February 2008

74-Foot Missions Mural Complete

A remarkable artistic accomplishment by Grace Brethren International Missions appointee Deb Hocking (pictured) has been completed and is on display around the circumference of the front lobby of the GBIM headquarters on College Avenue in Winona Lake, Indiana. Here are some statistics on the mural, taken from the blog of Jay and Deb Hocking at …

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Gracia Burnham to Speak for Grace College Chapel

Author and speaker Gracia Burnham (pictured) will be speaking in Grace College chapel service on Wednesday, March 12 at 10 a.m. in the Orthopaedic Capital Center on the Winona Lake, Indiana, campus. Burnham, who wrote In the Presence of My Enemies and To Fly Again, is the widow of jungle pilot Martin Burnham. She and …

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Unrest Also Touches Cameroon–Prayer Requested

The following update and prayer request on the situation in Cameroon, where many Grace Brethren refugees from the unrest in Chad have fled, is from Mike Taylor of Grace Brethren International Missions: Greetings to all, I have been in contact with Frank Puhl (Assistant Regional Director for GBIM in Africa) as well as Karen Foster …

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Focus Retreat Participants Fan Out Across Florida

Pastors and church leaders attending the Southeast Focus Retreat fanned out across central Florida today to accomplish some goals for meeting people and sharing the gospel. Here John Nelson of Fort Lauderdale (front right) demonstrates how he did a quick U-turn with his vanload which included John Diaz (front left), Glen Rininger (back row left) …

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Short and Sweet: Worthington Christian Basketball Players Featured

Today’s (February 26) Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch includes a story about Tyler and Zack Joseph, stand-out basketball players at Worthington Christian High School, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church of Columbus. (In the Dispatch photo at right, guards Tyler Joseph, left, and Zack Joseph are big contributors to Worthington Christian’s success this season.) To read …

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Southeast Focus Retreat Underway

FGBC Moderator Jim Brown (seated, left foreground), who also pastors the Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Indiana, led off the opening session of the Southeast Focus Retreat this afternoon at a camp near Haines City, Florida. In the opening session, a number of the pastors and church leaders attending gave their personal testimonies and identified …

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Lexington, Mansfield Have Special Events

Grace Brethren of Lexington LEXINGTON — The Grace Brethren of Lexington, 215 W. Main St., will hold a mortgage burning ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Along with the Rev. Jason Carmean, the service will feature the Rev. Jim Custer of Columbus Grace Brethren. The original building was dedicated March 23, 1969, and has had several …

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Dr. Matt Harmon Speaking at Ohio University

Dr. Matt Harmon (pictured), associate professor of New Testament studies at Grace Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, Indiana, is speaking today at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He is speaking in the last of a three-part series held by Campus Crusade entitled, Reasonable Faith. Dr. Harmon’s talk is titled, “God of Vengeance, God of Love: Is …

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