wife, Martha,

Mrs. Tom (Donna) Miller, daughter of Ralph and Anna Mae Grady of Waterloo, Iowa, was presented a plaque this evening by Dr. Ron Manahan (right), president of Grace College & Seminary. Mrs. Grady is now with the Lord, but Mr. Grady, who is in an assisted living facility in Iowa, served many years on the

Dr. William and Ella Male (left) were honored with recognition and a plaque presented by Grace College & Seminary president Dr. Ron Manahan (right) at tonight’s dedication of the Orthopaedic Capital Center building on the Grace campus. Dr. Male, whose long career at Grace included being professor, academic dean of the college, academic dean of

More than 300 Grace Brethren pastors met in the sanctuary of the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church this afternoon for the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers (AGBM) annual meeting. In addition to routine business, three members were selected for special honor. Dr. David Plaster (at podium), newly-called pastor of the Columbus, Ohio, church, was

Ron “Topless” Henry (batting here), who is also on the staff of Grace College & Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana, is one of the players featured in an article in this morning’s Fort Wayne newspaper on the 1862-era base ball team Winona Blue Laws which plays in a league in northern Indiana. Here is a