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Prayer Requested for Three-Year-Old’s Heart Surgery

Please pray fervently for Cami Gingerich, the three-year old daughter of Galen and Melody Gingerich, and the youngest granddaughter of Pastor Forrest and Arlene Jackson of Dayton, Ohio. Cami will have final evaluation tests on Friday at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, which will be followed with major open-heart surgery the morning of Monday, June 9.

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Ohio Church Impacts Community With Compassion

Southern Hills Community Church (Mike Stern, pastor), a Grace Brethren church in North Royalton/Strongsville, Ohio, recently impacted its community with a “Compassion Sunday.” “Small things done with great love will change the world.” That’s what the folks at Southern Hills Community Church believe and strive to live out daily. It’s also the reason they engage

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MasterWorks Festival Set to Open June 22

The MasterWorks Festival, a four-week classical performing arts training program that offers advanced and passionate students of music, dance, opera, and theatre the opportunity to learn from professional Christian performing artists in their respective field, will be held in Winona Lake, Indiana, June 22-July 20, 2008. Located in the picturesque community of Winona Lake, Indiana,

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German Exchange Student Baptized Before Return

Teens and youth leaders from the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church gathered on the shore of Winona Lake this past Sunday to witness the baptism of a German exchange student who has been attending the church since last October. He accepted Christ this spring and asked to be baptized before going home. (Greg Zuercher

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Urban Hope Training Director in the News

Brent Saba (pictured), the Director of Training at Urban Hope Training Center, the Grace Brethren urban center in Philadelphia, unwittingly became the lead anecdote in a feature story this week. Here is an excerpt. To read the entire story, click on https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080601/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices_stranded_motorists;_ylt=AroShmm16Z4321SGSV7K7uPZn414 Brent Saba had just dropped a church group off at Philadelphia International Airport

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Winona Lake Church Goes “Out Plantin'”

Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor) has been emphasizing the responsibility of each believer to plant seed (i.e. give a witness for Christ) in the natural forums where each person has been placed. This Sunday, June 1, the entire church family is being encouraged, instead of meeting in regular ABFs and

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A Year of ‘Fifties’ for Ron and Willa Henry

This is the year of “Fifties” for Ron and Willa Henry of Warsaw, Indiana. Today (May 31) is their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married May 31, 1958 in Martinsburg, Pa., with the Revs. Richard Grant and R. Wayne Snider officiating. The couple have two children. Michelle (and spouse Bill) Heffelfinger, Granger, Indiana; and Monica

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Alta Loma Church Does Creative Outreach

Pastor Roy Halberg and his outreach team from Grace Fellowship, the Grace Brethren church in Alta Loma, California, are working hard at some creative outreach ideas. In this photo Alta Loma parishioners operated from a booth at this week’s Second Avenue Street Fair in Upland. The church handed out bottles of water wrapped with million

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