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Left to right on the photo: Dan Balmer, chairman of Penn Valley elders, Larry Orme, executive pastor of Penn Valley, Al Kidder, pastor of Suburban GBC, and Tony Osimo, campus pastor at Bucks County Campus The elders of Penn Valley Church, a Grace Brethren church in Telford, Pa. have reached an agreement with Suburban Grace

FGBC Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey (right) led national conference planners from the various Grace Brethren national organizations on a tour today of the new $9.1 million Orthopaedic Capital Center (OCC) on the Grace College and Seminary campus in Winona Lake, Indiana. The OCC will be headquarters for this summer’s Equip07 national conference, which will be

One of the Brethren groups descended from the Alexander Mack (seal at right) baptism in Schwarzenau, Germany, in 1708, is the Old German Baptist Brethren group. It is one of six groups which, along with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, participates in the Brethren Encyclopedia Project and is cooperating in organizing a 300th year

The next three weeks will be a bit unusual for this blog, though you may not notice much difference. YIB (Your Intrepid Blogger) leaves the day after Memorial Day for nearly three weeks in sub-Sahara Africa, where we’ll be teaching and training young African journalists. If all goes well, we’ll spend a few days in

Paul Rhodes was installed as the pastor of the Grace Brethren Church of Chico, Calif. during a special service on May 20. Previously, Paul served as an associate pastor of the Neighborhood Church in Chico. It was fitting that the pastor of that church began the service with comments of releasing Paul to another church

Sprecher Lodge at the Grace Brethren Retreat Center (Camp Conquest) in Denver, Pa., will be dedicated at 10 a.m., Saturday, June 9. The service will be followed by an open house and a light lunch. The lodge is an expansion of an existing boys’ cabin. “We added two bathrooms, a large meeting room, and a

On a wooded site in Billy Graham’s home town, the Billy Graham Library will be dedicated in Charlotte, N.C., on May 31 and will open to the public June 5. The library and museum trace the life of America’s most famous evangelist. The ceremony is expected to feature former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill

Pat Phillips, BMH board member and an elder at the East Side Grace Brethren Church in Blacklick, Ohio (Chip Heim, pastor) sends along the following news note and photo: Sunday morning worship services at East Side GBC in Columbus, OH on May 20 featured the ordination service for Pastor Nate Harrison. Pastor Nate has been

By Norm MillerLYNCHBURG, Va., (BP)–Thousands thronged Lynchburg, Va., and the facilities of Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University for the May 22 memorial service of Jerry Falwell. The capacity crowd heard a statement from President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush as read by Tim Goeglein, special assistant to the president. The statement offered