It started as a simple cupboard to hold food for needy families within the Woodville Grace Brethren Church in Mansfield, Ohio. Jim and Evelyn Miller, motivated by Pastor Ron Smal’s sermon on helping the needy, purchased the cabinet as a place to store donated food. It allowed the congregation to distribute provisions to 16 or […]
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By Bob Fetterhoff This is excerpted from the annual moderator’s address, given to the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches on July 24, 2011, at Wooster, Ohio. A complete version of the address may be heard online at fgbc.org. Also, the full version will be included in the 2012 Handbook for the
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An important new book on the unseen world purports that throughout history, three princes have exercised authority over the earth. The three princes–Adam, Satan, and Jesus Christ–are discussed in detail in The Three Princes: Lifting the Veil on the Unseen World by missionary statesman Tom Julien. Skillfully combining scriptural teaching with his own experience as
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Three men have been honored for their excellence and longevity in ministry by the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers. Donald Shoemaker, longtime pastor of the Grace Brethren church in Seal Beach, Calif., was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, Shoemaker has chaired the Social Concerns Committee of the FGBC since 1985 and also
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The Transforming Grace project at Grace Brethren Church, Long Beach, Calif., will renovate their existing sanctuary, as shown in this architectural rendering.The Grace Brethren Investment Foundation, Inc. (GBIF) recently approved the financing of projects at the Grace Brethren Church of Long Beach, Calif., and the Grace Brethren Church of Marysville, Ohio. The Long Beach church
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Students came from all over the U.S. to participate in Momentum Youth Conference.Momentum 2011, the annual Grace Brethren national youth conference, saw 1,625 students and adults challenged to impact ONE person for Christ this year. Through main sessions, Power Trax, youth group times, outreach activities, and more, God moved in an amazing way through the
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The 2011 Commencement ceremonies for Grace College and Seminary, Winona Lake, Indiana, were held Saturday, May 14, at 9 a.m. in the Orthopaedic Capital Center on the Grace campus. Grace president Ronald E. Manahan led the ceremonies at which 505 degrees were presented to members of the graduating classes. Rev. J. Richard Horner, associate pastor
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Ronald Allen Guiles (October 25, 1935 – September 17, 2011) Ronald Allen Guiles of Warsaw, Indiana passed away on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7:20 p.m. in his residence at the age of 75. He was born on October 25, 1935, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Ernest and Ellen Margaret (Snyder) Guiles. On October 6,
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Today’s Fort Wayne (IN) Daily News carries an article on college campus enrollments that opens with Grace College’s current situation. Here is an excerpt—to read the entire article click here. Facing a cut in state funding for the prison degree program it had operated for 25 years, Grace College administrators knew it would be hard
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John Fea (Ph.D, Stony Brook University, 1999) is Associate Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. Fea has written extensively for both scholarly and popular audiences. He spoke on the Grace College (Winona Lake, Ind.) campus last week and this is his blogpost recalling that experience: I
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