July 2014

Friday is a Full Day at Momentum

As the week progresses at Momentum Youth Conference, Friday was another full day of activities and speakers. Friday morning’s session featured Axis, a group that creatively teaches a post-literate generation via the medium of current popular culture. They defended the validity of the resurrection of Jesus by looking at historical eyewitness accounts and oral traditions,

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National Conference Affirms FGBC Interdependence

With an unwavering commitment to the Word of God and a desire to impact the world for Christ, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC), FellowShift, concluded on Monday at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. During the final Celebration on Sunday evening, Jeff Bogue, pastor of Grace Church, Bath

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Grace Brethren Speakers Headline FellowShift

An all-Grace Brethren line-up of speakers took the platform at FellowShift, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. Held July 17-21 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., the conference featured multiple speakers per session, with each one presenting a TED-style talk (no more than 20 minutes each). Here are some

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Boy, WLGBC Attender, Dies as a Result of Bicycle Accident

The Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church (WLGBC), Winona Lake, Ind. (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor) is grieving the death of one of it’s own — 10-year-old Kurt Engler, who died Tuesday morning following an accident on his bicycle Monday evening. For the complete story, see Boy Cyclist Dies From Injuries. His obituary appears below. Kurt Allen Engler, 10,

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Ava Schnittjer Beard Lamar, Former Grace College Faculty Member, Dies at 100

Word has been received of the death of Ava Schnittjer Beard Lamar. She taught speech at Grace College and served as the Dean of Women there in the 1950s and 1960s. Her obituary appears below. Ava Beard Lamar (nee Schnittjer) was born to Eternal Life on Friday, July 18, 2014. She was born in 1914,

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