June 2017

Worthington Christian High School Grad Returns to Hometown for Concerts

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Yesterday’s Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch carries a story about Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, the alternative-rock band Twenty One Pilots. Tyler is a graduate of Worthington Christian High School, a ministry of Grace Polaris Church (Mike Yoder, lead pastor), a Grace Brethren congregation on the north side of Columbus. He and Dun will begin a series […]

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GBCanada Broadens Mission to Include U.S.

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The summer newsletter from GBCanada USA, the Grace Brethren church-planting organization in Canada, celebrates 20 years of ministry in the country, the development of four continuing churches, and more than 400 Canadians who have come to know and follow Jesus. It also contains news of a shift in ministry area, as the team which birthed

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Grace College Students Take Mystery Excursion

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For the second year, the Global Initiatives team at Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., included a Mystery Trip among the Go Encounter trip options. This year, Dr. Matthew Harmon, professor of New Testament studies, and John Sloat, resident director, took 13 students to Sydney, Australia; Christchurch, New Zealand; and Tokyo, Japan. The 12-day excursion took

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Hagerstown Church Holds First Service in Renovated Barn

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Cornerstone Community Church, Hagerstown, Md. (Dean Pryor, pastor), marked its first Sunday in it’s new facility — a renovated historic barn east of Hagerstown. The church was formerly the Hagerstown Grace Brethren Church and sold its building on Spruce Street in 2011 because the upkeep had become burdensom. A story in today’s Herald-Mail provides the

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Kent Represents Architect in One World Trade Center Suit

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Dan Kent, a 1986 Grace College graduate and son of Homer Kent Jr., former president of Grace College and Seminary, is representing Jeehoon Park, a Korean-born architect who has sued a major architecture firm over the design of Manhattan’s One World Trade Center. Kent is quoted in a U.S. News and World Report story about

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Grace Grad Authors Book on Searching for the Sacred

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A book by Grace College graduate, Nancy Swihart, has recently been released. On Kitten Creek: Searching for the Sacred, published by Cladach Publishing, details the journey of the Swiharts as they left a comfortable, thriving ministry in Southern California and transplanted their young family to a dilapidated, old farm in Kansas. Life there didn’t turn out exactly

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GraceConnect/BMH Corporation Meeting Announced

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The annual corporation meeting for the Brethren Missionary Herald Company, Inc., doing business as GraceConnect and BMH Books, will be held Tuesday, July 25, 2017, at 7:30 a.m. The breakfast meeting will be held Grace Community Church, 900 Smith Rd., Fremont, Ohio, The meeting is in conjunction with the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace

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Johnson Named to Fulfill Vacant Seat on Fellowship Council

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Adam Johnson has been appointed to serve on the Fellowship Council of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. He fills the seat left vacant by the April 21 death of Larry Orme, pastor of Penn Valley Church, Telford, Pa. Adam serves Penn Valley Church Multi-site as the Bux-Mont campus pastor. He is married to Megan

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