Here are updates on the health issues of three who have ministered prominently in the FGBC. Please pray for former Grace Brethren pastor Roy Roberts, who has been hospitalized in Portland, Oregon. This past week one leg was amputated below the knee and further surgery is anticipated. Please pray for retired pastor John Gillis, who […]
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Dr. William Robert Eberly, 84, North Manchester, Ind., died Thursday, July 28, 2011 at his summer home on Big Chapman Lake, Warsaw, Ind. Eberly was a prominent historian, writer, and editor in the Brethren movement, having been for many years the editor of the monograph series for the Brethren Encyclopedia Board. He is
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According to the Medicine Hat (Alberta) News, Grasslands Church, the new Grace Brethren church-plant being led by Oliver Shane Edwards and his family, will be hosting a free introductory skateboard and BMX clinic at Medicine Hat’s Inland Skate Park (near the entrance of Kin Coulee) Park on Tuesday, Aug. 2 and Thursday, Aug. 4. Special
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Each year at the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches annual conference, the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers honors three of its number for their excellence and longevity in ministry. AGBM president Joel Richards announced the awards during the conference this past week. Pastor Keith Shearer of the New Beginnings Grace Brethren Church in Myerstown, Pennsylvania,
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Vision2020 West, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, is July 27 – August 2, 2012, in Indian Wells, Calif. Mark your calendar and make plans to come! For more details, see the video below. Vision2020 West Promo Video
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Here is a quick (3 minute, 19 second) video recap of this past week’s Vision2020 national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches held at the Grace Brethren church in Wooster, Ohio. Randy Moomaw of the Wooster staff has prepared the video. http://vimeo.com/26972236
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A wide variety of official business matters were cared for quickly and efficiently at the annual business meeting of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches held the final day of the Vision2020 conference in Wooster, Ohio, and conducted by Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey. Robert Fetterhoff, pastor of the Wooster church, was elected by delegates to
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Tuesday, July 26 was the last full day of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches national conference, being held in Wooster, Ohio. The final meetings of the conference will be an 8:30 a.m. brunch and FGBC business meeting Wednesday morning, and a final address by Ohio Pastor Jim Custer at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday’s schedule
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Heidi Sisson, Grace Brethren International Missions missionary in the Central African Republic has posted this prayer request: Please pray for Berno who has been overseeing the building of our seminary here in Bangui. He was due to fly back to Bangui tomorrow and on Saturday he had a massive heart attack and is in the
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Here are several brief news/prayer items. The first is that Dr. Jim Nesbitt, of the Grace College and Seminary faculty, is reported to have suffered a stroke while in Champaign, Illinois, and he is hospitalized there. Please pray for his wife, Nancy, and for all the immediate issues, as well as long-range recovery for Jim.
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