August 2007

The 2008 collegiate rankings by U.S. News and World Report magazine show Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, to be in the top tier of the Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the Midwest region. U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings are based on a number of criteria, including academic reputation, retention rates, graduation rates, faculty, […]

In the old days, my former Grace College photography students will remember, I offered an automatic “A” in the course for anyone who could catch a photo of a lightning strike in progress. I don’t recall that anyone ever did–but we sure had a lot of wet students each semester! Well…Dave Mitchell, recently retired from

Beginning September 6th through November 8th, Dr. Dave Plaster, senior pastor at Grace-Polaris Grace Brethren Church (Columbus, Ohio) will be teaching a ten-week course on “Church History”. The class will meet Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 at the North Campus DeArmey Discipleship Center, (8225 Worthington-Galena Road, Westerville) room 213 and is open to all.

This morning’s Hagerstown (MD) Herald-Mail newspaper carries a feature on Candy Foltz, a youth leader at the Grace Brethren church in Hagerstown. Reprinted here is the photo caption. To read the entire article, click on http://www.herald-mail.com:80/?module=displaystory&story_id=172463&format=html Candy Foltz spends a lot of time with local youths through her involvement with girls volleyball and basketball teams

Excerpted from today’s Ventura (CA) Star. John McIntosh is pastor of the sponsoring church, Grace Brethren of Simi Valley. To read the entire article, click on http://www.venturacountystar.com:80/news/2007/aug/14/gourley-resigns-from-grace-brethren/ Terry Gourley, who helped Grace Brethren School’s transition from an 8-man football power to an section 11-man champion, has stepped down as football coach and athletic director for

Grace Brethren North American Missions (GBNAM) is featured in an innovative and educational television series, Today’s Family. It will be included in a segment on “Reaching Your World for Christ” in the series “Until The Whole World Hears.” It will be aired on WE, Women’s Entertainment Network, ABC Family Network, and on PAX networks regionally.

Today’s Johnston (Pa.) Tribune Democrat includes a story about Pam Blough, wife of Rev. Duane Blough, former pastor of Singer Hill Grace Brethren Church. She has recorded a compact disc of hymns that have helped see her through her husband’s battle with cancer. (The couple is pictured at right.) To read the entire story, click

Summer is winding down on the campus of Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Ind. Student leaders are arriving this week, with new students and their parents coming to campus on Saturday, August 18. Here are a few things that are happening this week… 8/13 RAs and GSO leaders at Camp Adventure

In His Presence is the theme of the third annual discipleship conference at the Grace Brethren Church of Columbus, Ohio. The conference, to be held Friday and Saturday, February 8 and 9, 2008, will focus on learning to hear God’s voice by spending time with Him. The conference begins at 7 p.m., Friday and ends

Neil Cole, executive director of Church Multiplication Associates, author of Organic Church, and pastor of Awakening Chapel, a Grace Brethren church in Signal Hill, Calif., will be leading two workshops in Long Beach, CA in the coming weeks. The sessions will focus on leadership in the organic church. Saturday August 25, Long Beach, CA, The