Miriam Pacheco, a Grace Brethren International Missions board member, is currently in the Central African Republic, along with missionary Barb Wooler, and they are visiting the orphan care center near Bangui. Many US churches and individuals have sponsored specific orphans in the center, providing for their schooling, food, clothing, and more. Here is part of […]
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A ministry team from the Grace Brethren church in Lititz, Penna. (Scott Distler, pastor) has arrived in the Central African Republic and is getting settled in the Grace Brethren guest house in Bangui, the capital city. You can read more of their airport experiences and keep up with their reports by logging onto Pastor Distler’s
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The new 20-page full-color summer/fall 2009 catalog for BMH Books, Winona Lake, Ind., is now printed and available for distribution. New releases since the last catalog include the Todd Scoles and Cover/Rife books on Grace Brethren history, Bruce Triplehorn and Scott Aniol’s books on worship, Dan O’Deens’ ABS of Faith on building spiritual muscle, two
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Jesse Deloe, senior editor at BMH Books at the Brethren Missionary Herald Co., this morning took a few minutes away from his computer to let the BMH and FGBC staff celebrate his birthday, which is this coming Saturday. Jesse has just OKd and sent to press a reprint of Frank Gaebelein’s The Pattern of God’s
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This past weekend 757 people from 17 churches (13 of them Grace Brethren) combined together for the Unplug Retreat at the Kalahari Conference Center in Sandusky, Ohio. This was the fifth year for the conference and it continues to grow each year. This year’s speaker was Jeff Bogue, pastor of Grace Church in Akron, Ohio.
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A stimulating new book on the biblical approach to music and worship has just been released by BMH Books. Entitled Worship in Song, it is written by Scott Aniol, a rising figure in the church music and musicology world. Aniol, who has studied both theology and musicology (master’s degree in musicology from Northern Illinois University),
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Betty Jane (Hart) Farner, 90, of Columbus, Ohio, wife of former Grace Brethren pastor Donald W. Farner and mother of Grace Brethren pastors Donald Farner and Tim Farner, died Saturday, January 31, 2009 at Wesley Glenn nursing home in Columbus. Born October 23, 1918, in Shelby, OH, she was the daughter of Ream V. and
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Gateway Grace Community Church (Dan O’Deens, pastor), Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, occupied its new building for the first time this past Sunday, February 1. Here are some comments from the blog of founding pastor O’Deens: “Well, we did it! What a great team! I love the hard work and dedication of so many of our people. It
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Karl Moraski and a group from Hope Community Church, Raleigh, NC, (pictured here on an earlier trip) are about to leave for another ministry trip to the Central African Republic. Working with ICDI, this Grace Brethren church (Mike Lee, pastor) has been instrumental in bringing significant community development and health assistance to the C.A.R. Here
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Don DeYoung, Ph.D. (pictured), professor of physics at Grace College and author of the BMH book Pioneer Explorers of Intelligent Design, explains how nature has inspired some of the greatest inventions and medical breakthroughs on a new Web site, discoveryofdesign.com. This Web site features a different design every month, with all of the previous designs
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