The following article appears in today’s Mansfield (OH) News Journal. To read the entire article and sidebar, click here. Expansion gives Mansfield church room to growBy ANGEL N. TAYLOR News Journal MANSFIELD — Members and visitors to Cornerstone Grace Brethren Church will soon have more room for fellowship. The church at 1905 Lexington-Springmill Road started […]
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Eight young couples, friends from days at Grace College, rent a house in Madison, Indiana, for the weekend. They talk. They read scripture. They fast and pray. They take walks. They listen for the Holy Spirit’s leading. They analyze their own resources, interests, abilities, desires. And three of the couples commit to working with the
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The Grace Brethren church-planting initiative in Canada has announced the formation of a new U.S. charity, GBCanada USA. The existing Canadian board and new U.S. board will be working together to plant Grace Brethren churches across Canada. Members of the new board include: Kurt A. Miller — Formerly National Director of Church Planting and Development
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According to this week’s “Grace Connections” e-newsletter, Grace Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, Indiana, will soon welcome Dr. Choong-Woong Jin and 20 students from the HolyWay Institute of Theology in South Korea, who arrive on campus on April 28 for three weeks of classes. This represents a partnership with HolyWay for the completion of Doctor of
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As the various branches of the Brethren church movement plan to gather this coming August 2 and 3 in Schwarzenau, Germany, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of the movement, it may be helpful to know more of the context and current configuration of the various Brethren groups. Here is a capsule summary,
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The Grace Brethren International Missions website carries the notice today of the death of former GBIM missionary Lynn Schrock on Saturday, April 19, 2008. Lynn and Lois Schrock were missionaries to Argentina with GBIM from 1945-1970. Lynn graduated from the missionary course at Moody Bible Institute in April, 1942. It was while at MBI he
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A number of Grace Brethren leaders and pastors are attending the “Exponential” conference this week in Orlando, Florida (Tom Avey cellphone photo). Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey reports, “Jesus told them to make disciple ‘as they go.’ But they had to wait on the Holy Spirit. Then the Spirit came, they spoke and thousands came to
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Dr. Larry Chamberlain (pictured), President of Grace Brethren Investment Foundation, is speaking this week at the National Conference of Christian Leadership Alliance (formerly, Christian Management Association and Christian Stewardship Association) in Dallas, Texas. He is presenting a 90-minute workshop entitled “Trust: The Foundation for Effective Christian Leadership.” His presentation is the result of an extensive
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From today’s Lebanon, Pa., News… South Londonderry Township supervisors have approved a police-chaplain policy and accepted the volunteer services of a local minister. The Rev. Dan Travis, pastor of Palmyra Grace Brethren Church, Airport Road, offered his services to the police department. Township manager Thomas Ernharth said last year the police department sent a letter
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Dr. Jim Swanson describes the characteristics of current college students, often called “millennials” during the first session of the Alumni Advisory Council at Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana. The council is a group of alumni who help connect and reconnect Grace College and Seminary graduates to their classmates and to the institution. Grads have come
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