David Nicodemus, left, youth pastor at the Grace Brethren Church of Columbus, Ohio; and Mark Artrip, pastor of high school ministries at Grace Church, Powell, Ohio, warm up the audience before an evening session at Momentum 2010. As expected, Momentum, the annual Grace Brethren youth conference hosted by CE National, was a high energy week […]
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Almost since the moment Shane Edwards came to faith in Christ at age 16, he felt a call to ministry. This year, 14 years after he promised God he would study for a year at Bible college, he moved his wife and six boys to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, to plant the first Grace Brethren
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Events of general interest among Grace Brethren churches. Details and registration information are available fEvents of general interest among Grace Brethren churches. Details and registration information are available from the sponsoring organizations or at fgbc.org. August 30 – Classes Begin (GCandS) September 4-6 – Awaken: Women’s Outreach Ministry, Urban Hope, Philadelphia, Pa. (CE) September 9
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The following news briefs are from September and October issues of The Brethren Missionary Herald magazine. Sixty Years ago – 1950 Some of the 1950 conference attendees at Long Beach, Calif. The Fifth and Cherry Light reported the following information concerning the recent national conference in Long Beach, Calif.: total registration, 1,229; delegates (including alternates),
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From today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union newspaper: Grace Recruits Reaching New Heights Anthony Gadson, sports writer WINONA LAKE – The Grace College men’s basketball team has two new players that are turning heads. Dennis Williams and Adrian Makolli are long-time Lancers head coach Jim Kessler’s two newest centers, although Makolli will red shirt this
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The September-October 2010 issue of FGBC World, the bi-monthly magazine for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, is chock full of news and photos from two recent Grace Brethren conferences: Momentum, the annual youth conference sponsored by CE National, and Celebrate2010, more commonly known as “national conference” and the annual gathering of pastors, elders, and
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Chuck Winter, from Sunnyside, Washington, sends along the following information: The new 20,000 square foot Harrah (WA) Community Christian School was dedicated this past Wednesday afternoon in services held in the school’s gymnasium. The school will begin classes Sept 7th. Sixty students are enrolled for the fall term. Pastor Peter Touhey of the Harrah Grace
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The following is an excerpt from a story which appeared in the online version of the Akron, OH, Beacon-Journal. It features the Ellet Grace Brethren Church (Jonathan Carey, pastor) in Akron. To read the entire story, click here. Church fair wins praise from school, help for kids Ellet Grace Brethren flock backs Ritzman Elementary with fun
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This Muslim woman from Eastern Kenya, shown here holding the BMH tract “Life’s Most Important Question,” was led to the Lord through use of the tract, according to the Louisiana family practice physician who sent the photo after arriving home from a recent mission trip to Kenya. He said, “Interpreters help us share the gospel
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Longtime Grace Brethren pastor John Gillis (retired), now living in Alabama, is currently in a hospital in Mobile, Alabama, with multiple injuries following an accident when a tractor he was driving was hit by an 18-wheeler semi, which overturned in an effort to miss Gillis. Gillis does not appear to have life-threatening injuries, but has
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