By Mike Jentes A three-fold Grace Brethren communion service which included footwashing, the Love Feast, and the bread and the cup climaxed the young adult DRIVEN conference which was held on the historic Kenyon College campus in central Ohio in June of 2005. More than one hundred Grace Brethren gathered at Kenyon College in Gambier, […]
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Events of general interest among Grace Brethren Churches. Details and registration information are available from sponsoring organizations or through www.fgbc.org. Sept. 16-17 – Sibs Weekend (visit days for brothers/sisters), Grace College Sept. 18 – Mid-Atlantic District CE Celebration, Hagerstown, MD (CEN) Sept. 19 – Northern Atlantic District CE Celebration, Smoketown, PA (CEN) Oct. 7-9 –
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Todd Proctor and his band led the enthusiastic praise and worship for many of the main sessions of BNYC, held in the Jeremiah Auditorium on the campus of Cedarville University in Ohio. (Jenna Hollinger photo) Steve Galegor, Jr. (burgundy shirt) manned his display Tuesday afternoon at the City Fair to explain his ministry to Albanians
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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
Ten Years Ago – September, 1995 Among the new churches received into the Fellowship at the National Conference in San Diego were ValleyLife GBC, Peoria, Arizona (Ed Waken, pastor), Brethren Bible Church, Hemet, California (William Kitchell), and Iglesia Evangelica de los Hermanos, Yakima, Washington (Abner Solano). Twenty-five Years Ago – September, 1980 The Pleasant Grove
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Ed Lewis Ed Lewis, Howard Mayes, and Robert Wagner were honored by the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers (AGBM) at the recent Equip05 national conference for Excellence in Ministry (Lewis), Lifetime Achievement (Mayes), and Pastor of the Year (Wagner). Pastor Bud Olszewski, a board member for CE National, presented the tribute for Lewis, who was
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Larry DeArmey, GBIM missionary to Spain (second from left in photo), sends along this photo and brief followup to the cover story on Pilgrim House in the July/August 2005 issue of FGBC World. We had another great time on the St. James Way serving pilgrims as they walked by our house. It was a challenge
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Grace Brethren North American Missions announced today the establishment of a fund for victims of Hurricane Katrina which hit the Gulf Coast on Monday. The fund will collect monies from Grace Brethren Churches and people and will channel those monies through our partner in the Mission America Coalition, The Christian Emergency Network (CEN). The Network
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Randy Maxson, a 1974 graduate of Grace College who has been serving as associate professor of English at Ivy Tech Community College in Warsaw, Indiana, has been named the interim executive dean of the school. Maxson, whose previous experience includes service on the pastoral staffs of Grace Brethren churches in Indiana and Pennsylvania, has been
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The following report from the General Board of the Church of the Brethren explains in more detail the impact and legacy of the late Brethren historian Donald F. Durnbaugh (see blog entry for 8/27): Donald F. Durnbaugh is remembered as `dean of Brethren historians.’ Church of the Brethren historian, educator, and church leader Donald F.
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