Barb Wooler, director of crisis response for Encompass World Partners, is working with Jonathan Nasby to organize several teams to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. Here’s her report: TWO UPDATES ON HURRICANE IDA, LOUISIANA – We have a team and possibly two deploying to Louisiana. – We will be serving with Samaritan’s Purse, […]
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The 2021 incoming class at Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., is one that will go down in school history. This fall, the institution welcomed an all-time high of 471 new students to its campus. Grace’s incoming class is also the most socioeconomically and ethnically diverse since the institution opened in 1937. The school’s overall enrollment totals
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Dan O’Deens was living just two hours away from New York City when the World Trade Center towers were attacked on September 11, 2001. Feeling the pull to help, he drove into the city that night and spent the next three weeks serving with the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army was one of dozens of
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Dr. Dan Wallace, Greek scholar and senior research professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, will present a series of lectures at Grace College and Seminary during Homecoming Weekend, 2021. The Biblical and Ancient Manuscript Center is sponsoring the lectures on October 1, 2, and 3, 2021. On Friday, October 1, Dr. Wallace
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Registration for the East Focus Retreat for Charis Fellowship ministry leaders is now avaialble. The theme this year is ‘Movement,’ based on the Charis core value of ‘Biblical Mission’ — ‘For this reason I left you in Crete, to set in order what remains…’ Titus 1:5. The retreat will be October 18-20, 2021, at the Holiday Inn Hotel
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The 2021 Grace College engineering graduating class: Pavle Popovic, Abbott Joy, and Cody Holmes, all passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Mechanical exam on their first try. The FE exam is generally the first step in the process of becoming a professional licensed engineer and has a 71 percent pass rate. “We are very pleased with the
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Grace College track and field program has announced that Amy Rice is the team’s full-time throws coach. She will become the third full-time member of Grace’s track and field/cross country programs, joining track and field head coach Michael Moffitt and cross country head coach Jake Poyner. “Track has always had a special place in my heart. I love helping athletes
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Lynn Shaffer was serving at Vacation Bible School at Gulfview Grace Church in Port Richey, Fla. (Paul Poyner, lead pastor), when she was struck by an idea for a creative way to meet a need in the Central African Republic. She began making and selling art work, with the proceeds going to Hand in Hand
Recently Dr. Dave Guiles, executive director of Encompass World Partners, released this update on several crises that are affecting the world. Below is that information. (Updates on opportunities to serve will also be posted to graceconnect.us.) Thank you for praying with us. Today we are sharing an urgent update from our Crisis Response Network regarding
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On August 29, Hurricane Ida made landfall in Port Fouchon, La., as a category 4 hurricane, according to The Weather Channel. Ida weakened to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression as it moved northeast, causing severe flooding and tornados across New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Read more about the
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