From the South Bend (IN) Tribune “Book Briefs”: Author will sign books in Winona Lake The Rev. Gilbert Hawkins will hold a lecture and signing of his book “Marriage Lasts a Lifetime” at the Billy Sunday Visitors Center, 1101 Park Ave. in Winona Lake. The event will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Hawkins has […]
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An article in today’s Altoona (PA) Mirror celebrates the life of Fred C. Ebersole, Jr. (pictured), of the Vicksburg Grace Brethren Church in Hollidaysburg, PA (Roger K. Myers, pastor) who died this past week in an ultralight aircraft crash. To read the entire article, click on http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/15045.html?nav=742 BROOKES MILLS — Fred C. Ebersole Jr. and
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Today’s Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal features a Grace Brethren church plant just off the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Here is a short excerpt. To read the entire article, click onhttp://www.ohio.com/news/9657532.html The Rev. Jonathan Herron brought together 10 people last year to begin a start-from-scratch church that could mesh orthodox theology and unorthodox methods.
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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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