Elsewhere in this issue an article talks about a Wild Game dinner at which the speaker “invited unbelievers to receive Christ, the great ‘fisher of men,’ as their savior.” (See Wild Game Dinner is Effective Outreach.) What does that mean, exactly? The “fisher of men” reference comes from Jesus’ own invitation to several men–commercial fishermen–who […]
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Four Laws for Effective Communicators, a pamphlet designed to illustrate and reinforce the “SALT Principles” being taught by author Tom Julien, is now available from BMH Books. The four-color 12-page pamphlet is based on Colossians 1:28-29 and is designed both as a standalone publication and as the framework text for SALT seminars teaching the four
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More than 30 years ago, a special financial gift was made from Dayton, Ohio, First Grace Brethren Church to help a new church purchase property. That church is now Centerville Grace Brethren Church, pastored by Steve Makofka. At a recent Tri-States District conference, Makofka presented a gift of $5,000 to Tim Nixon to assist in
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Donald P. Shoemaker By Pastor Donald P. Shoemaker Grace Community Church of Seal Beach, CA A longer version of this essay was printed in the Long Beach CA Press-Telegram, on March 25, 2006.
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Dr. Jerry Young, standing right, led the recent AGBM “Certification Summit” held at the Grace Brethren Church in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Participants represented the licensure and ordination examining boards from districts around the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. (Jay Fretz photo) Twenty-six members of the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers, representatives of national organizations, and the
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There is still time to register and participate in either or both of this summer’s adult conferences in the FGBC. DRIVEN06, geared mainly for young adults, will be held June 22-26 on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The conference theme is “Alert and Oriented,” and it will focus on helping twenty-somethings answer
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Rick VanPuffelen, of the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church, has sent this prayer request for one of his relatives, a senior at Taylor University, who was critically injured in the Taylor U. van crash Wednesday evening (see earlier blog entry — Marion Chronicle Tribune photo). “You have all probably heard of the tragic accident
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More than 500 people from eight Grace Brethren churches in central Ohio joined together this evening for a “Night of Praise” held at the Delaware, OH, Grace Brethren Church beginning at 6:30 p.m. Delaware pastor Gary Underwood was emcee for the evening. A special point of praise was the story of the recent planting of
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Brethren National Youth Conference will be held on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg in 2007, according to an announcement today from CE National and the BNYC Executive Committee. The dates will be July 21-27, 2007. This will be the first time the conference has been in Mississippi. BNYC Committee members
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