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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. […]

From the June 15, 2007, Simi Valley, Calif., Acorn More than 700 family members and friends gathered for Grace Brethren High School’s commencement exercise last Saturday evening. In the spacious church located on Sycamore Avenue, the audience stood as the private Christian school’s 47 graduates entered to the traditional “Pomp and Circumstance.” Principal John Hynes

A counselor prays with a camper at the Northeast Ohio District Camp as the sun sets over Lake Erie last week. By the time the campers left for home on Saturday morning, 49 first-time decisions to accept Christ had been made, according to Roland Maust, speaker for the week and pastor of the Grace Brethren

Here is an update on the recent colon cancer surgery on Cheryl Kaufman, former GBIM missionary and now staff member at the Worthington, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church. (See blogpost of May 8 and 18.) Rejoice again with me as I saw the oncologist June 1 and he confirmed that there is no further treatment for

For our first full day in Cameroon, we were hosted by Frank and Karin Puhl (pictured) and their family. After ministering for 15 years in Chad, the Puhls came to Cameroon to become assistant director of GBIM’s Africa ministry, helping to oversee all ministry in Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, and Nigeria. The Puhls graciously

At the OmniSport Grace Brethren Church in Yaounde (so named becuase it’s near a very prominent sports stadium), we met these leaders. At left is M’boum Antoine, who will assume the presidency of the Grace Brethren churches of Cameroon when the current president, Pastor Santos, leaves for Bible training in Bata, Central African Republic. Gabrielle

This is one of the largest and best-stocked Christian bookstores in the Cameroon capital city of Yaounde, according to local believers. It was one of several we visited during our first full day in Cameroon. On its shelves we found (in French) books by familiar authors such as Homer Kent, Jr., Jacques (“Jim”) Nesbitt, and

From this morning’s report about Operation Barnabas orientation at Lititz, Pa. To read more about the weekend’s activities, see the OB orientation blog here.Finally, the moment that solidifies each student as an Operation Barnabas team member. They get to put on their slightly wrinkled Sunday outfit and gather in mass to help lead worship on

Sunday’s South Bend Tribune told the story of Jon Page and his 12-year-old son, Tim (pictured at right at Comerica Park in Detroit), who marked Father’s Day and Tim’s passage from adolesence with a 2,000 mile road trip. While they both love sports, the trip was more than an opportunity to see four major league

From the Yakima Herald Republic is a report about the appointment of Peter Touhey, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church in Harrah, Wash. to the Harrah town council. Harrah town council members during a regular meeting earlier this week selected Peter Touhey, minister of the Harrah Grace Brethren Church, to fill the vacancy left by