“Our youth group was going to participate in a dodge ball tournament, but we decided this might be more worthwhile,” said Hannah M., a high schooler from Grimes, Iowa, as she took a break from trimming weeds. Around her, activity buzzed as students from Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, in addition to Iowa, worked to cut […]
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The annual conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches begins today in Tampa, Fla. Tom Avey, conference coordinator, has sent the following requests. So take a few moments to remember these important meetings! Pray that we help each other see the lost. Mission is not just for the missionaries but we have to see
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On Thursday, July 17, Grace Community Church in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, hosted an open house at the warehouse facility that will soon be their next ministry home. More than 100 people from the Grace family turned out to walk through the building and to hear the plans for construction and use of the space. Pastor
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From today’s (July 26) PNW LocalNews.com, news of a program at the Grace Brethren Church in Kent, Wash. (Shelton Sugg, pastor). Well-traveled Christian music group to perform this weekend The Continentals, who have performed their Christian music in Europe and Thailand, will perform in two shows this weekend in the south King County area. Grace
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The recent category two storm, Hurricane Dolly, which hit southwest Texas near the Mexico border Wednesday impacted many people in McAllen, Tex., where the Grace Brethren Church is located. Here’s a report from Pastor Robert Soto as he prepares to leave for the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches in Tampa, Fla.
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It was 1971. Apollo 15 was headed for the fourth manned landing on the moon. The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had just been certified, reducing the voting age to 18. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices, and rents. That year, Dale Knepper, of York, Pa., attended Brethren National Youth Conference
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Earlier in the week, singer-songwriter Aaron Shust led worship at Momentum, the annual youth conference sponsored by CE National. He was filling in for Steve Fee, the scheduled worship leader, who needed to stay home for a few days during his infant son’s surgery. (Fee joined his band on Wednesday morning.) Today, Shust blogged about
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Momentum students and staff opened their hearts and their wallets Wednesday night as Jim Brown, pastor of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind. challenged them to give sacrificially to feed 100,000 people. Within half an hour, more than $70,000 had been raised — more than the original goal of the $15,000
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The first full day of Momentun, the annual Grace Brethren youth conference, ended Tuesday evening with a main session challenge from David Nasser (pictured at right) to live the mandate of Micah 6:8 as manifested through Jesus. The verse sets the “I Care” theme for the conference, “… what does the LORD require of you?
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“Ask God to blow your mind this week,” Francis Chan (pictured at right) told the opening session of Momentum East, the annual conference formerly known as Brethren National Youth Conference. The event kicked off this evening (Monday, July 21) at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. Chan, the pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley,
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