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O’Deens, Brown Updates on Disaster Ministry

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, […]

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Firebaugh Study on Happiness, Wealth Receiving Wide National Attention

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

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Washington Home Available to Hurricane Victims

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)

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O’Deens Part of Katrina Response Team

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

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Amy Foundation’s Jim Russell Passes Away

Note from Terry White: A courageous crusader who has had enormous impact in the area of encouraging journalists to impact the world for Christ has passed away. When encouraging churches to sponsor Christian writers groups I always suggest they refer to the Church Writers Group material on Jim’s website at www.amyfound.org. This article by Michael

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Church Planter Workshop Held in Pennsylvania

GBNAM Northeast Career Missionary Jim Snavely sends along this photo and brief report on a recent church planter workshop held in his region: The Northeast has a wonderful team of dear people planting churches, or for some, considering church planting. GBNAM Northeast hosted a three day church-planter workshop, August 21-23, at Carlisle, PA. It was

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Grace Brethren are Oldest Twins Alice Garber Peer and Angie Garber (right) Twins Days in Twinsburg, OH, is the world’s largest annual gathering of twins. Every August since 1976, twins from around the world descend on this small town about 30 miles south of Cleveland for a weekend of socializing, celebration, and fun. Twins Days

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