Grace Brethren International Missions executive director Dave Guiles prayed for the newly-commissioned missionaries as GBIM board members and conference attenders surrounded the candidates and laid hands on them, consecrating them for missionary service.
On the very same grassy knoll just off Park Avenue and the Eighth Street Hill in Winona Lake, Indiana, where the Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church was founded in 1900, today’s missionary commissioning service was held. The marker reads, “On this knoll, September 4, 1900, the Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church
Among the missionary candidates who were commissioned was Karen Courter (kneeling, center, with long dark hair), the daughter of Pastor Doug and Barbara Courter of the Calvary Grace Brethren Church in Hagerstown, Maryland. Karen will be going to the Central African Republic to assist with the growing orphans’ ministry there.
A Mariachi band, Irish folk singers and dancers, and ethnic food from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America filled the Rodeheaver Auditorium as conference guests ate, visited with missionaries, and circulated from one food station to another. The International Food Fest was followed by another trek to the Tabernacle Field tent for a corporation
Bumping Into Tommy Lasorda at Winona Lake
Roy Polman, pastor of the Cherry Valley Grace Brethren Church in Beaumont, California, and his wife, Judy (at left in photo) were eating breakfast last Friday, July 27 at Maria’s House of Pancakes just off Rt. 30 and County Road 250E at the entrance to Winona Lake, Indiana. They thought the guy in the pink
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Norwalk Honored as ‘Church of the Week’ by KKLA
Pastor Wayne Ayer (left) of the Norwalk, California, Grace Brethren Church, this past Sunday, July 29, received a plaque from radio station KKLA’s Jon Robberson (r) as Norwalk was honored as the “Church of the Week.” Congregants picked up KKLA program guides and were invited to listen to Pastor Ayer interviewed live on KKLA’s The
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Equip07 is Off and Running
Dave Rank (at keyboard) and the worship team from the Winona Lake, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church led worship for the opening session of Equip07, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. The conference is meeting all this week on the Grace College & Seminary campus in Winona Lake, Indiana, with a focus
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Brad Powell, pastor of NorthRidge church in Plymouth, Michigan, gave the challenge in the opening session of Equip07 Monday evening in the Orthopaedic Capital Center on the Grace College & Seminary campus. Powell’s forceful message was that, to be truly biblical, the church must deal continually with change, yet remaining true to its mission to
In the Monday evening plenary session of Equip07, the FGBC moderator Tim Boal (at right, with microphone) called Pastor Gerardo Leiton of the Iglesia Comunal Cristiana, an Hispanic Grace Brethren church in the Tampa area, to the platform. Leiton’s church has been unable to move into its new building because of difficulties with local zoning