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Excerpted from today’s Ventura (CA) Star. John McIntosh is pastor of the sponsoring church, Grace Brethren of Simi Valley. To read the entire article, click on http://www.venturacountystar.com:80/news/2007/aug/14/gourley-resigns-from-grace-brethren/ Terry Gourley, who helped Grace Brethren School’s transition from an 8-man football power to an section 11-man champion, has stepped down as football coach and athletic director for […]

Grace Brethren North American Missions (GBNAM) is featured in an innovative and educational television series, Today’s Family. It will be included in a segment on “Reaching Your World for Christ” in the series “Until The Whole World Hears.” It will be aired on WE, Women’s Entertainment Network, ABC Family Network, and on PAX networks regionally.

Today’s Johnston (Pa.) Tribune Democrat includes a story about Pam Blough, wife of Rev. Duane Blough, former pastor of Singer Hill Grace Brethren Church. She has recorded a compact disc of hymns that have helped see her through her husband’s battle with cancer. (The couple is pictured at right.) To read the entire story, click

Summer is winding down on the campus of Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Ind. Student leaders are arriving this week, with new students and their parents coming to campus on Saturday, August 18. Here are a few things that are happening this week… 8/13 RAs and GSO leaders at Camp Adventure

In His Presence is the theme of the third annual discipleship conference at the Grace Brethren Church of Columbus, Ohio. The conference, to be held Friday and Saturday, February 8 and 9, 2008, will focus on learning to hear God’s voice by spending time with Him. The conference begins at 7 p.m., Friday and ends

Neil Cole, executive director of Church Multiplication Associates, author of Organic Church, and pastor of Awakening Chapel, a Grace Brethren church in Signal Hill, Calif., will be leading two workshops in Long Beach, CA in the coming weeks. The sessions will focus on leadership in the organic church. Saturday August 25, Long Beach, CA, The

Driven, the young adult conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, has announced the dates for 2008. It will be held June 26 to 29, 2008 at a new site — the campus of Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. For more information, see www.drivenblog.wordpress.com or e-mail the Driven staff at info@drivenconference.com.

We’ve received word that Kathern Lingenfelter, wife of long-time Grace Brethren pastor Galen Lingenfelter, died August 9. She is also the mother of BMH Books author Dr. Sherwood Lingenfelter (and Grace Brethren International Missions board member). Her funeral will be held at 12:30 p.m., Saturday, August 11 at the Grace Brethren Church of South Pasadena,

Grace Brethren International Missions (GBIM), in their commitment to excellent training, is offering practical “how-to” workshops called On-Mission Training to help equip churches for local and global cross-cultural ministry. The next On-Mission Training is scheduled for September 15 in the Lancaster, Pa. area at Grace Church at Willow Valley. This is the third On-Mission Training

Anybody fishing out there? If you have followed the challenge given by Jim Brown, the 2008 Moderator for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, to “go fishing” for Jesus, we’d love to hear your stories! A site has been set up for you to tell your experiences. “This site will encourage us we hear how