Ever since we met, my wife, Kristin, and I have talked about adoption. We knew after we were married we would have biological kids, but we also knew that we would add to our family through adoption. Our heart for adoption flows out of the gospel that is very clearly highlighted in this passage in Galatians… But […]
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Grace College is being considered as a charter school provider by a school corporation in Indiana. A story in Wednesday’s Greene County Daily World explains that the Dugger Union Community School Corp., Dugger, Ind., is approaching Grace College to be their charter school provider. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the
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This week’s Upper Arlington News carries a story about a drama camp that is led by a member of the Grace Brethren Church, Upper Arlington, Ohio (Fenton McDonald, pastor). Katie Schmidt and her husband, Andy, were among those who helped plant the church in the Columbus suburb and she is using the building as the location
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Dr. Paulette Sauders is about to complete her 50th year teaching at Grace College. Only three others have reached this esteemed milestone at Grace (Dr. Homer Kent, Jr., Ron Henry and R. Wayne Snider), but Sauders is the first faculty member to accomplish this while still actively teaching full-time. Sauders graduated from Grace College in
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Troy McIntosh, head of Worthington Christian Schools, which is a ministry of Grace Polaris Church on the north side of Columbus, Ohio (Mike Yoder, lead pastor), is quoted in an article in the new online magazine, Westerville 365. The article, “Leveraging the Limelight,” feature’s Ohio’s first lady, Karen Kasich. In it she talks about the decision
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Asia’s Hope, a cooperating ministry in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, has announced and effort to support front-line responders caring for orphans in the wake of the Nepal Earthquake. The following was initially shared on their Facebook page. Asia’s Hope has several orphan homes in northern India, a region bordering Nepal. The entire Himalayan region been
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Donna Melody, a member of Grace Community Church, Seal Beach, Calif. (Steve Williams, pastor) has received presidential recognition for her long volunteerism at Interval House, a program for women escaping abuse. Her honor was highlighted in the April 9, 2015, issue of the Sun Newspapers (see image below). The article quotes Interval House Executive Director Carol
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The recent e-newsletter from Caribbean Vision Ministries (Chuck Davis, executive director) reviews a recent visit from a ministry team from Grace Polaris Church (Mike Yoder, lead pastor). Dustin Speaks, who is the local witness and mobilization pastor at the church, is quoted. A portion of the newsletter appears below. If you’d like to learn more,
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Sunday’s Yakima (Wash.) Herald Republic tells how Dee Schilperoort and her mother-in-law, Niesje Schilperoort, showed a little kindness to German prisoners of war in the Yakima Valley during World War II. Dee is a member of the Grace Brethren Church in Harrah, Wash. (Peter Touhey, pastor). The story also shares a bit of Grace Brethren history and how
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Jared S. Burkholder, co-editor of the new BMH Book, Becoming Grace, has shared one of the forewords for the book at The Pietist Schoolman, where Dr. Burkholder frequently blogs. The foreward, written by Dr. Jeff Bach, director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, is shared in its entirety below. Dr. Mark Norris
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