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From GBNAM church-planter Nathan Bryant in Mississauga, Ontario: “Jennifer went in to have a new baby on Thursday and she had a baby boy just after 11:00 on Thursday night. Micah Alexander Bryant 7lbs 6oz. Baby and mom are doing great.”

Grace Brethren International Missions is very excited to announce the addition of the nationally-acclaimed “Nigerian Talking Drum Ensemble” directed by Dr. Francis Awe to the program for the upcoming Celebrate06 conference in California. This eight-member drum and dance ensemble will perform at the GBIM Poolside missionary reception on Saturday night, July 29, at the conference

Pastor Kenn Cosgrove, of the Limerick (Royersford) PA church, sends the following urgent prayer request: “Grace Church, Limerick, Pennsylvania, faces a deadline to vacate rented facilities on August 31. The building is slated for demolition soon after. PRAY for the Lord’s wisdom in relocation of this very active small church.”

Grace Brethren International Missions staff, board members, and stateside missionaries are concluding a week of “Family Reunion” in Winona Lake, Indiana.(Tom Avey cellphone photo) Each year the GBIM family gathers for updates, inspiration, and teaching. For ongoing information about Grace Brethren international missions, and to keep updated with prayer requests, log on to www.gbim.org.

Would you be willing to pray for events and people during the upcoming Brethren National Youth Conference, which will be held on the BIOLA campus in Los Angeles the dates of July 22-28? Click on to www.bnyc.net, click on “Pray for BNYC” and sign up for one or several of the available 124 time slots.

Here is an excerpt from an article in today’s Lancaster (PA) New Era about vandalism to the New Holland Grace Brethren Church (Tim Hodge, pastor): LANCASTER COUNTY, PA – Three Lititz area teenagers were charged Thursday with desecrating numerous headstones at the Moravian Church Cemetery in May, causing nearly $3,000 damage. The arrests were among

Back on June 30 we ran a posting from Pastor Kork Moyer at the Still Waters Grace Brethren Church in Pottstown, PA, about the local flooding and the great need for assistance. FGBC Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey has notified us that $5,000 from the FGBC’s Disaster Relief Fund has been sent to assist the Pottstown

Grace College and Seminary is sending a 26-foot Penske truck (loaded with Grace material and equipment) to BNYC and FGBC conference in California. There is an urgent need for someone to ride along with driver and Grace employee Shawn Kantenwein (grandson of Lee and Phyllis) on the trip. There was a second person scheduled to

YIB (Your Intrepid Blogger) is in Denver today attending meetings conducted by best-selling writer Jerry B. Jenkins (pictured), co-author of the multi-book Left Behind series. Jenkins now owns and operates the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writer’s Guild, a full-scale online correspondence course for writers which was founded by Grace Seminary alumnus Norm Rohrer. The heart