Slots are still available for the East Focus Retreat for Grace Brethren pastors and leaders. The retreat will be held October 16 – 18, 2017, at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Ocean City, 1701 Atlantic Avenue, Ocean City, Md. This is the second of five regional retreats that are designed to provide opportunities for leaders to refresh, reflect and
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Today’s story comes from Cheryl Edwards, author of the Elta series. Cheryl and her husband, Oliver, are church planters for GBCanada, starting Grasslands Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in 2011. Oliver took the role of lead pastor at Bow Island Community Bible Church in 2015, where they now attend with their sons. (The Bow Island church joined the
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Last summer, Nick Cleveland, senior pastor of Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Wooster, Ohio, experienced a house fire at his family’s home. Though it was a devastating event for the Cleveland family, God used the tragedy to help connect the church to a unique ministry in the community called Sound the Alarm, where volunteers from the
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The Central Focus Retreat wound up this morning (Wednesday) as Matt Wheelock, of the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers, unveiled the standardized ordination process that the organization is recommending to be used by local churches and districts in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. While the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches is a fellowship, not
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Elmer Gable, a member of Grace Brethren Church, Rittman, Ohio (Bud Olszewski, pastor), has been named the winner of its first-ever Maintenance Hero Contest by American Time, a market leader in integrated time solutions. Elmer is maintenance director at Kingsway Christian School in Orrville, Ohio. As the grand prize winner, Mr. Gable earned $3,000 in American Time
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Dan Allan went beyond the usual list of suggestions for how to stay fresh in ministry on Tuesday when he shared his thoughts with the Central Focus Retreat. He shared three points: lighten the load, look to Jesus, and lower your expectations. “Be constantly lightening the load,” he said, as he talked about pride and
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Grace Church of Greater Akron, a Grace Brethren congregation in northeast Ohio (Jeff Bogue, senior pastor), has been named among the top in America in 2017 by Outreach Magazine. Listed at number 80, the church has seen a 10 percent growth in the last year, and is number 90 in the largest churches participating in
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“Never have I been so concerned for the state of our country,” says Dan O’Deens, executive director of Breathe Partners. He’s encouraging Grace Brethren people to unite in prayer. “It is appropriate at such a time as this to pray of our nation as a Fellowship and as the Church.” He’s asking people to take
The first-ever ‘Relentless Pursuit of the Least-reached Award’ was awarded during to Larry DeArmey, veteran missionary with Encompass World Partners, during the Central Focus Retreat on Monday evening, October 2. Dave Guiles, executive director of Encompass World Partners, presented the award to acknowledge a lifetime of outstanding service in evangelizing, discipling, and training leaders. Larry
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Grace College seniors Elizabeth Freeman and AnnKelly Myers were awarded for excellence in pursuit of a career in special education at the Indiana Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) convention in Indianapolis on Sept. 27. Dr. Cheryl Bremer, Grace College CEC faculty advisor and associate professor in the School of Education, is a CEC executive board
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