The Winona Lake Jazz Festival will take place on Saturday, July 28, from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. at the Village Amphitheatre on Tabernacle Lawn, 801 Park Ave., Winona Lake, Ind. Part of the Grace College and Village at Winona Festival of Music, the free, outdoor concert will feature six musical groups performing a variety […]
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If you go to a certain Steak n’ Shake in Fort Myers, Fla., late on a Wednesday night, you may find a group of people with almost nothing in common – except for a desire to learn about God. Rich Schnieders, founding pastor of Friendship Grace Brethren Church, and his son-in-law and pastoral intern, Brian Murray,
We noticed this moving photo today from the SEEDnet blog. SEEDnet is an organization in the Charis Fellowship that plants churches in Spiritually, Emotionally, Economically, Developmentally Oppressed areas. This is how Linda looks when we open up the Bible at our Windy Acres church plant in New London, Ohio. Words come to mind such as
Jack Brown, director of Grow New England, the Charis Fellowship church planting effort in the Northeast, has sent an update. It appears below. “But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep (those who have died in Christ), so that you will not grieve as do the rest who
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The Fellowship Council has nominated Pastor Phil Sparling to be become the executive director of the Charis Fellowship, beginning a three-year term after Access2019. This nomination is subject to approval by delegates at Access2018 during the annual business meeting of the Fellowship during lunch on Wednesday, July 26. Phil is senior pastor at Grace Community Church, Auburn
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A team from the Grace Brethren Church in Portis, Kan. (Dave Sarver, pastor), recently traveled to Bow Island, Alberta, as part of the Great Canadian Adventure, to minister with Island of Hope Church (Oliver Edwards, pastor). Yesterday, the Bow Island Commentator featured the group. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read
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The Nominating Committee of the Charis Fellowship is nominating the following people to the 2018-2023 term of the Fellowship Council of the Charis Fellowship: Delegates at the annual corporation meeting of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, Inc. (doing business as Charis Fellowship) conference will select one representative from each region from this list. Region A: Arctic, Hawaii, Mountain Plains,
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Rev. James L. Poyner, 74, of Port Richey, Fla., went home to be with the Lord on July 9, 2018 while under the care of his loving family and HPH Hospice. A native of Waterloo, Iowa born to Claude and LaVera (Hamm) Poyner on July 14, 1943. He married Charlotte in 1965, graduated with a
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Monday’s Warsaw, Ind., Times-Union carried a report of the award given to Terry White, former director of the Brethren Missionary Herald Company and current faculty member at Grace College. He received the Bill Reneker Memorial Community Service Award at Saturday’s Winona Lake Family Festival. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read
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Demonstrations in Haiti over the weekend in protest of a hike in the price of gas has left many ministry groups from the U.S. sheltering in place until protests subside. (See As Haiti protests continue, US citizens warned to shelter in place.) Dan O’Deens, founder and executive director of Breathe Partners, a Charis Fellowship ministry that
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