A promise has been kept. After 32 years, the Grace Brethren ‘Promise of Honor’ program is complete. The recipients, retired pastors and their widows, have all been fully honored by the churches. In 1986, the Board of Ministerial Emergency and Retirement Benefits for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (now Charis Fellowship) crunched the numbers and […]
The young woman looked like my former student. She acted like my former student. She even sounded like her. But she couldn’t be. It had been fifteen years since I had seen her. I remembered her as a quiet middle-schooler who seemed painfully uncomfortable even answering a question in class. So even though I saw
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A GoFundMe account has been set up for Dave Bogue, former Charis Fellowship pastor, to raise money for he and his wife, Elaine, to purchase a new Mobility Conversion Van. Dave most recently led the Grace Brethren Church, Upper Arlington, Ohio, and was a popular speaker at Momentum Youth Conference. (He is the brother of
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The Troy, Ohio, Daily News carries a story about the swearing in of a new state representative from their area, who also happens to be a member of a Charis Fellowship congregation. Jena Powell, who is involved at Grace Brethren Church, Greenville, Ohio (Danny Wright, teaching pastor), is representing Ohio’s 80th District. A portion of
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Operation Barnabas 2019 tour planning is taking place now with a number of interesting and exciting ministry stops already planned for two different tours on two different coasts! The administrative leaders for each team has been announced. Both have much experience working with youth and ministry tours! The East Coast OB team, June 15–July 8,
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Grace College is kicking off Sunset Tours this semester. On most Thursday evenings through April, Grace faculty and staff will host prospective students and their families for Sunset Tours from 4:30 – 7 p.m. Students and parents will learn about the admissions process and financial aid opportunities. They will receive an evening campus tour and
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Jerry W. Michael, 75 of Martinsburg, W. Va., went to be with the Lord on January 10, 2019. Born April 11, 1943 in Martinsburg, he was the son of the late Lewis B. and Viola Mae Michael. He was a 1962 graduate of Hedgesville High School and attended University of Missouri at Kansas City. He
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Word has been received of the death this morning of Jerry Michael, a member of the Grace Brethren Church, Martinsburg, W.Va. (Matt Plott, pastor), who had also served many years on the board of the Grace Brethren Investment Foundation. Continue to pray for his wife, Linda, and their family during this time. An obituary and
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It was my first trip to Alaska, and I was deeply disappointed. We landed in heavy fog, and for the next two days I strained my eyes trying to see where I was going. I started to wonder whether the scenic views I´d heard about actually existed! A friend had invited me to her home,
Grace College history professor, Jared Burkholder, has written a guest post at patheos.com about the purity movement of the 1980s and 1990s. A portion of that post appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Before “true love waits” there was Josh McDowell and Petra Those of us who experienced the evangelical youth group subculture
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