June 2018

Matt Brown, Son of Jack and Christine, Succumbs to Heart Disease

Word has been received of the death of Matt Brown, the son of Pastor Jack and Christine Brown in Glouster, Mass. Jack, who is the executive director of Grow New England in addition to leading the North Shore Bible Church in Essex, Mass., wrote this morning: Our son, Matthew went home to be with Jesus […]

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Operation Barnabas Ministry Kicks Off in California

Operation Barnabas, the three-week discipleship program sponsored by CE National, kicked off over the weekend in Norwalk, Calif. According to the Operation Barnabas blog, students arrived Saturday morning and, after lunch and a nap, dove into ministry! On Saturday night, they attended Saddleback Church and had the opportunity to meet Pastor Rick Warren. Orientation continues

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Circuit-Riding Preachers

Yesterday’s post on the SEEDnet blog by Nathan Wells, executive director SEEDnet, the Charis Fellowship organization that provides hope to Spiritually, Emotionally, Economically, and Developmentally through the development of churches, provided an interesting description of what the folks at SEEDnet do! They are circuit-riding preachers! Check it out here. I was invited to be the “circuit-riding

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Broken Borders, Broken Families, Broken Hearts

Don Shoemaker, who chairs the Social Concerns Committee for the Charis Fellowship, recently sent an update addressing the recent situation involving U.S. immigration. Click here to read it in its entirety. The situation at our nation’s border where families are separated is a very fluid situation.  The President has just signed an executive order.  By

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INSPIRE Is New Name for Association of Grace Brethren Ministers

In a video announcement this morning sent to members and others in the Charis Fellowship, Mark Lingenfelter, president of the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers, revealed a new name and logo for the national network of pastors in the Charis Fellowship. “For almost 125 years a professional organization has existed for pastors in our movement

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