The recent category two storm, Hurricane Dolly, which hit southwest Texas near the Mexico border Wednesday impacted many people in McAllen, Tex., where the Grace Brethren Church is located. Here’s a report from Pastor Robert Soto as he prepares to leave for the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches in Tampa, Fla. […]
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It was 1971. Apollo 15 was headed for the fourth manned landing on the moon. The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had just been certified, reducing the voting age to 18. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices, and rents. That year, Dale Knepper, of York, Pa., attended Brethren National Youth Conference
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Earlier in the week, singer-songwriter Aaron Shust led worship at Momentum, the annual youth conference sponsored by CE National. He was filling in for Steve Fee, the scheduled worship leader, who needed to stay home for a few days during his infant son’s surgery. (Fee joined his band on Wednesday morning.) Today, Shust blogged about
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Momentum students and staff opened their hearts and their wallets Wednesday night as Jim Brown, pastor of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind. challenged them to give sacrificially to feed 100,000 people. Within half an hour, more than $70,000 had been raised — more than the original goal of the $15,000
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The first full day of Momentun, the annual Grace Brethren youth conference, ended Tuesday evening with a main session challenge from David Nasser (pictured at right) to live the mandate of Micah 6:8 as manifested through Jesus. The verse sets the “I Care” theme for the conference, “… what does the LORD require of you?
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“Ask God to blow your mind this week,” Francis Chan (pictured at right) told the opening session of Momentum East, the annual conference formerly known as Brethren National Youth Conference. The event kicked off this evening (Monday, July 21) at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. Chan, the pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley,
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E. Lee Custer, 92, of Worthington, Ohio, father of longtime Grace Brethren Pastor Jim Custer of Worthington, went to be with his Lord on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at Worthington Christian Village. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and worked at Standard Limestone/Martin Marietta Company for 40 years before retiring. He is preceded in
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Here is a short excerpt of an article on the front page of today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union newspaper about Operation Barnabas. To read the entire article, click here. Local Students Serve In Operation Barnabas Ministry Jennifer PeryamTimes-Union Staff Writer Local students fed the homeless in Chicago and painted a church in Mexico this summer while
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