Ruth Rebecca Snyder of Grace Village Retirement Community in Winona Lake, Ind., died at 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at Grace Village Health Care at the age of 97. She was born on November 16, 1921 in Mineral Point, Pa., to Verna (Snyder) Shaffer and William J. Shaffer. On April 6, 1941, she […]
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Grace College’s baseball team picked up five academic honors at the national level. David Anderson, Jacob Hammel, Logan Swartzentruber and Sid Elford were all named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes for the Lancers, and Hunter Ackerman was an NCCAA Scholar-Athlete. To achieve NAIA Scholar-Athlete status, a student-athlete must post a GPA of at least 3.5 and have achieved upperclassman status. To read the NAIA’s release,
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Grace College and Seminary, Winona Lake, Ind., is the recipient of a new $250,000 grant from The Kern Family Foundation, bringing the total gifted from the foundation to $450,000. The grant will be used to capitalize on the growth in Grace’s accelerated seminary degree program which allows students to earn a bachelor of arts in biblical
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New Generation Community Church, a Charis Fellowship church replant in the midst of Harlem, is featured as this week’s “Church of the Week” on WMCA AM570. The broadcast featured an interview with lead pastor, Laban Reeves and a short message from him about generosity. The interview digs into Laban’s journey to NYC as a music
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From the Operation Barnabas blog: Day Four- June 18 – East Team Today was another full day of training. The students are doing a great job! Grace College provided the team with a Chick-fil-a lunch and a t-shirt. After lunch, TK, Sherylin, and Dave left our team and headed out to California to do orientation
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Barb Wooler, director of crisis response for Encompass World Partners, has reported on activities in southwest Ohio following a number of tornados on Memorial Day. Part of her report is below. Click here to read more. Several communities in Dayton, Ohio have had a great opportunity to try their hand at “making lemonade” out of
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“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think (Eph. 3:20).” This verse was written on the cake celebrating the separation of Grace Church Lancaster, Pa. (Scott Becker, lead pastor) from Grace Church Lititz, Pa. (Dr. Tim Boal, lead pastor) on Sunday, May 26. After three years of
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Members and attenders of the former Sidney Grace Brethren Church in southeast Kosciusko County, Ind., gathered in mid-May for an evening of fellowship and celebration in the building that once housed the congregation. Organized by Brent Sandy, whose father, Rollin Sandy, led the church from 1958-1981, the event on the evening of May 11, 2019
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Operation Barnabas, the annual summer ministry/discipleship program sponsored by CE National, is off and running. Here’s Sunday’s post from the East Team, which is training in Philadelphia. Follow their activities on the Operation Barnabas blog. The team had the opportunity to lead worship at Urban Hope Community Church this morning. We had a delicious lunch
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The newsletter for Inspire – Charis Pastors Network has carried news of a marriage, new ministries, and numerous ordinations recently. Here’s a compilation of news from the last few issues. Justin Franchino, pastor of Peninsula Grace Church in Soldotna, Alaska, married Jill Wippermann on June 8, 2019, in Meadow Vista, Calif. (Click here to learn
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