SANTEE, CALIFORNIA (ANS) — Dr. Henry Morris, the founder of the modern Christian creationist movement, has died in California at the age of 87. Kentucky-based Answers in Genesis says Morris’s son sent an e-mail notifying friends and associates that his father died Saturday night in the presence of his children. Henry Morris had been hospitalized […]
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In-depth study and discussion of Psalm 119 continues to be the main theme of the southeast Focus Retreat, now underway in Haines City, Florida. Participating this morning in one of the small-group discussions were Pastor Larry Edwards (left) of Ashland, Ohio, and Nelson Fernandez from the North Lauderdale Grace Brethren Church in Florida. Edwards, who
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April 1 is the early-bird deadline to get discounted registrations to this summer’s FGBC national conference near Palm Springs, California. Churches and individuals are encouraged to download promotional materials from the Celebrate06 website, including bulletin announcements in WORD format, bulletin inserts in color and black and white as pdf files, and copies of the Celebrate
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Doug Lee (left) of Fontana, California, and Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey discuss plans for the opening session of the Southeast Focus Retreat which began this afternoon in Haines City, Florida. Lee is leading music and worship for the retreat, which is attended by about 25 pastors and church leaders from Florida and other southeastern states.
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Pastor Leland Friesen of the Brooksville, Florida, Grace Brethren Church, opened the Focus Retreat’s ongoing study of Psalm 119 with introductory thoughts. The retreat, which began this afternoon, continues through Wednesday morning and is the fourth of five such retreats being held around the US. The final Focus Retreat is in Washington state in May.
Some 86 presidential scholarship contestants and their families were on the Grace College campus in Winona Lake, Indiana yesterday and today for a competition that concluded at noon today (Saturday.) The students interviewed with faculty members, attended a dinner hosted by Grace President Ron Manahan, and competed by writing essays and answering questions. At stake
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Today’s Waterloo (IA) Cedar Falls Courier newspaper features short-term mission efforts of several churches in the Waterloo area, including the Grace Brethren Church of Waterloo (Kelvin Cooke, pastor). Here is an excerpt which includes information about the Grace Brethren mission trips: Students aren’t the only ones itching to take their faith to all corners of
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Pastor Peter Smith, of Hope Valley Community Church in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, recently had back surgery. Word has come, via Northern Atlantic Fellowship coordinator Kork Moyer, that further surgery is necessary, to be done today. Here is part of the message Kork has forwarded from Peter’s wife, Julie: “Hi everyone. wanted you all to know
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