Pastor Greg Stoever of the River City Grace Community Church in Sacramento, CA, opened the Focus Retreat’s first study section with introductory comments on the first 48 verses of Psalm 119. As with all this year’s Focus Retreats, the comments and insights produced by the small-group discussions of the psalm will be compiled into a […]
Avey Released to Fly Home
Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey (pictured), who underwent quadruple bypass surgery a week ago Sunday morning in Rancho Mirage, CA, is still in southern California but sends the following on Monday afternoon: “Good news! We are released to travel. We fly to Indy tomorrow and drive to Winona on Wednesday. “I’ll not be back to work
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Pastor Robert Kliewer Obituary
Services for longtime Grace Brethren pastor Bob Kliewer will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. at Whittier Community Grace Brethren Church. Robert Carl Kliewer was born April 26, 1930, in Mountain Lake, MN. The family moved to West Salem OR, around 1935 and then moved to Los Angeles in 1944. He attended Culter Academy, where
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Simi Today; San Juan Tomorrow
YIB (Your Intrepid Blogger) spent this morning with the Simi Valley, California, Grace Brethren Church (John McIntosh, pastor), where we were able to share about the ministry of BMH in both morning services and also teach Pastor Jerry Kelley’s adult Sunday School class. This evening is the football banquet celebrating the remarkably successful season of
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During the offering time at the Simi Valley church, parishioners are encouraged to bring a red rose to the front for every person who heard the message of the Gospel this week, and a white rose for each one who accepted Christ as Savior. This photo, taken after the first (9 a.m.) service this morning,
FGBC Pastor Finds Family and Church, Gains Asylum
The following feature story on a Grace Brethren pastor appeared in today’s Sunnyside (WA) Daily Sun News (photo by John Fannin) by John Fannin Fear of an oppressive government and a need for family led Juan Marenco (pictured) to leave his native Nicaragua and eventually settle in Mabton, Washington, where he is pastor of Grace
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Church Library is Effective Community Outreach
This article, which appeared in today’s Modesto (CA) Bee newspaper, demonstrates how a church can effectively use its library to attract non-church users, and minister to the larger community. By AMY WHITEBEE STAFF WRITER It’s Wednesday morning and the Khachadourian family is on its usual routine, stopping to browse at the Big Valley Grace Community
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Grace Lends Documents For Exhibit
According to today’s e-mail update from the Grace College & Seminary publications office (connect@grace.edu) several important documents are on loan from Grace’s Biblical and Ancient Manuscript Center in the Morgan Library for exhibit at The Discovery Place in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Discovery Place is sponsoring a major exhibit February 17-May 29, entitled “The Dead
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Avey Anticipating Hospital Release
UPDATE – 1:45 P.M. THURSDAY, WINONA TIME Tom Avey is now out of the hospital. But early estimates on his return to Winona were a little optimistic. He sees his doctor for a checkup on Monday, and hopes perhaps to be able to fly by about the middle of next week. ————————– The good word
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Looking for the Yearbook Owner
Looking for the Yearbook Owner Today we received an e-mail that contained this message: “Someone left a 1962 Philadelphia Bible College yearbook at a restaurant in Franconia, PA. The reason I am notifying you is that there was a clipping in it from your blog dated 12/16/2005 ‘terry-taylor-prepares-to-go-home.’” If it was your yearbook and you’d
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