February 2015

Grace College’s Kessler Named Co-Coach of Year by Crossroads League

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Grace’s men’s basketball coach, Jim Kessler, was named the 2015 Crossroads League Co-Coach of the Year to highlight the Lancers’ award haul. Logan Irwin, Brandon Vanderhegghen, and Dennis Williams also earned honors from the CL for impressive regular seasons. Kessler shared the league’s Coach of the Year honor with IWU’s Greg Tonagel. Kessler has led […]

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Lady Lancers, Kauffman and Peterson, Earn All-League Honors

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Grace College Lady Lancers, Allison Kauffman and Kelsie Peterson, were honored by the Crossroads League following impressive regular basketball seasons. Kauffman was a consensus First Team All-League performer for the Lady Lancers, leading Grace with 18.0 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. She made 44 percent from the floor and 80 percent from the free

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Grace’s Graham Named Prestigious NCCAA Wheeler Award Winner

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Grace senior Donovan Graham was honored as the recipient of the 2015 NCCAA Wheeler Award for indoor track. The Wheeler Award is the highest individual honor given to a sport by the NCCAA, recognizing one student-athlete for outstanding Christian character, athletic and academic achievement and community service. Graham has qualified for the NAIA Indoor National

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Movement Band Releases Free Worship Album

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The worship team at Movement Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Hilliard, Ohio, has released their first recording — and it’s free! Josh Howard, worship pastor at the church, and Jeremy Noland, worship and creative arts intern at the Grace Brethren Church, Delaware, Ohio (Gary Underwood, pastor), did much of the work. It was recorded

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Philadelphia Churches Host Valentine’s Banquet

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The Crossroads Community Churches in Philadelphia (MetroGrace) held their first Valentine’s Dinner. Kurt Miller, director of strategic partnerships for MetroGrace, reports: We had more than 30 first-time visitors who attended our first Valentine’s Outreach Dinner. We converted the church auditorium into a banquet hall complete with red and white table coverings, candles, centerpieces and balloons.

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Relationships Built in Mansfield Woodshop

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A new ministry of the Woodville Grace Brethren Church, Mansfield, Ohio (Ron Smals, pastor), was featured on the online news site, Richland Source. A portion of the story appears below. Click here for the complete article. Woodville Woodshop offers instruction Recently a group of men from Woodville Grace Brethren created a local woodshop to offer

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Thy Will Be Done

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As we celebrate 75 years of telling the stories of the people and churches of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, every so often, we will share an article from the Brethren Missionary Herald archives. In April 1965, missionary to Africa, Rosella Cochran, shared her story of how God worked in her life, though much differently then she expected!

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Grace History Lecture Airs on C-Span

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The experience of religious pacifists and members of the peace churches during the American Revolution was the topic of a Grace College lecture that was aired this afternoon on the public affairs cable network, C-Span. Dr. Jared Burkholder,  chair of the history and political science department and director of faith, learning, and scholarship at Grace College, taught on “Religious Pacifists

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