Randi Walle

Grace Brethren North American Missions, in cooperation with Grace Theological Seminary, is offering a class on church planting this August. The class will be a weeklong experience in Winona Lake, Indiana, from August 14-18, 2006. The focus will be on the basic understanding and skills necessary for starting a congregation in most North American cultural […]

Keith Shearer (pictured), moderator this year of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches and pastor of New Beginnings Grace Brethren Church in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, asks the following question: HOW WILL WE KNOW WE HAVE EXPERIENCED THE FIRE?? -at national conference this year? -in the churches of the FGBC? He says, “This is an excellent question

Drew Waggoner, pictured here with his wife, Nicole, and children, is the new Associate Pastor at Grace Fellowship, the Grace Brethren church in Pickerington, Ohio (Keith Minier, pastor). Most of Waggoner’s time will be focused on youth ministry, but he will also oversee the children’s ministry, fill the pulpit occasionally, oversee the care ministry, and

After nearly a week’s delay which included an airline going bankrupt, the unexpected stranding of a team in Mexico City, and much more, the Operation Barnabas International team has finally arrived in Brazil, almost a week later than intended. Here is a portion of their message this noon: “Welcome to Brazil, OBI! After nearly a

Executive Pastor Tom Abbitt (pictured) reports that Warsaw (IN) Community Grace Brethren Church celebrated its 50th anniversary this past week with a full week of service projects. Members of the church went into all facets of the local community with their sleeves rolled up, ready to do whatever they could. (Kevin Lilly photo) Activities began

Research results being released for the first time in the July/August edition of Facts & Trends magazine show most people who attend a Protestant church are using Christian media–magazines, websites, television, radio, movies, and music–but Christian media is only a fraction of the media churchgoers use. Protestant clergy, on the other hand, are much heavier

The Association of Grace Brethren Ministers (AGBM) has been circulating a document with significant changes to the bylaws which will be discussed and acted upon at the upcoming AGBM meetings during Celebrate06 in California. The proposed documents are available on www.agbm.org under “document archive.” The Mid-Atlantic District (MAD) ministerium, chaired by Doug Courter and Jay

Pastor Jim Franklin of the Flora, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church, has sent notice of the death of Harold “Pappy” Stayer, a member of the Flora church for more than 40 years and a significant figure in the founding and development of the Grace Brethren Boys ministry. J. Harold “Pappy” Stayer, 87, of Flora, died at

As they re-direct their ministry from the Waynesboro, PA, Grace Brethren Church, to the Vicksburg Grace Brethren Church, Roger and Lou Ann Myers send the following information. Please update your FGBC Handbook. As you might imagine the past three months have flown past and it hardly seems that it is time for us to move.

Dr. Kary Oberbrunner, a member of the pastoral staff of the Powell, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church and a key leader in the steering committee that has founded and directed the DRIVEN conferences for young adults the last two years, gave a powerful concluding message to this year’s participants this morning. Oberbrunner, using examples such as