A celebration service for Ed Jackson, former Grace Brethren pastor, church planter, and mentor was held March 22, 2018, at Grace Church, Powell, Ohio (Jeff Stimpson, pastor). Ed died March 16, 2018, in Westerville, Ohio, joining his wife, Polly, and son, Jim, in heaven. Below is a recording of his memorial service. Click here to view …
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The Wikes always wanted a big family, but they didn’t imagine adoption, orphans, and birth families would be part of their regular dinner table conversations. But the Father had other plans He would carry out in their lives. Jeremy Wike, lead pastor of Community of Hope, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Columbia City, Ind., and …
This news item came from CE National, a national ministry in the Charis Fellowship. Congratulations to Art! Thank You Art Bushen! CE National has been blessed for the past 12 years to have had Art Bushen on our staff as the facilities coordinator. After 20 years of overseeing the properties of Grace College, Art came …
When my parents separated in the late ’40’s and waved goodbye to the church we attended (and the wave was returned), our grandparents took my brother and sister and me to the new start-up Grace Brethren church meeting at the Harrisburg, Pa., YWCA. Wen when our grandparents donated land for a new church building just a …
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Jack Brown, pastor of North Shore Bible Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Danvers, Mass., reports that the church held an Easter outreach on Saturday. “There were nearly 40 children from our community, along with their parents who came to our church to make their own Easter Baskets,” he said. “Please pray some would return …
Nathan Bryant, executive director of Assist Church Expansion, a church-planting organization within the Charis Fellowship (Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches) recently shared an update on their ministry. Nathan Bryant- ASSIST network from GraceConnect (BMH) on Vimeo.
Grace Church, Ashland, Ohio (Dan Allan, pastor) will host North of 55, a one-day conference for those 55 and older, on Saturday, April 7, 2018. The conference will feature guest speaker, Knute Larson, former pastor of The Chapel in Akron, Ohio and Ashland Grace. He is the author of three books and two commentaries and …
A celebration of life for Eileen G. Miller, 93, former missionary to Brazil, will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Big Valley Church, Modesto, Calif. She passed peacefully into the arms of her Savior on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, with family at her bedside. Eileen was a native of Modesto, Calif. …
The Pittsburgh-area community where little Aiden Katip lived and died came around his family over the weekend with a spaghetti dinner fundraiser. WPXI, who reported on the the fire that took Aiden’s life, shared the story. Aiden’s grandfather, Dr. Bill Katip, president of Grace College, is quoted. A portion of the story appears below. Click …
Grace Community Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, senior pastor), is opening their new 6,000 square foot indoor playground the week after Easter. This week, the opening of the playground was featured in the Elkhart County edition of the paper. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read …
