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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

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

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

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

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

Word has been received in Winona Lake that Rev. (Chaplain) Carlton Fuller died Monday at his home in Tennessee. He was a retired Air Force Grace Brethren Chaplain. According to the Grace Brethren Chaplain’s Endorsing Agent, Dr. John Schumacher, Fuller’s service with the Air Force Chaplaincy dates from February 1963, when he reported to Lackland

Kevin and Holly High and their family (pictured here when they visited BMH offices in Winona Lake last summer) have completed Spanish language study in Texas and have been cleared to relocate to Argentina to begin ministry there. Here is an excerpt from one of Kevin’s recent e-mails. Last Sunday I gave the message at

Your prayers are requested for veteran GBIM missionary to Africa Roy Snyder, shown here with his wife, Ruth. Roy will undergo quadruple bypass surgery tomorrow, Wednesday, at 6:30 am in Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Snyders served 35 years with GBIM in Central African Republic, and are now living at Grace Village and

Dr. George Bullard, a Southern Baptist church growth expert whom the FGBC has used as a resource on a number of occasions, is this week featuring the Raleigh, NC, Grace Brethren congregation on his weblog. Reproduced here by permission is his report–quotes about the church are taken from its website. A View from the Congregation:

Sandy Barrett, who works with Tom Avey in the Fellowship Coordinator’s office, reports having talked with Tom’s wife, Sandi, in California at about 3:30 p.m. Monday, Winona Lake, IN, time. The word is that Tom is now out of ICU after his quadruple bypass operation, has been “unhooked from all machines,” and has begun eating.