More than a year ago, Rod Finster, pastor of Echo Valley Grace in Tremont, Pa., was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. This morning comes an update and another request for prayer: Rod’s cancer has progressed rapidly in the past few weeks. He is on a new treatment but so far it appears to not […]
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An Expansion Bootcamp hosted by Assist Church Expansion is scheduled for March 27-30, 2019, at York Grace Brethren Church, York, Pa. The three-day event will include intensive coaching, strategic planning, peer mentoring, and training that will help church leaders and their teams develop a great plan, establish tangible action steps, and connect with ongoing coaching
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Jerry Michael, who served many years as a board member at the Grace Brethren Investment Foundation, and has been a leader in the Rosemont Grace Brethren Church, Martinsburg, W.Va., has been admitted to care at the Hospice of the Panhandle. The family asks for prayer during this time.
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Zach Doppelt had pastored in Virginia for over ten years when, without much warning, God called him to pastor a Charis Fellowship congregation in Ohio. It’s meant a transition for his family that came out of nowhere. But to the Doppelts, this was a call worth following. Zach moved to Dayton, Ohio, to pastor Basore Road
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Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., is reaping the financial benefits of energy-saving projects completed on campus in 2017 and 2018. Kirby Dipert, field engineer at Lockheed Martin Energy, recently presented a check for $32,392.09 to Grace College from NIPSCO. Lockheed Martin Energy administers NIPSCO’s energy efficiency programs. According to Dipert, the check’s value represents the
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Willetta “Willie” Edmiston of Warsaw, Ind., died at home at 12:23 p.m. on Saturday, January 5, 2019, at the age of 93. She was formerly a resident of Grace Village Retirement Community of Winona Lake, Ind. Willie was born on April 14, 1925, in Los Angeles County, Calif. to Albert Fred Hanson and Blanche Hester
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A fire at the end of the morning service yesterday at First Grace Brethren Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Dayton, Ohio (Bruce Jackson, pastor), caused a few moments of excitement at the end of the service and apparently caused minor damage to the church. It also forced a change in location for a meeting
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Today is the last day to order the 2019 Charis Fellowship Handbook at the special advance price of $8. After today, the Handbook will be $10 a single copy, and $9 each for 10 or more. The 2019 Handbook, which is being produced by BMH Books and GraceConnect, provides up-to-date information that will enhance your
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Retired Charis Fellowship pastor, Bernie Simmons, is downsizing and moving. He’d like to find a home for some of the books he no longer has use for. Some of them are from the collection of his father, Philip Simmons, who also pastored in the Fellowship. Among them are Brethren annuals dating back to 1925, Grace
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The Southwest Focus Retreat, the annual gathering of Charis Fellowship leaders in the southwestern U.S., takes to a new location later this month. The retreat will be held at the Camp Lawrence Daley Conference Center at Camp Mt. Crags in Calabasas, Calif. The area was recently impacted by wildfires, but the conference center itself remained
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