August 2012

Brazilian Church Marks 30-Year Anniversary

Editor’s Note: Igreja Evangelica dos Irmoes, a Grace Brethren congregation in Uberlandia, Brazil, recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Several missionaries who served with Grace Brethren International Missions (now Encompass World Partners) and were an integral part of the beginning of the church were invited back for the celebration. by Judy Daniels  Norm Johnson remembers being […]

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Chuck Davis Reports ‘Weathered Isaac OK’

Many of Caribbean Vision Ministries friends have contacted us regarding the people we minister to in the Caribbean and the United States. We are pleased to report that House of Hope Orphanage, Grace Theological Institute, and all the churches we minister with in Haiti weathered tropical storm Isaac OK. Everyone experienced a lot of wind

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Grace Joins 11-School Suit Against Contraceptive Mandate

Grace College in Winona Lake and Biola University in California added their voices to the chorus of lawsuits against the Obama administration and its contraceptive mandate, filing suit together in Indiana on Thursday. Now eleven colleges and universities have sued the federal government over the issue, including major schools like the evangelical Wheaton College, the

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Riningers Relocate to Florida: Seek to Expand Churches There

Wade Rininger, his wife Anna, and their children are leaving the Penn Valley Church in Telford, Pennsylvania, where Wade has been the associate pastor for the Bux-Mont campus, and are moving to Florida. They will be attending the Pinellas Park Grace Brethren Church where Anna’s father, Randy Weekly, is pastor, with the long-term goal of

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Classes Begin at Grace; Five New Faculty Announced

Classes begin this week at Grace College and Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, Ind., as they welcome the largest freshman class in the history of the school. Initial estimates for the number of incoming undergraduate students was placed at more than 400. In addition, five individuals have joined the faculty. Ashley Holland, Ph.D., joins the Math

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Congratulations, Dr. White!

Terry White, publisher of BMH Books and former executive director of the Brethren Missionary Herald Company, Winona Lake, Ind., was awarded an Ed.D. degree in Organizational Leadership on August 11. His dissertation was “An Analysis of the Relationship of Transformational Pastoral Leadership to the Seven Practices of Transformational Churches Among Grace Brethren Congregations.” He surveyed

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Grace Hires Denny Duncan to Lead Prison Education

Dennis Duncan, formerly the principal at Jefferson Elementary School in Winona Lake, Indiana, has been employed by Grace College to the position of Director of Prison Education.  Grace was recently selected by Indiana’s Department of Correction to head the state’s Adult Basic Education (ABE) program in the northern region. A team of approximately 30 employees

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