November 2007

Thanks to a generous lead donor, Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind. is offering $1,000,000 in four-year scholarships beginning fall 2008 to new students from the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC). To qualify for one of the 200 FGBC Scholarships in the amount of $5,000 ($1,250 per year), admitted applicants must be from a Grace […]

Jim Hill Jim Hill has been named coordinator of marketing and recruitment at Grace Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, Ind. A December 2006 graduate of the school, he is responsible for all aspects of marketing in the seminary. A native of southwestern Michigan, he studied mechanical engineering at Western Michigan University and also holds a master’s

Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., welcomed a record number of new students for fall 2007, with 343 new full-time students enrolled for the fall semester. The previous high was 304 in fall 2006. The large new class brings Grace College’s residential campus to capacity for the new academic year. Geographically, the new class represents 25

In this issue, Ted Rondeau tells how more than 30 years ago God brought him to his knees in a lonely jail cell. “Whoever you are,” he says he told God. “I don’t want to go out like this. I need change.” That moment began a life-long spiritual journey, one that you, too, can experience.

Tom Avey By Tom Avey Fellowship Coordinator Folks in the South say “ya’ll.” In Pennsylvania, some say “you’uns.” I’ve even heard “you’s.” The plural “you” is a concept not communicated well in the English language. As a result we can be tempted to approach the New Testament as if it is all about Jesus and

Jim Brown, moderator of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, prepares for a

The new Winter 2007/Spring 2008 catalog of all available BMH Books products is now available upon request. Catalogs will not be mailed to all churches automatically, as they were last year, but churches may request any quantity desired and they will be sent free and postpaid. The catalog contains the entire listing of more than

Providing Haitian pastors with the necessary training to lead a church is the best way to raise healthy congregations, according to Elysee Joseph, pastor of the Eglise Evangelique De La Freres, a Grace Brethren church in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Haitian community. He and his fellow Haitian Grace Brethren pastors in South Florida have a

It was during the first week of August in 1708 when Alexander Mack “counted the cost” and defiantly baptized a small group of believers in Schwarzenau, Germany. That baptism began a movement that has resulted in hundreds of churches around the world. Next year, those beginnings will be marked in Schwarzenau on August 2 and

By Katy Devereaux Step inside the home of Rick and Jamie DeBoest, of Community Grace Brethren Church in Warsaw, Ind., and you will instantly feel like you’ve come home. With four young children running around in their pajamas and making a fort out of the kitchen table, anyone can clearly see the love and laughter