Randi Walle

These “marker bricks” will be returning today to homes and offices with dozens of young adults who made commitments in this morning’s service to be part of a group that impacts its generation for Jesus Christ.

An authentic Hebrew first-century communion service was led this afternoon by Dr. Randy Smith, who lived and studied in Israel for many years. After experiencing various Hebrew customs of ritual cleansing, blessing, and more, participants ate the Love Feast in a manner typical of what Jesus and his disciples experienced in the Upper Room. A

Nathanael Smith, who is serving as a summer intern at the Worthington, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church, led the final segment of communion in the Holy Spirit chapel on the Kenyon College campus.

Dr. Randy Smith, pastor of the Sebring, Florida, Grace Brethren Church and expert on Israel, was the speaker for this morning’s 10 a.m. main session at DRIVEN06 conference for young adults. Afternoon recreation will include coed flag football, coed soccer, basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, volleyball, and racquetball. There is another round of workshops at 4:15 p.m.,

The sun finally shone on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where some 150 young Grace Brethren adults have been meeting for the DRIVEN06 conference. After two days of storms, continual rain, and overcast skies, the sun shone brightly as participants visited on the lawn enroute from workshops to the 10 a.m. main

Dr. Todd Scoles, of the pastoral staff of Northwest Chapel in Dublin, Ohio, gave a workshop this morning entitled “Beyong Baptism and Communion–Who Are the Grace Brethren?” Scoles’ recent doctoral dissertation was on the Brethren ordinances and he gave a historical and theological overview of the roots and distinctives of the Grace Brethren movement.

Jonathan Wiley, who recently joined the pastoral staff of the Grace Brethren Church of Worthington, Ohio, gave a DRIVEN06 workshop at the 8:45 a.m. hour today entitled “Tales From the Porch” on structuring church for young adults.

Barb Wooler, Grace Brethren missionary to the Central African Republic, gave one of seven workshops offered this morning to participants at the DRIVEN06 young adults conference in Ohio. Barb’s workshop was entitled “The Gift Everyone Hopes Someone Else Gets–Singleness.”

From today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union: BY TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer WINONA LAKE – Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh doesn’t get it. The MasterWorks Festival has made audition requirements more and more difficult and students still clamor to be accepted into the program. “We had to turn hundreds of students away,” he said about this year’s audition

Pastor Jeff Bogue from the Norton, OH, North Campus of Grace Church is the speaker for morning and evening main sessions on Friday at DRIVEN06, the Grace Brethren conference for young adults. Bogue gave a powerful challenge to the young people this morning not to be pulled into thinking “the world’s way” but rather to