Randi Walle

The three rooms at Grace Brethren Church of Norwalk, Calif., that will house Urban Hope Training Center Los Angeles are currently being renovated. The Operation Barnabas teams began work over the summer and more work has followed. A major push is underway for the first week of October with several CE National staff members heading

Grace College Homecoming will take place Friday and Saturday, October 5 and 6, 2018, on the Winona Lake, Ind., campus. The weekend is designed for alumni, students and families to reconnect with friends, tour campus, enjoy entertainment, competition and more. For the complete event schedule and to register, visit the Grace College website. “The focus

Encompass World Partners staff members Bill and Becky work with refugees and displaced people in the United Kingdom. Their “Speaking Allowed” classes offer them a great opportunity to share the love of Jesus while helping their students converse better in English— a needed skill for any refugee or immigrant. Rarely do Bill and Becky get

The Grace College Literature, Language, and Communication (LLC) Department is pleased to welcome Marjorie Maddox, professor of English and creative writing at Lock Haven University, to campus this fall. An award-winning poet who has authored 11 collections of poetry and hundreds of short stories and essays, Maddox will read from her published works and sign

This fall, Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., welcomes four new faculty members to campus: Dr. Lindsey Richter, assistant professor of modern languages (French), Dr. Tyler Scott, assistant professor of physics, Mr. Tobias Forshtay, instructor of agribusiness, and Ms. Erica Elliott, instructor of digital marketing. Dr. Lindsey Richter holds a Ph.D. in French from Princeton University.

For the first time in decades, Grace’s men’s soccer team is ranked. The Lancers made the leap into the NAIA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll, landing at No. 24. This marks Grace’s first ranking in at least two decades with records lacking prior to 2000. Grace received 93 points from the national voters to be ranked

Hannah Hubbard has joined the staff of GraceConnect for the fall semester as a journalism intern and administrative assistant. She is assisting with the day-to-day operations of GraceConnect and BMH Books and will be writing articles for GraceConnect.us and the GraceConnect eNews. Hannah is a native of Trufant, Mich., and is majoring in journalism at

Caleb Niemi, a third-year marketing major at Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., recently completed an internship at OrthoWorx, the local non-profit dedicated to capitalizing on the orthopedic resources and expertise in the Warsaw area. While at OrthoWorx, Niemi and fellow interns created DiscoverMe, a program to educate eighth-graders about opportunities in the manufacturing industry. DiscoverMe

William Catling, sculptor and visual artist from Riverside, Calif., will present his exhibit, “Effigies of the fragile,” on Friday, Sept. 21, at an opening reception in the Mount Memorial Hall Art Gallery, 200 Seminary Dr., Winona Lake. Catling will give an artist talk at 7 p.m., with the reception following until 9 p.m. The community

Dr. Jared Burkholder, the Grace College history professor who recently led the Sixth Brethren World Assembly at Winona Lake, Ind., recently ruminated on the changing names in the Brethren movement on his blog, The Hermeneutic Circle. (He chaired a panel discussion at the Assembly on the names of the various Brethren groups.) A portion of his blog