April 2008

Updates have been made to the Grace Brethren Boys website, including information about the Ohio District Spring Outpost, to be held April 25, 26, and 27 at Atwood Lake Park, and results of the March 15 Indiana District Pinewood Regatta Race at the Bethel Brethren Church in Berne and Indiana’s own Spring Outpost, May 16-18, […]

Representatives and friends of Brethren groups from all over the world will converge on the little village of Schwarzenau, Germany, about forty minutes north of Marburg, on Saturday, August 2, and Sunday, August 3, 2008, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Brethren movement, and you are invited to participate! This celebration

The annual Northern Atlantic Fellowship Celebration 2008 will be held Friday and Saturday, May 9-10, at Refreshing Mountain Camp in Stevens, Pennsylvania. This event is open to everyone, not just pastors or church leaders. This year the emphasis is a sense of community and focusing time on the Word of God and its practical application.

The new church-planting website of GO2 Church Planting ministries is now live and online for browsing. Executive Director Tim Boal (pictured) indicates that more web development is coming, but currently a number of church planters and their work are featured, including Chad Presley, Fort Worth, Texas; George Stagg, Twin Cities Church, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Jonathan

BMH volunteers (from left) Jim Morrison, Jim and Rosalie Niederhouser, and Esther Morrison worked today in the BMH conference room to prepare a mailing that presents a special opportunity to friends and supporters of the Grace Brethren history and literature ministry. (Natalie Rummel photo) Two new books on Brethren history are being readied for national

Kary Oberbrunner, one of the speakers for Driven ’08, talks about his session at this year’s conference, in this video clip. The conference will be held June 26-29 in Westerville, Ohio. It’s the first of several videos that will promote the young adult conference and encourage early registration. The early bird rate ends May 1,

Grace in Action, a new non-profit group which has applied for cooperating organization status with the FGBC and which will be represented at this year’s national conference, has begun a new blog. Check out today’s post at http://www.giablog.org/

Foreign missions in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches was birthed as the result of “enthusiasts who refused to have their ardor cooled” one warm day in August 1900. To learn more, see Moments in Grace Brethren History in the March-April issue of FGBC World. In the photo, Yohan Y. Auraham (second from right), the

A fund raising event to build homes for poor families in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Mozambique and the Philippines is being organized and promoted by a parishioner from a northern Ohio Grace Brethren Church. Here is an excerpt of an article in today’s Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal. To read the entire article, click here. ”The folks

The following obituary appears in today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union: WINONA LAKE, IN – E. Philip Dick, 65, peacefully passed away April 4, 2008, at Goshen Hospital after a very courageous two-year battle with kidney cancer. He was born March 30, 1943, to Paul E. and Esther Hostetler Dick and grew up in Winchester, Va. On