Randi Walle

The final meeting of the Brethren Encyclopedia Board prior to the 300th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Brethren movement took place yesterday in the archaeology room of Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. Members of the board are comprised of representatives of six of the major Brethren groups descending from the baptism of […]

Robert Lehigh (left), president of the board of Brethren Encyclopedia, Inc., yesterday presented Dr. William Eberly (right) of North Manchester, Indiana, with a plaque celebrating Eberly’s service since 1985 as editor of the Monograph Series for the board. Eberly’s current project is a landmark translation from the German of Dr. Marcus Maier’s “The Schwarzenau Brethren”

Former Grace College coach and athletic director Phil Dick (shown here with two of his grandchildren) has been battling cancer since being diagnosed with kidney cancer on January 9, 2006. This week he is being moved into the hospice area of the Goshen (Indiana) hospital. His daughter, Michelle, has been posting regular updates during Phil’s

A bit of Winona Lake, Ind. history fell this morning as the building known as the Administration Center at the Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church was torn down. The building, located at the corner of 13th and College, was built as a gymnasium in 1906 for the Winona College, a normal school that existed in

Today’s Columbus Dispatch includes a story about Carlo Corral (in photo at right), the children’s pastor and Hispanic church planter at the Southwest Grace Brethren Church in Grove City, Ohio. To read the complete story, click here. Bilingual clown translates as funnyEven in a parking lot, Chulo the Clown can create magic. With a few

An article in today’s Farmington, New Mexico, newspaper gives background on the new interim city manager, who comes from a well-known Grace Brethren family and has served in a Grace Brethren church. Here is an excerpt–to read the entire article click here. FARMINGTON — Though he hasn’t been at City Hall long, interim City Manager

A Grace College student was featured in the local (Warsaw, Indiana) newspaper this week for having spent her spring break ministering at an orphanage in Mexico, and having written a book about the experience. Here is an excerpt from the story on Hope Rauchenstein (pictured with orphan). To read the entire article click here. WINONA

Retirement doesn’t seem to have a place in Wayne Beaver’s vocabulary. (He is pictured at right with his wife, Dorothy.) The veteran missionary and emeritus professor at Grace Theological Seminary is now helping his son, Dan, begin a Bible school in the Philippines. To learn more, see the March-April issue of FGBC World, which is

Today’s Indianapolis Star includes a story about Life Spring Church, a new Grace Brethren congregation in Brownsburg, Ind., just outside of Indianapolis. To read the complete story, click here. Parishioners meet at fire headquarters In a building designed to train firefighters to save people from car accidents and fires, a group of believers is spending

The investigation into the death of Jeffery S. “Scott” Noel, who attended the Grace Brethren Church of Portis, Kansas (Dave Sarver, pastor), continues as authorities search for a sedan and at least two people wanted for questioning in connection with the Tuesday murder. Continue to pray for the people of Portis and Pastor Sarver during