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Timothy Young (pictured), associate professor of art at Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana, has been selected as the Badlands National Park (South Dakota) Artist in Residence for fall 2006. This is a four-week residency, beginning in early September to early October. Prof. Young will be interpreting the Badlands National Park environment in painting and drawing. […]

The following story appeared in this evening’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union newspaper: BY JENNIFER PERYAM, Times-Union Staff Writer More than 200 volunteers worked Wednesday to make 22 residences in Kosciusko County more like home. United Way teamed up with 145 Grace College students from the college’s department of character leadership and development, several committees and churches

Join Dr. Randy Smith, acclaimed Mideast scholar and pastor of the Sebring, Florida, Grace Brethren Church, on a study cruise/tour, “Understanding the Book of Acts and Applying the Teachings of Paul.” The trip begins with the sailing of Celebrity’s Galaxy from Rome on May 21, 2007, and it ends the morning of June 3, 2007.

Phil Dick, son of longtime Grace Brethren pastor Paul Dick and former athletic director and coach at Grace College, has been fighting lung cancer for some months. Many are following the updates his daughter, Michelle, is posting on www.caringbridge.com (type in phildick). Knowing that he would get results of the latest CT scans this week,

Several months go we posted a photo of the bowling alley facility that the Mount Gilead (Ohio) Grace Brethren Church (Pastor Charlie Barnhill) is remodeling for a worship and fellowship facility. Comes now this invitation from Pastor Barnhill: “This Sunday August 20th, Heartland GBC at Mt. Gilead will be meeting in their new building for

Celebrate06 is now mainly memories–you can re-live the experience by browsing through the blog entries from Saturday, July 29 through Thursday, August 3. But Equip07, set for July 29-August 3, 2007, in Winona Lake, Indiana, is rushing toward us. This exciting week of continuing education opportunities for all ages literally has something for everyone–from the

Twice a year Grace Brethren North American Missions and Grace Theological Seminary team up to offer a week-long class in church-planting. The current course is underway in Winona Lake, Indiana, with Dr. Terry Hofecker as the instructor. Hofecker is, among other things, senior pastor of the Northwest Chapel, a Grace Brethren church in Dublin, Ohio.

A standout football star from Grace Brethren High in Simi Valley is competing for the starting job as running back this year at the University of New Hampshire. Here is how one sportswriter describes him–the full article may be seen at http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060816/REPOSITORY/608160350/1007/SPORTS • Chad Kackert, fr., 5-8, 190. Kackert was at UNH last year but

Judy Daniels, of the communications office at Grace College and Seminary, has shared with us this lovely letter, which we’ve edited slightly, from Margaret “Pill” Sprunger about her parents (pictured). Members of the Bethel Brethren Church in Berne, Indiana (Joe Nass, pastor), they are celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary. Greetings may be sent through Margaret

Pastor Richard D. Sellers, 81, of Goshen, Indiana, died at Greencroft Healthcare late Sunday night, August 13, 2006. He was born January 16, 1925, in Warsaw, Indiana, to Clifford and Fawn (Miller) Sellers. On December 27, 1949, he married Virginia Rose Flora in Dayton, Ohio. She died February 19, 2000. Pastor Sellers coached and taught