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Bellflower’s Tom Hocking Lights the Prayer Fire

Pastor Tom Hocking of the Bellflower, California, Grace Brethren Church was the main-session speaker this morning at the Grace Brethren annual conference. His assigned topic was “Fire in the Soul: A Beginner’s Guide to Pyrotechnic Worship.” Using a rapier wit and insightful illustrations, Hocking skillfully used The Lord’s Prayer from Scripture to teach truths about […]

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Introduced by his pastor, Keith Shearer from the New Beginnings Grace Brethren Church in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, Kevin Kreider gave a testimony in the 10:30 a.m. session today about the move he and his wife, Lorna, have made to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to church-plant among those who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

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GBIM Sponsors Missionary Reception, Food-Fest

The main program option for tonight at Celebrate06, the annual conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, was an international food-fest and missionary reception organized and sponsored by Grace Brethren International Missions. A variety of ethnic food lines provided some exotic choices for the hundreds who came to eat, to enjoy ethnic music, and

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Tonight’s GBIM reception provided excellent opportunities for one-on-one meetings with missionaries to make new friendships, renew previous ones, and to get updates from the field. Here GBIM missionary and Europe Field Director Dr. Paul Klawitter (left) chats with Long Beach pastor Dale Workman and other friends.

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Old college buddies hook up again. Joe Beaver (left), son of retired GBIM missionaries Wayne and Dorothy Beaver, and now living in Simi Valley, California, chatted at the reception with his college friend Greg Burgess (right), now living and working in France with Editions Cle, the French publishing arm of the Fellowship.

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