The national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC) has long been termed a “family reunion.” Opportunities to connect with people from other churches and ministries abound amidst annual corporation meetings, challenging speakers, and opportunities for outreach. During this year’s FellowShift Vision Conference, held July 17 to 21 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel […]
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Materials normally available to students of the Great Commission Bible Institute are now available online to the general public. Dr. Randy Smith, founder of GCBI and pastor of Grace Church, a Grace Brethren church in Sebring, Fla., has announced that a new opportunity for Bible education became available this week as they published the first
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The AWANA blog, Life Threads, carries a story today that features Brenda Wilcoxson, a member of the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor). Written by Terry White, the former executive director and publisher at the Brethren Missionary Herald Company, the story tells how she felt led to begin a ministry to
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“Conference” is a long tradition in Grace Brethren history — it predates the founding of the Grace Brethren movement in the late 1930s. In fact, you’ll find an annual national meeting on the calendars of most of the other branches of the Brethren family tree. For those of us in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren
For the 15th year in a row, the Southview Grace Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio (Mark Abel, pastor), hosted the Wifflefest this past weekend. This year it was complete with a commemorative coin and professionally hand-turned bats as prizes. WMFD.com reported on the event. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the
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My family and I harvested three quarts of wild black raspberries recently. It was fun! It was a treasure hunt! We would start picking berries in one patch, move some leaves aside and “bam” another patch would appear!! We were in different parts of the woods and every now and then someone would yell: “Holy
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BMH Books author, Dr. John C. Whitcomb, was part of a ceremony in early May that signified the launch of the Ark Encounter themed attraction at Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio. A full-sized Noah’s Ark is expected to open in the summer of 2016. Dr. Ken Hamm, CEO of Answers in
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The Aiken, S.C., Standard recently carried a story about Grace Brethren Army chaplain, Capt. James Murray, when he spoke at Grace Church, a Grace Brethren church in Aiken (Steve Taylor, pastor). Murray served as youth pastor at the church prior to entering the chaplaincy. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read
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Now with his Savior, Jesus Christ, Dick Battis died Monday evening, June 23, at home following a battle with cancer. He was 81 years old. Services were held Saturday, June 28, 2014 at El Camino Baptist Church, Tucson, Ariz. The son of Hiram and Mildred (Grubb) Battis, Dick was born in Wilmington, Del., on July
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In the opening session of FellowShift (national conference) this year, the planning team wants to show a short video montage of various pastors and leaders in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. Designed to create some energy in the session and let people get a quick picture of the many leaders and churches that are represented
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