After a brief prayer time at Grace Brethren International Missions headquarters in Winona Lake, Indiana, this morning, Tina Walker (right) and Tim and Ginger Hock left today for missionary service in the Central African Republic. Tina Walker is returning to Central African Republic as a term missionary. Tina has been part of a team that […]
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Pastors Ivanildo Trindade and Tom Peters of the Wooster, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church will be leading a short-term missions team to the Central African Republic the dates of August 31-September 17, 2006. Partnering with Integrated Community Development Internationals (ICDI), led by Jim Hocking, the team will minister to orphans, local churches, Bible schools, and will
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A delightful report from Pastor Scott Distler (Lititz, PA) on some post-BNYC activity: The weather and the water temperature of the Pacific Ocean at Huntington Beach in Southern California were absolutely perfect. It was spiritually uplifting for me to simply watch as our youth group started their day at the beach by getting in groups
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Kathy Gill, Special Events Coordinator for Grace College, invites all to attend a special Open House of the Westminster Hall guest rooms in Winona Lake, Indiana, on Wednesday, August 30, from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Westminster Hall (formerly the Westminster Hotel) has guest rooms available for rental use by Grace employees, alumni, parents or
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Tom Avey, of the FGBC Fellowship Coordinator’s office, has announced a change of location for the Central Focus Retreat, to be held October 9-11. Held for the last several years at Pokagon State Park in Indiana, the retreat this year will move to the Punderson Manor Resort (pictured), about 50 miles southeast of Cleveland, Ohio.
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The September/October, 2006, issue of FGBC World is now arriving in homes and churches and is already available online at www.fgbcworld.com. The lead story, about a Grace Brethren firefighter who was a first responder to the Pentagon crash, is especially powerful and poignant in light of the five-year anniversary of 9/11. Read and rejoice that
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Sixty years to the day after groundbreaking at the Pentagon, hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into its west side at 9:37 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, killing all aboard as well as 125 people within the building. The flight penetrated three of the five rings, but because the affected area was under renovation
Kathryn (“Katy”) Devereaux, a Grace College English major/journalism minor, began work today at the Brethren Missionary Herald Company as the fall editorial intern. Each semester Dr. Paulette Sauders of the college’s journalism department supplies BMH with a skilled writer/editor to serve in a paid internship. The students work about 20 hours a week and they
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Pastor Scott Distler, who was one of this year’s speakers at Brethren National Youth Conference, has painted an excellent word-picture on his blog of the nearly-indescribable worship experience at BNYC. Here are a few of his words, copied from his daily blog at http://www.lgbc.org/gracechurch/about_us/distlersk/blog.htm What I love best and miss most about BNYC is the
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