Randi Walle

Ivanildo Trindade, associate pastor of outreach ministries at the Wooster (OH) Grace Brethren Church, informs us of the following: We have been busy preparing a team (“chain saw” unit) which is leaving later this week to the Gulf. This will be he first of several teams we are hoping to send. Also getting ready for […]

Relayed through Gay O’Deens, wife of pastor Dan O’Deens, here is an update as of Monday evening, Labor Day: Monday Sept 5thDan called tonight and Shreveport, Louisiana, Red Cross Chapter is at least feeling structurally organized. They have been in close contact with Baton Rouge where a national headquarters is set up. Shreveport is housing

Barb Wooler, GBIM missionary to the Central African Republic, is currently back in the CAR overseeing the ministry there to Pygmies and to orphans. A current news item on the GBIM website give this update to the tragic drowning of Pygmy evangelist Balemagna (pictured) last February. In February of this year Barb Wooler (GBIM, Central

The following report has just been received from Gay O’Deens, wife of Pastor Dan O’Deens of Parkesburg, PA. Dan called me and let me know he is in Shreveport Louisiana.It is about six hours north of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. He is at Shreveport northwest extension or chapter of the RED CROSS.They have him

(from ChristianPost.com) Christian Leaders Will Tell the Media ‘What is an Evangelical?’ The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), Christianity Today, and the New York Divinity School are hosting the seminar meant to educate the press in New York City Evangelical leaders are worried that their diverse group is misrepresented in the media. “There has been

Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey has been in touch with the families of pastors Dan O’Deens and Jim Brown, both of whom are being deployed to assist with Katrina disaster relief. Here is today’s update from his report: Pastor Dan O’Deens (Gateway Grace Community Church, Parkesburg, PA) has been deployed by the Red Cross to Shreveport,

A study on happiness and wealth by a Grace College alumnus is currently receiving wide national attention and distribution through the press. Glenn Firebaugh (pictured), who graduated from Grace College, Winona Lake, IN, in 1970 with a social studies major and psychology minor, is currently Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Demography at Pennsylvania

A former member of the Community Grace Brethren Church in Goldendale,Washington, has offered a three-bedroom home located about 12 miles north ofGoldendale, if it can be of use to victims of Hurricane Katrina. If you know of anyone who might be helped by this offer, please feel free tocontact the Goldendale GBC (goldgbc@gorge.net or 509-773-3388)

Pastor Jim Brown of Grace Community Church in Goshen, Indiana, sends along this news note and prayer request: Be in prayer for us … I am leading a team of nine from our church to head to the Gulf Coast to help out with cleanup and rebuilding and loving on people. We are going under

Pastor Dan O’Deens of the Gateway Grace Community Church in Parkesburg, PA, sends along the following quick note both for information and as a request for prayer. We’ll provide more details and followup as they become available. So you might pray: I am a National Responder/Chaplain DSHR with the RedCross. Have trained for the past