Sean Spoelstra, pastor of Encounter Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Dublin, Ohio, has announced that the church is launching its first church plant. “For more than three years I’ve said, ‘I don’t know who or where or when, but we are committed to planting a church and are putting five percent of our offerings […]
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Kerugma Productions, the production company responsible for the video series featuring Dr. Randall Smith (archaeologist, Bible professor, and pastor of the Grace Brethren Church, Sebring, Fla.), has announced that SABC 2 in South Africa will broadcast the series, Seven Days that Changed the World – the Passion Week, on four consecutive Sundays, from March 18 to
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Marianne Elsie Smitley, 84, Palmyra, Pennsylvania, passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2012, at her residence. She was the wife of Rev. Lester O. Smitley. She was born on December 19, 1927, a daughter of the late William Virgil and Mary Esteb Cable Bingaman. She was a pastor’s wife, retired school teacher having taught in several
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Several weeks ago, Lyndan Edwards, nine-year-old son of Canadian church planters Oliver and Cheryl Edwards, was diagnosed with a cavernoma, a blood vessel overgrowth. On March 14, he underwent surgery to remove the cavernoma. Here is an update, sent by GBCanada. Oliver writes: “Thank you for your powerful prayers for our son, Lyndan! I can’t
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Henry Winkler, famed actor, director, producer, author, and speaker will speak on the campus of Grace College and Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana. On Friday, March 23, Winkler will share his own story of overcoming obstacles. Winkler will address the student body and visitors in chapel at the Orthopaedic Capital Center on the Grace College
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Pastor Charles Henry Ashman of Grace Village Retirement Community, 337 Grace Village Drive, Winona Lake, Indiana, lived his earthly life in a godly way and peacefully departed to be with the Lord whom he adored with all his heart on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at 4:50 a.m. at Grace Village Retirement Community at the age
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Lois Wilson, former missionary to the CAR, has informed us that Elsie Smitley, wife of retired pastor Lester Smitley, passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Memorial service to be held at Palmyra, Pennsylvania, Grace Brethren Church on Friday, March 23, at 10:30 AM. Elsie’s twin sister, Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Miller, wife of longtime Grace Brethren
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Longtime Grace Brethren pastor and Fellowship leader Charles H. Ashman went to be with his Lord early this morning in Winona Lake, Indiana. Ashman had pastored Grace Brethren churches in Phoenix, Arizona; Rittman, Ohio; and Winona Lake, Indiana (Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church) and also served as coordinator of Fellowship functions, including organizing and implementing
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About 25 pastors, elders, and other leaders from Grace Brethren churches around Florida are gathered this week at the Florida FFA Training Center near Lake Haines, Fla. As with other Focus retreats held previously around the country, Dan Allen (pastor, Grace Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio) is teaching from Ephesians 2:10, encouraging the men to live
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A new church plant in Central Ohio, a renewed effort to develop new congregations in Indiana, and two ministry opportunities to come alongside young churches in Canada – these are some of the stories you’ll read in the Spring 2012 issue of FGBC World, the free quarterly magazine of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren
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