August 2007

Driven, the young adult conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, has announced the dates for 2008. It will be held June 26 to 29, 2008 at a new site — the campus of Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. For more information, see www.drivenblog.wordpress.com or e-mail the Driven staff at info@drivenconference.com.

We’ve received word that Kathern Lingenfelter, wife of long-time Grace Brethren pastor Galen Lingenfelter, died August 9. She is also the mother of BMH Books author Dr. Sherwood Lingenfelter (and Grace Brethren International Missions board member). Her funeral will be held at 12:30 p.m., Saturday, August 11 at the Grace Brethren Church of South Pasadena,

Grace Brethren International Missions (GBIM), in their commitment to excellent training, is offering practical “how-to” workshops called On-Mission Training to help equip churches for local and global cross-cultural ministry. The next On-Mission Training is scheduled for September 15 in the Lancaster, Pa. area at Grace Church at Willow Valley. This is the third On-Mission Training

Anybody fishing out there? If you have followed the challenge given by Jim Brown, the 2008 Moderator for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, to “go fishing” for Jesus, we’d love to hear your stories! A site has been set up for you to tell your experiences. “This site will encourage us we hear how

In Thursday’s Aiken (SC) Today is a story about a teen at the Grace Brethren Church who is painting a mural outside the church’s nursery. Kayla Gifford is giving the church she grew up in a going-away present before she leaves for the Governor’s School in Greenville. Kayla, 16, has grown up a member of

The August newsletter from the Grace Brethren church in Seal Beach, California (Don Shoemaker, pastor) carries an article about an amazing “coincidence.” The church had sent a team of high school students to Belize in Central America, where they did construction, conducted church services, and ran a Vacation Bible School. According to the article, during

Another feature story appeared in today’s Tri-City (Washington) Herald on the couple who were married by Pastor Paul Guay of the Mabton, Washington, Grace Brethren Church in spite of the bride’s having been in a serious auto accident. The earlier posting on this blog was Monday, July 16. Today’s story may be seen in its

Dr. Terry Hofecker, the founding pastor of Northwest Chapel, the Grace Brethren church in Dublin, Ohio, and an adjunct professor at Grace Theological Seminary, taught “Seminar in North American Church Planting” during the week of Equip07, just concluded. (photos by Liz Cutler Gates) This year’s annual conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, held

Jeff Bogue, lead pastor of the Grace Church in Norton (Ohio) North Campus, co-taught with Pastor Bob Combs a course entitled “Leading the Church/Flock in the 21st Century.” It was just one of about 30 courses offered–some for seminary credit, others for enrichment only, during the week of Equip07. In all, approximately 400 people registered

The last stop on the Brethren Heritage Tour Thursday evening was the Menno-Hof Amish-Mennonite Vistor’s Center in Shipshewana, Ind. There, tour participants had a chance to look at the history of the Anabaptist movement and learn about the price paid by our religious forefathers for practing believer’s baptism. The tour, sponsored by BMH, was guided