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The following prayer request is excerpted from an e-mail that came from the Worthington, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church (Jim Custer, pastor). Please be in prayer for the Pyles family, whose 17-year-old son, Jered, drowned at Alum Creek yesterday. He was a student at Worthington Christian School and was well-loved and admired by the students and […]

Three members of an Africa-bound GO team from Women of Grace USA left Winona Lake, Indiana, this afternoon to fly to the Central African Republic. At left is Angela House from the First Grace Brethren Church in Dayton, Ohio (Mark Saunders, pastor). GBIM missionary Barb Wooler is in the center and at right is GBIM

Moses and the Gods of Egypt, one of the most useful, academically sound, evangelical studies of the book of Exodus, by John Davis, has just been re-issued by BMH Books with an updated cover design. The commentary guides the reader through 340 pages of understandable, in-depth examinations of Exodus. It illuminates the biblical text in

Rev. Pharaoh is at it again–stirring up the (baptismal) waters with a post that starts out this way: This month’s Christianity Today has an interesting story, found here that again declares to the entire Christian world (at least the part of it that reads Christianity Today) what the Brethren have known all along. And that

Here’s a followup note from Lititz pastor Scott Distler about Wednesday evening’s fire incident in the Lititz church building: We definitely praise the Lord for His protection. Today I received this e-mail from a man who attends our church and is part of the fire department: “Pastor Scott, in my 26+ years in the fire

Randy R. Maxson, a 1974 graduate of Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana, has been named Executive Dean of Ivy Tech Community College, Warsaw, Indiana, campus. He had been serving as Interim Executive Dean since September, 2005. Maxson has been associate professor of English at Ivy Tech. His previous experience includes service on the pastoral staffs

Pastor Scott Distler of the Grace Brethren Church of Lititz, PA, gave the following fire-incident report today in his regular e-mail update to his congregation: We did have some excitement of a different kind at the church Wednesday evening. About 10 minutes prior to the Wednesday evening ministries beginning, the alarms went off inside the

This blog requested prayer for Laura VanRyn, cousin of a member at Winona Lake, (IN) Grace Brethren Church, believed to be in a coma after the tragic accident. The following notice from the website of Taylor University gives details: “All of us know the pain we have experienced over the past five weeks since that

David Guiles, executive director of Grace Brethren International Missions in Winona Lake, Indiana, was the main speaker for today’s GBIM-sponsored “Retiree & Volunteer Luncheon” held at the 2517 Restaurant in Warsaw, Indiana, at noon. Guiles, who has just returned from several weeks in Africa, gave updates from various fields where Grace Brethren missionaries are working.

Dr. and Mrs. Bill Walker (center) and Mrs. Harold Mason (second from left) were honored at today’s luncheon for their many years of bringing medical missionary expertise to the Central African Republic. Dr. Walker and the late Dr. Mason for many years did a two-year alternating medical practice with one managing the practice while the