It was during Vision2020South in Atlanta, Ga., that the staff at Grace Church, a Grace Brethren church in Orange, Calif. (Mike Sciarra, pastor), caught the vision for a ministry that could impact lives in their own community. As part of a Learning Lab, they visited Communicycle, a bicycle co-op that helps with cycling related needs in low […]
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The Jesus Saves sign atop Ghent Grace Brethren Church in the Raleigh Court neighborhood of Roanoke has been boldly proclaiming the core message of the Christian faith from its rooftop for as long as anyone can remember. Roanoke Star Photographer Terry Aldhizer captured this beautiful image of the iconic sign as low hanging clouds and
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The Lady Lancers will enter next week’s NCCAA National Championships, held at Grace College, as the Midwest champ. The team’s first-round opponent will be released late Saturday night with the announcement of the official tournament field. Both Grace’s men’s and women’s teams will participate in NCCAA Nationals for the first time this year. The tournament is held
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Women of Grace, the Grace Brethren women’s organization, has awarded its two Honor Her scholarships for 2014 to Grace Sarris (pictured above), who is going to Thailand on a Go Grace trip, and Brienne Cremean (pictured at right), who is going to Nicaragua with the Grace College Graduate Counseling Team. These scholarships each year are made possible
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A series of four seminars during April and May in the Lancaster, Pa., area will examine the roots and impact of the Anabaptist movement. In explaining the Anabaptist roots of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, the late Grace Brethren historian Dr. David Plaster wrote, “The Anabaptist movement had a strong commitment to the Bible
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Brenda Petroski has been hiking since 1987. Soon, she will celebrate her 60th birthday by hitching up her backpack and heading out to Springer Mountain, Ga. There she will begin the longest hike of her life – the Appalachian Trail – with a specific purpose. She is raising funds for Water For Good (formerly ICDI), an organization that builds wells
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This year’s Great Canadian Adventure, a project to engage culture in the most cosmopolitan city in the world, will be held June 29 through July 5, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario. It will be hosted at the Grace Centre (Grace Community Church), Mississauga, Ontario, near Toronto’s Pearson Airport. The project will support two of the original church plants in Canada
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Last week, we posted the video introducing the team that is moving to Ocala, Fla., to join with existing members in a restart of the Grace Brethren Church there. Here’s “the rest of the story,” supplied by Pastor Todd McQueen. Meet the team (below) who are in the equipping phase of this effort. Team Ocala’s
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In anticipation of an upcoming issue of GraceConnect magazine that will be devoted to the Identity Initiative of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, several documents were released prematurely last Friday on graceconnect.us and via RSS feed. Apart from the fuller context of the magazine, the staff at GraceConnect recognizes these documents may be confusing. We
The worldwide leaders of Grace Brethren fellowships met in August of 2008 at Bad Homburg, Germany, and crafted the original document entitled “Commitment to Common Mission.” That document revealed the intention of Grace Brethren worldwide to progress over the decade of 2010 in the three areas of evangelism and church planting, leadership development, and integrated
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