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BMH volunteers (from left) Jim Morrison, Jim and Rosalie Niederhouser, and Esther Morrison worked today in the BMH conference room to prepare a mailing that presents a special opportunity to friends and supporters of the Grace Brethren history and literature ministry. (Natalie Rummel photo) Two new books on Brethren history are being readied for national […]

Kary Oberbrunner, one of the speakers for Driven ’08, talks about his session at this year’s conference, in this video clip. The conference will be held June 26-29 in Westerville, Ohio. It’s the first of several videos that will promote the young adult conference and encourage early registration. The early bird rate ends May 1,

Grace in Action, a new non-profit group which has applied for cooperating organization status with the FGBC and which will be represented at this year’s national conference, has begun a new blog. Check out today’s post at http://www.giablog.org/

Foreign missions in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches was birthed as the result of “enthusiasts who refused to have their ardor cooled” one warm day in August 1900. To learn more, see Moments in Grace Brethren History in the March-April issue of FGBC World. In the photo, Yohan Y. Auraham (second from right), the

A fund raising event to build homes for poor families in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Mozambique and the Philippines is being organized and promoted by a parishioner from a northern Ohio Grace Brethren Church. Here is an excerpt of an article in today’s Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal. To read the entire article, click here. ”The folks

The following obituary appears in today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union: WINONA LAKE, IN – E. Philip Dick, 65, peacefully passed away April 4, 2008, at Goshen Hospital after a very courageous two-year battle with kidney cancer. He was born March 30, 1943, to Paul E. and Esther Hostetler Dick and grew up in Winchester, Va. On

Former Grace College coach and athletic director Phil Dick, son of the late Paul Dick who pastored the Grace Brethren church in Winchester, Virginia, for more than three decades, died this morning in Goshen, Indiana, after a two-year battle with cancer. More details will be released as they are available, but a memorial service at

The first-ever building of the Gateway Grace Community Church in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, is underway. Pastor Dan O’Deens writes: Construction has begun! Our first building is under way! YEAH! We are certainly excited about that…but…for Gateway Church it has never been nor ever will be about the physical building! If a church exists and it does

Ivanildo Trindade (left in photo, with restaurant owner in Paris), associate pastor of outreach ministries at the Grace Brethren Church of Wooster, Ohio, is currently in the Central African Republic with a missions team. He is blogging about the experience. Here is a short excerpt. You can read his ongoing reports by logging onto http://woostercar.blogspot.com/

Retired Grace Brethren pastor and longtime Brethren Missionary Herald Co. board member Russ Ogden (shown here with his wife, Betty — Joan Snively photo) has completed his Ph.D. degree. Russ, who lives near Indianapolis, Indiana, says, “I have finally met the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies with emphasis in