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Margaret Zook (left) of Sacramento, California, and JoAnn Cron (right) of Greenville, South Carolina, took a moment to be photographed with Alexander Mack. Mack (actually an impersonator from Harrisonburg, Virginia) gave a very informative and insightful first-person lecture on the founder of the Brethren movement.

At the Alexander Mack Schule (school) the tour group spent quite some time learning a timeline of Brethren history, seeing a video on the impact of Brethren Service Volunteers after World War II, and learning the beliefs of the early Brethren. Here Dr. David Plaster, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church in Worthington, Ohio, gives

The first day of the Brethren World Assembly concluded with a mass choir concert in the Riding Hall. The featured choir was the choir from McPherson College in Kansas, a Church of the Brethren school, but several local German choirs performed, as well. In this concluding number, all singers from all choirs joined together in

The Brethren Heritage Tour (all but one couple) has arrived in Marburg, Germany, and will be going this Saturday afternoon to Schwarzenau for the first time. Although several couples of the tour missed connections, we expect the entire group to be together by early afternoon this Saturday. Tired from an all-night flight from Newark to

Grace College is one of the best colleges and universities in the Midwest according to The Princeton Review. The New York City-based education services company selected the school as one of 159 institutions it recommends in its “Best in the Midwest” section on its website feature 2009 Best Colleges: Region by Region. According to The

Richard Todd, senior pastor of the Community Grace Brethren Church of Whittier, Calif., was recognized as Pastor of the Year this morning (Thursday) by the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers. (See photo at right.) “He has demonstrated competence and faithfulness in pastoral ministry for 37 years,” said Tom Hocking, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church

“We need to be faithful in depositing God’s truth into trustworthy men,” said John McIntosh, incoming moderator of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, last night at the final evening of the annual conference of the fellowship. The conference concluded today (Thursday) in Tampa, Fla. McIntosh, who is senior pastor of the Grace Brethren Church

Wednesday afternoon, about 70 participants in the annual conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches visited a Buddhist temple. The visit was an effort to learn about Buddhism in order to be more effective in reaching people for Jesus Christ. It also gave participants an opportunity to experience a culture where many Grace Brethren

GBIM missionary Barb Wooler and Madame Zokoe, the Africa-based director of Project Hope and Charite ministry to orphans in the Central African Republic, respond here to the offering of more than $30,000 taken Tuesday evening at the FGBC national conference in Tampa for the support of the orphan center: Dear family in Christ, Words cannot