Some 1,600 vowel flashcards are being colored and readied for delivery next month to the Central African Republic for use in literacy programs and in the Hand-to-Hand orphan schools. Here a group of women from the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor) work on the project. Those participating included (from left) […]
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Pastor Elysee Joseph will be departing Haiti this week and we will meet and plan for future assistance to the people of Haiti. We have also received word that Yolette’s niece in Port Au Prince was killed in the earthquake. Pastor Herlin Celicourt reports that his brother & sister and his sister’s baby in
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Current update on FGBC and Haiti relief, sent by Dan O’Deens, as of Sunday afternoon, January 17: A new Haiti earthquake response video is now online and is viewable and downloadable at http://www.convoyofhope.org/go/videos. Current facts and statistics: Some power, communication, and water systems are still down, but open lines remain unreliable. According to the Haitian
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Mike Jentes of the Los Altos Grace Brethren Church in California sends along the following good news and dramatic video: We asked you to please pray for Dan Woolley, our sixth grade teacher Pat Woolley’s son. He is with Compassion International and was in Port Au Prince Haiti when the earthquake hit. The family (wife
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Mike Jentes of the Los Altos Grace Brethren Church in California sends along the following good news and dramatic video: We asked you to please pray for Dan Woolley, our sixth grade teacher Pat Woolley’s son. He is with Compassion International and was in Port Au Prince Haiti when the earthquake hit. The family (wife
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This update from Dr. Chuck Davis of Caribbean Vision Ministries was received late Friday: This is a note of good news and bad news. The bad news is that Yolette’s niece died in the quake in Port Au Prince. We were with her parents last week in Cap Haitian. Our hearts and prayers are with
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Ronald L. Raber of 204 13th Street, Winona Lake, Indiana, passed away Thursday, January 14, 2010, at 3:25 a.m. at his residence at the age of 53. He was born on July 24, 1956, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to the late Louise (Stookey) Raber and Charles Leonard Raber, who survives. On July 30, 1977, he
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Dr. Chuck Davis of Caribbean Vision Ministries sent out this update on Grace Brethren interests in Haiti at about noon on Thursday. Pastor Elysee Joseph’s sister had communication with him and he is doing fine. Pastor Eddy Bazin, one of our ministry partners in Port Au Prince, survived the quake in good shape as well
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As Christian citizens of America, we cherish our religious liberty. In light of this, I have brought before the Long Beach City Council each year for the past three years a “Religious Freedom Proclamation.” The council acted on this proposal favorably this past Monday evening. Once again, I am sending you a generic document and
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Pastor Scott Distler of the Grace Brethren church in Lititz, Pennsylvania, posted the following on his blog Thursday morning: As you know, the country of Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake on Tuesday. What you may not know is that four young men from Grace Church are currently serving in Haiti. They are Trevor Sell, Ty
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