Paul Blair, recently hired vice president of financial affairs (CFO) at Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., and a member of the Grace Brethren Church in Winona Lake (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor),was honored this past weekend with the School of Business Distinguished Alumni Award by his alma mater, Eastern Illinois University, where he received his bachelor’s in […]
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A groundbreaking ceremony for the newest dorm at Grace College & Seminary, Winona Lake, Ind., will be held Thursday, October 31, at 1:00 p.m. The school’s record enrollments for the past several years have resulted in a need for more on-campus housing. After completing a new dorm last August, Grace is now ready to break ground on
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Agnes B. Bracker, 99, of Osceola, died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, at Elkhart General Hospital. Her late husband, Gordon Bracker, pastored Grace Brethren churches in Elkhart, Ind.; Fremont, Ohio; Kittaning, Pa.; and Cleveland, Ohio over a span of 48 years. He also served as a director of the Grace Brethren Home Missions
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Stephen Joyce, pastor of About My Father’s Business, a Grace Brethren church in Washington, D.C., was ordained on October 13, 2013, at the Grace Brethren Church, Lanham, Md. Paul Mutchler, pastor of the Lanham church, sent along photos, which you may view by clicking here. “It was absolutely a super service,” he says. “Three deacon couples
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Nurturing future leaders is simple. All it takes is a little time and the right tools to spark a passion in a young boy. Sometimes it’s a literal spark. Grace Brethren Boys (GBB) is a ministry to young boys that uses outdoor skill-building activities like fire starting and tent building as a vehicle for the
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Grace Brethren ministry leaders from the eastern region of the U.S. and Canada are gathered this week at Ocean City, Md., for the annual East Focus Retreat. A record 98 pastors, staff members, and other leaders are registered for the two day event. This retreat, as was the Central Focus Retreat two weeks ago in
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Get acquainted with Cassie McNulty, an admissions counselor at Grace College. Grace is a national organization that is affiliated with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. http://youtu.be/e3ouvtZw7qE
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GraceConnect and BMH Books welcomes Julia Marsh to the Winona Lake, Ind., staff. For the next eight weeks, Julia is an intern assisting with writing and editing projects, helping with office tasks, and aiding with other projects as assigned. Julia is a sophomore at Grace College, where she is majoring in journalism and minoring in
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The Grace Brethren Church, Long Beach, Calif., is one of at least three Grace Brethren congregations that is marking a 100th anniversary this year. (The other two are in Ashland, Ohio, and Rittman, Ohio.) In recognition of that, graceconnect.us dug into the archives of the Brethren Missionary Herald magazine and found this 1978 article that
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Two stories come today from the Central African Republic. One, “Terror Grips Central African Republic,” is published by IRIN Africa, a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. (A portion of that story appears below, with a link to the rest of the story.) The second, a video shared by ICDI
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