Today’s BBC News carries a report of the signing of a cease fire agreement in the Central African Republic, though fighting has apparently continued in some parts of the country. Please continue to pray for the C.A.R.– a country where the Grace Brethren have ministered for nearly 100 years. A portion of the BBC story […]
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A Wednesday full of fun opportunities awaited the more than 2,000 students attending this year’s Momentum Youth Conference. The morning opened with Power Trax sessions, breakout groups with topics ranging from purity to postmodernism. During the morning session at Edman chapel, Gred Stier, founder and president of Dare 2 Share Ministries International, shared his remarkable
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The 2014 edition of Momentum Youth Conference kicked off Tuesday evening with the opening session in the Edman Chapel at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. Ed Lewis, executive director of CE National, opened the first session, addressing more than 2,000 students, youth staff, and guests gathered for worship and teaching. “We’re committed to Jesus, committed
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“Fellowshifting is not a one-time event,” said Bartley Sawatsky, executive director of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC) as he opened the 2014 national conference Thursday evening at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Sawatksy is also the pastor of Grace Community Church, Mississauga, Ontario. He began his talk comparing the FGBC to
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She wasn’t the kind of girl one would single out to train for leadership. Quiet and shy, she was content to teach a Bible story to an imaginary Sunday School class, using her mother’s flannel-graph figures. She didn’t look like a leader who would direct a national organization into a new era. But as Janet
Since assuming the role of executive director of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC) in July 2013, I have spent time considering the essence of our movement. That fall, we began discussions around our identity at our Focus Retreats. This Identity Initiative, led by Dave Guiles, is instrumental in reviving the important and ongoing discussion
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“Conference” is a long tradition in Grace Brethren history — it predates the founding of the Grace Brethren movement in the late 1930s. In fact, you’ll find an annual national meeting on the calendars of most of the other branches of the Brethren family tree. For those of us in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren
BMH Books author, Dr. John C. Whitcomb, was part of a ceremony in early May that signified the launch of the Ark Encounter themed attraction at Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio. A full-sized Noah’s Ark is expected to open in the summer of 2016. Dr. Ken Hamm, CEO of Answers in
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Dr. Nate Bosch, director of the Center for Lakes and Streams at Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., was the guest speaker at the annual gathering of Lake Wawasee residents recently. (Lake Wawasee is the largest natural lake wholly contained within in Indiana. It is located southeast of Syracuse in Kosciusko County.) The online news site,
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The Center for Lakes and Streams at Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., received $15,000 from Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. to promote environmental education through water-related STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) initiatives in local schools and through the Northern Indiana Lakes Festival community education initiative. The center is using the money to increase environmental
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