Ryan Bowell has been named to the position of director of credit services, at the Grace Brethren Investment Foundation (GBIF), effective July 1, 2013. Ryan comes to the GBIF as a seasoned business professional with a strong background in strategic planning and the ability to work within multiple levels of an organization. Ryan will primarily […]
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As we learned of last week’s death of veteran missionary, “Amazon Bill” Burk, the tributes to his ministry have poured in. Burk’s association with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, and Encompass World Partners (formerly Grace Brethren International Missions), with whom he ministered, was long and storied. For many of us who grew up in
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Mansfield, Ohio, television station, WMFD, shares the story of this year’s Wifflefest at Southview Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio (Mark Abel, pastor). A portion of the print story appears below. Click here to read the complete post. The 14th annual Wifflefest is coming up this week beginning on July 4th at 9am at Southview
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From April 10 to April 13, Grace College Varsity Mediation Team members Mary Wick, Jacob McCarthy, Drake Darrah, Young Sun Seong and Ashley Brewster attended the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) in Elkhart, Indiana. VORP is a mediation process that focuses on “restorative justice.” Instead of merely sentencing a criminal for the crime committed, the program
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Bruce Triplehorn, a missionary to Brazil with Encompass World Partners and author of the BMH book, Worship the Golden Thread, worked with the late Bill Burk from the moment the Triplehorns landed in the South American country in the 1990s. Upon hearing of Burk’s death on July 26, Bruce sent this tribute, which he had
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Wanting to reach their community and help others in a tangible way, The Village Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Milton, Ontario (Rob Stanley, pastor), launched a program last year called VillageHelps. According to Village Community Church elder Ted Adomanis, VillageHelps exists to meet needs in the community and within their own church. Their
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Rusty Edwards, a member of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, pastor), wrote on his Facebook page this week about riding his motorcycle through the rain from Warsaw, Ind., to his home in Goshen, about 25 miles away. It is included here with his permission. SO I SAW JESUS
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