WINONA LAKE, IN — Grace College men’s basketball coach Jim Kessler (pictured) will be presented with the coveted Guardian of the Game Award this Sunday night, April 2, during the Cingular/NABC Guardians of the Game Award Show, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis, Indiana. Instituted in 2002, the Guardian Awards are
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Twenty-seven leaders among Grace Brethren clergy are meeting yesterday, today, and tomorrow at the Grace Brethren Church of Lititz, Pennsylvania, for a “Certification Summit” to discuss issues relating to the licensure and ordination procedures for the FGBC. The group includes district examining board personnel and AGBM officers representing churches from Soldotna, Alaska, to Fort Myers,
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Dr. Tiberius Rata (pictured), Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies at Grace Theological Seminary, will be the keynote speaker at the next Religious Studies Symposium, to be held on Thursday, April 6 at 7 p.m. in Ashman Chapel in McClain Hall on the seminary campus in Winona Lake, Indiana Dr. Rata has chosen “Dispensationalism under
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Scott Distler (pictured), pastor of the Lititz, PA, Grace Brethren Church, is the featured speaker for Grace College’s Youth Emphasis Week this week on the Winona Lake, Indiana, campus. He will be speaking at five different events, including several college chapels. This year’s theme is “Building a Strong Foundation in a Shifting World.” Distler’s church
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The Midwestern meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society met in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this past Friday and Saturday. Attending from Grace College and Seminary were professors Herb Bateman, Skip Forbes, and Brent Sandy, and students Dawn Modlin, Jonathan Potter, and Jeremy Wike. The theme of the conference was “Going Beyond the Bible Biblically: The Hermeneutical
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Members of the Brethren Encyclopedia Board met at Ashland (OH) Seminary today for a spring meeting which included updates on publishing volume 4 of the encyclopedia, plans to publish additional Brethren-history monographs, and coordination of plans to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Brethren movement with tours and activities in Schwarzenau, Germany, in August of
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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-Cities District conference, Makofka (right) presented a gift of $5,000 to Tim Nixon (left) to
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Claudia McCray is a precious little two-year-old with a brain tumor. She’s also the granddaughter of Grace College coach Jim Kessler. People at her church, the Warsaw (IN) Community Grace Brethren Church, held a day of prayer and fasting for her this past Monday, the day before she was to have a crucial MRI. Here
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Dr. Terry Hofecker, senior pastor of Northwest Chapel Grace Brethren Fellowship in Dublin, Ohio, and a Grace Theological Seminary faculty member, gives a brief update on the MI 700 class held in Columbus a couple of weeks ago to stimulate and facilitate church-planting in the Fellowship. The course had participants from Alaska, Los Angeles, Miami,
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Marge Foote, 84, known in the Fellowship as a prayer warrior and as the mother of Pastor Robert Foote of the Huber Heights Grace community Church in Ohio, passed away in her sleep during the early morning hours Thursday, March 23, 2006, at her home in Winona Lake, IN. Born in Shreveport, Lousiana, she married
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