Randi Walle

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 […]

WLGBC youth pastor Tim Wright baptized German exchange student Lukas in Winona Lake this past Sunday upon Lukas’ request to be baptized before he returns to Germany.

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 http://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

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

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

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

Bottles of “Living Water” wrapped in a million-dollar-bill tract were handed out at the street fair by an outreach team from the Alta Loma church. (photos courtesy Roy Halberg)

YIB (Your Intrepid Blogger) met this afternoon for several hours with Twin Cities church planter George Stagg (pictured in the heart of Uptown) who is seeking to establish a Grace Brethren church in the Uptown/Lake Calhoun area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. George is encouraged by several developments–several individuals have come to Christ, and there are

Excerpted from the Brazil (Indiana) Times: Two students each from Vigo, Clay and Sullivan counties will receive four-year, full-tuition scholarships as the 2008 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars for their respective counties. In addition to full tuition to the Indiana college of their choice, each scholar will receive an annual stipend of up to $800 for

The tornadoes that ripped through Iowa north of Waterloo last Sunday, May 25, hit the home of a family from the Grace Brethren Church of Waterloo, David and Cindy Schake. Here is part of a diary, supplied by Waterloo pastor Kelvin Cooke, of how the church responded over the next several days (Waterloo Courier photo)