Peggy Free (right), from the Grace Brethren church in Seal Beach, California (Don Shoemaker, pastor), wrote an article for the church’s newsletter entitled “Laughing Through Cancer.” Here is a short excerpt. For the entire story of how this courageous woman’s wacky sense of humor helped her through a crisis, click on http://mysite.verizon.net/resw2g2p/stagegirlpeg/id1.html If you happened […]
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Author Madeleine L’Engle died last night in Connecticut, at the age of 88. Best known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, L’Engle was the author of more than 60 books for adults and young readers, most of which were published by FSG. By 2004, A Wrinkle in Time
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“Honoring a Legacy, Embracing a Future: Three Hundred Years of Brethren Heritage” is an academic conference sponsored by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College. The conference, which will be October 11-13, 2007, is designed for scholars, pastors, leaders, and others in various forms of ministry. It will feature plenary
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The Northern Atlantic Fellowship of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches is holding a Women’s Ministries Symposium on Saturday, September 29, 2007, featuring as speakers two of the top leadership women in the Women of Grace USA organization. Women of Grace president Janet Minnix and Women’s Spectrum magazine editor Linda Michael will be the featured
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Grace College men’s basketball coach Jim Kessler (center, red shirt in photo) is featured in in this week’s edition of The Paper, a weekly newspaper in Kosciusko County, Indiana. The article, titled “Kessler Uses Basketball as Ministry Tool,” emphasizes Coach K’s goal of leading his players to make a difference for Christ in the world.
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This morning’s Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette contains an article which references a “moving adjustment program” at the Grace Brethren Church of Lititz, PA (Scott Distler, pastor). Here is a short excerpt–to read the entire article click on http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07249/814759-55.stm When Amy Holmes moved from her hometown of Alexandria, Va., to Peters two years ago with her husband
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A review of Kary Oberbrunner’s recent BMH Book Called is currently posted on “Christian Book Previews.” The reviewer says, “This is a challenging book—one that probably needs to be read more than once in order to fully absorb all of its’ teachings.” To read the entire review, click on http://www.christianbookpreviews.com/christian-book-detail.php?isbn=0884690873
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Gilbert Hawkins, retired Grace Brethren pastor who has written and self-published a book on marriage and divorce, is featured in the Elkhart/Kosciusko edition of “Senior Life” publications this issue. To read the publication online, click through to page 9 on http://www.the-papers.com/OnlinePubs/default.aspx?pub=SL&subpub=SLA&pubdate=09-05-07-09-30-07
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Influential conservative leader Dr. D. James Kennedy died Wednesday morning, church officials reported. Kennedy, whose retirement as senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Florida was recently announced, died “peacefully, in his sleep, at home” around 3 a.m., said the Rev. Ronald Siegenthaler of the megachurch, according to Sun-Sentinel.com. Kennedy was 76. Also founder
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A shout-out to Chuck Winter for helping us spot this article in the Yakima (Washington) Herald-Republic:by Brandon Riel Imagine a summer of riding on a non-air-conditioned blue bus through the hot and humid climate characteristic to the East Coast, stopping to put on park programs for local children, helping with church maintenance, encouraging existing Christians,
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