Randi Walle

Members of the Brethren Encyclopedia Board, comprised of representatives from six Brethren groups tracing their common heritage to Alexander Mack in 1708, met Monday at Ashland Seminary. Among the agenda items discussed were the completion of volume 4 of the Brethren Encyclopedia, other monograph manuscripts being considered for publication, and plans for the 300th anniversary

Joan (Lesh) Hoke, Associate Director of Alumni Services at Grace College and Seminary, was recently elected and installed as the president of the local Kiwanis club in Warsaw, Indiana. In her work at Grace, Joan is responsible for providing administrative support to the Alumni Services Office of Grace College and Seminary. She plans, organizes, and

The board of directors of the Brethren Missionary Herald Company recently concluded its two-day meeting, held at Northwest Chapel in Dublin, Ohio, and hosted by Todd Scoles. The meeting began with a luncheon that included the pastor of the host church, Terry Hofecker, and his wife, Debbie. All board members were present, including newly-elected board

Iraqi lay pastor and church leader Maher Dakel, for whom Grace Brethren have been praying as “Pastor M” since his disappearance on September 12, is featured in the October 15 issue of WORLD magazine in an article by Mindy Belz (Mindy Belz photo of Dakel outside his Baghdad church building). Dakel was/is a key part

Only a few bricks and a crumbling foundation remain of the venerable “Health Center” on Wooster Road on the Grace College and Seminary campus in Winona Lake, Indiana. The facility, used for student housing as far back as the 1960s and more recently for student health services, was demolished this week to make way for

There are church planters in your church, and you might be one of them! Grace Brethren North American Missions is offering a free preliminary assessment of church-planting potential. This very brief assessment is part of a battery of assessments, interviews and training that we use to identify, train and coach North American church-planters. The 16

Galen Wiley sends along the following recommendations which were passed yesterday at the North Atlantic Fellowship Examining Board meeting at Frankford church in Philadelphia. Congratulations to all these men and churches! * We unanimously and heartily recommend Steve Galegor to the Penn Valley Church of Telford, Pennsylvania, for licensure to the pastoral ministry. We commend

A newly-revised and updated commentary on the Epistle of James by Dr. Homer A. Kent, Jr., has just been released by BMH Books of Winona Lake, Indiana. The 201-page trade paperback is the third in The Kent Collection, a project to update and re-issue the commentaries on 15 New Testament books written by the former

Zondervan Publishers has launched a free Internet-based Bible search tool at www.zondervanbiblesearch.com. The web site provides Internet users with eight Bible translations: TNIV, NIV, Amplified Bible, NASB Updated, NIRV, KJV, KJV Apocrypha, Darby Bible and the ASV. Other translations will be included as they become available.

Pastor Peter Smith of Hope Valley Community Church in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, has now returned from leading a multi-church relief team to the hurricane region. Here is his wrapup report: Thanks so much for your prayers—they made a huge difference. We could feel the prayers covering us and protecting us every day. It is hard