August 2008

Pastor Gary Austin of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Grace Brethren Church, is featured in his local newspaper this week in a series in which people reflect on the good qualities of their neighborhoods. Here is a short excerpt. To read the entire article, click here. Gary Austin and his wife Jean have lived on Parkwood […]

Water polo aficionados will know that the U.S. Olympic team for men’s water polo held off Italy 12-11 in the second game of Group B play at Ying Tung Natatorium in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics earlier this week. What readers of this blog may not know is that Tim Hutton, a team member who

Go2 Church Planting Ministries is hosting a Church Planter Interact / Workshop on September 22-24, 2008. The workshop will provide participants a time to rethink, reflect, and refresh an individual’s passion for God, others, and the ministry. Sessions will address the practicalities of life as a church planter and networking among church planters and church

An informational and inspirational meeting with a number of Grace Brethren believers from French churches as well as with missionaries was the highlight of Monday evening for the Brethren Heritage Tour group, meeting at the Chateau St. Albain in France. Here GBIM missionary Dave Hobert gives background and answers questions on the development of the

Guests to the Chateau St. Albain eat well, as meals are prepared and served by the staff of the retreat center. Fellowship is good as Brethren Heritage Tour members mixed with missionaries and believers from other parts of the world, as well.

Grace Brethren International Mission executive director Dave Guiles presented two seminars to the Brethren Heritage Tour participants Monday morning in the Chateau St. Albain, France. The first was on Jacob Cassell and the founding of the Brethren missionary movement in 1900 and following, and the second was the story of Africa missionary James Gribble and

Maribeth Taylor (left), from the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church, is the newest intern/assistant to arrive at the Chateau St. Albain in France. This photo was taken at lunch Monday, and Maribeth had arrived only about 30 minutes earlier. She will assist at the chateau for about the next six months. At right is

Retired Grace Brethren pastor Russ Ogden, now living near Indianapolis, IN, recently received his Ph.D. degree. Here is a message he recently sent to friends and prayer supporters (photo by Joan Snively) Betty and I express our deepest gratitude to our family and friends who have encouraged us throughout the arduous years I have labored

YIB (Your Intrepid Blogger) has concluded the CHARIS experience in Frankfurt, Germany, and is now in France. Dave and Sue Guiles and I took a patchwork of trains, Paris subways, and other means to cross over into France and re-join the Brethren Heritage Tour Saturday night in Lyon, France. Sunday morning we attended the Lyon