Randi Walle

Driven, the annual conference for young adults, kicks off this week at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. There is still time to register for the conference. If you can’t make it for the weekend, a day rate is available. The theme for the conference, which begins Thursday evening (June 21), is “Making Our Mark.” Speakers […]

The sun shone brightly and the acrid smells of open fires were everywhere as Frank Puhl picked us up in the mission pickup truck on Sunday morning, June 3, to go to a newly-formed Grace Brethren church. We stopped along a busy highway, and filed down this pathway and embankment to the area under the

The choir (left), which included both young people and some older ones, was already singing and ministering when we arrived, well before the service. They sang at several points in the 2 1/2 hour service, as well. The young man seated at the table at right seemed to have two jobs–one was to record attendance

Missionary Frank Puhl preached a strong message from Genesis 4 in which he emphasized that becoming a member of this church –or of any Grace Brethren church — did not make one a Christian. Rather, it was accepting the sacrifice Jesus paid with His blood that gives one entrance into eternal life. After the service,

What does everyone do after church on Sunday morning? They stand around and visit with their friends, greeting visitors, and generally socializing before leaving for the day’s other activities.

After our initial sightseeing, we got down to the real business that brought us to Cameroon–the training and teaching of writers. We had about 25 students in the seminar, representing a wide variety of backgrounds and experience. Some were pastors. Others were students. Some worked for organizations such as Wycliffe, SIL, or CABTAL. I taught

Jean (blue shirt, center), was the photographer and photography instructor on the trip. He gathered around him those interested in photographic instruction and walked them through a syllabus on aperture, shutter speed, lighting, principles of composition, and other information, particularly on the use of digital cameras. Then his group fanned out across the mission house

Didier (seated, left) retired with his group to the library of the guesthouse, where they discussed illustration, scenarios, the making of graphic books, and Didier’s experience at creating and publishing graphic projects.

First Grace Brethren Church, 2624 Stonequarry Rd, Dayton, is hosting their first “Bikers’ Blessing” on Sunday, July 1. The day begins at 10 a.m. with a continental breakfast followed by a special message just for the bikers by fellow rider Vic Young. A picnic at noon, with plenty of brats and burgers, will precede a

From this morning’s report about Operation Barnabas orientation at Lititz, Pa. To read more, see the OB orientation blog here. Tonight the students really learned how to minister as a guy/girl. The girls on each team split up with their girl leaders and talked about what it means to serve Jesus as a young woman.