We have received word from Tim and Sue Poyner about the death of his mother, Betty (pictured here with her husband, Randy), on Monday, December 10, following a recurrence of cancer. Betty and her husband, Randy, a longtime pastor and professional counselor in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, lived in Florida. Yesterday evening, sometime […]
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Cast members of the Living Christmas Trees pageant at the Grace Brethren Church, Columbus, Ohio, pause for a photo after the afternoon performance on Sunday, December 9. The 21st annual production opened this weekend at the church’s Worship Center. It includes music performed by the church orchestra, choir, and ensemble and involves a cast of
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The Thursday afternoon SMM girls program at Jefferson Elementary School in Winona Lake, Indiana, yesterday decorated Christmas trees to be used as table decorations for the annual mother-daughter tea to be held Thursday, December 13 at Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church (WLGBC). WLGBC (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor) has sponsored the after-school club for several years.
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The men’s basketball team from Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana, along with the Warsaw(IN) Morning Optimist Club and Warsaw’s Holiday Inn Express, will join forces with the Kosciusko County Cancer Care Fund (KCCCF) this weekend in the Hoops for Hope Basketball Tourney on December 8 and 9. The purpose of the tourney is to generate
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Beth and Philip Bryant, church-planters in Surrey (Vancouver) British Columbia, Canada, give an encouraging report on their newest church launch, Community of Hope, in their latest e-mail update. Here is an excerpt: It was in December of 2005 that we arrived in Surrey on a rainy night. We didn’t know anything about Surrey or the
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Use your job to launch new missionaries? Would you like your work to have an eternal impact, to really matter? Are you an organized person who can handle many details? Grace Brethren International Missions in Winona Lake has an opening for a part-time administrative assistant working with applicants for missionary service. For more information see
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Brochures and information packets are now available for the “Brethren Heritage Tour,” to take place July 31-August 14, 2008, immediately following the igo08 national conference in Tampa, Florida. Organized by Grace Brethren International Missions, the tour will be hosted by Dr. David Plaster, a seasoned European traveler and noted scholar of Grace Brethren history. Plaster
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Pastor Mike Tabor of the Happy Church, a Grace Brethren church in Jackson, Kentucky, sends along these updates and prayer requests: Our senior high Happy Church Quiz Team this past weekend went to C.E. National headquarters in Winona Lake, Indiana, to take part in its first annual national quiz invitational. There were 10 teams present
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The Grace Brethren Church of Buena Vista, Virginia (Christian Becker, pastor) recently hosted a power team for a special weekend of outreach. Here are some of the comments from Pastor Becker: We just had an awesome two days in our church. We had a team here from John Jacobs’ Next Generation Power Force(they were on
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