Leesburg, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church (Tim Sprankle, pastor) will host a Bluegrass Festival Saturday, October 13 from 3 to 7 p.m. at 101 E. School St. in Leesburg. The event will feature live music, kids’ games, a chili contest and other events. Artists scheduled to appear are JD Woods, Don Taylor, John Miller and a […]
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Robert Soto, a professional Native American dancer who also pastors the McAllen Grace Brethren Church in McAllen, Texas, has been involved in a protracted legal situation. Soto had some of his feathers seized by the Department of Interior. A hearing, originally scheduled for September 7, has been postponed. Here are excerpts from his most recent
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The Department of History and Social Studies at Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana, is co-sponsoring an event that will highlight the testimonies of two Holocaust survivors, Bill and Josephine Meyers. Bill lived next door to Corrie Ten Boom (pictured) and ran errands for her family. He was captured at the age of 11 and sent
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Bethel Brethren Church in Berne, Indiana (Joe Nass, pastor) will celebrate its 116th Homecoming on Sunday, September 30, 2007, with former pastor Larry Edwards (pictured at right) as speaker. Edwards, who is currently pastor of the Southview Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio, will speak during the Sunday School hour and the morning worship. Edwards
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From the South Bend (IN) Tribune “Book Briefs”: Author will sign books in Winona Lake The Rev. Gilbert Hawkins will hold a lecture and signing of his book “Marriage Lasts a Lifetime” at the Billy Sunday Visitors Center, 1101 Park Ave. in Winona Lake. The event will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Hawkins has
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An article in today’s Altoona (PA) Mirror celebrates the life of Fred C. Ebersole, Jr. (pictured), of the Vicksburg Grace Brethren Church in Hollidaysburg, PA (Roger K. Myers, pastor) who died this past week in an ultralight aircraft crash. To read the entire article, click on http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/15045.html?nav=742 BROOKES MILLS — Fred C. Ebersole Jr. and
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Today’s Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal features a Grace Brethren church plant just off the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Here is a short excerpt. To read the entire article, click onhttp://www.ohio.com/news/9657532.html The Rev. Jonathan Herron brought together 10 people last year to begin a start-from-scratch church that could mesh orthodox theology and unorthodox methods.
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Peggy Free (right), from the Grace Brethren church in Seal Beach, California (Don Shoemaker, pastor), wrote an article for the church’s newsletter entitled “Laughing Through Cancer.” Here is a short excerpt. For the entire story of how this courageous woman’s wacky sense of humor helped her through a crisis, click on http://mysite.verizon.net/resw2g2p/stagegirlpeg/id1.html If you happened
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Author Madeleine L’Engle died last night in Connecticut, at the age of 88. Best known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, L’Engle was the author of more than 60 books for adults and young readers, most of which were published by FSG. By 2004, A Wrinkle in Time
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“Honoring a Legacy, Embracing a Future: Three Hundred Years of Brethren Heritage” is an academic conference sponsored by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College. The conference, which will be October 11-13, 2007, is designed for scholars, pastors, leaders, and others in various forms of ministry. It will feature plenary
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