Communicators from Grace Brethren churches around Ohio are meeting today at Grace Church, Wooster, Ohio (Bob Fetterhoff, pastor) to learn more about communicating with their local congregations. Led by the staff of Kumveka, the communications partner of Encompass World Partners, the sessions are focusing on how to craft a communications strategy, discovering best practices for […]
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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 as delegates and attendees signed a large banner as A Declaration of INTERdependence. It came at the end of the final Celebration on Sunday after Jeff
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More than 80 pastors and leaders from Grace Brethren churches and ministries from Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Michigan, are gathered this week at Maumee Bay State Park near Toledo, Ohio, for the Central Focus Retreat. Led by Dr. Dave Guiles, the 48-hour retreat is focusing on “Shaping the Future” and is designed to begin
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Roland Maust, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church, Uniontown, Pa., and a Civil War historian, is the speaker at the California University of Pennsylvania Civil War Roundtable presentation on Thursday, October 9. A story in Saturday’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review tells the details. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Ohio
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The Englewood, Ohio, Independent has reported that Grace Brethren Village, an assisted living facility sponsored by the Tri-State District of Grace Brethren Churches, has received their seventh deficiency-free survey from the State of Ohio. The facility is located at 1010 Taywood Road, Englewood, Ohio 45322. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read
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Greg Bixler, executive director and co-founder of Design Outreach, a cooperating ministry in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, is quoted in a article in Friday’s Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Africa trip to bring water pumps still on despite Ebola The co-founder of
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Services have been announced for Dr. John Sproule, former professor at Grace Theological Seminary. Dr. Sproule died Thursday, October 2, in Alabama. Visitation Sunday, October 05, 2014 12:30p.m. – 2:30p.m. Ridout’s Southern Heritage Funeral Home 475 Cahaba Valley Road Pelham, Alabama 35124 Celebration of John’s Life Sunday, October 05, 2014 2:30p.m. Ridout’s Southern Heritage Chapel
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Grace Brethren Church of Columbus, Ohio, first met in the basement of a Worthington home in 1964 with 15 people in attendance. In 2014, they are celebrating 50 years of multiplying devoted followers of Jesus in the metro Columbus area and beyond through what is now Grace Polaris Church (Mike Yoder, lead pastor). Next weekend, October
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Dr. John Teevan, executive director of regional initiatives at Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., set out to discover the reality behind the slogan: “social justice.” In addition to ancient and church teaching, he discovered that economic justice or redistribution is at the core of this politicized topic. In his new book, Integrated Justice and Equality
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The Fall 2014 issue of GraceConnect magazine has been mailed to subscribers and is now available online. The publication, produced by the Brethren Missionary Herald Company for leaders and individuals in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC), is printed quarterly and sent, at no charge, to interested individuals. This issue includes reports from FellowShift,
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