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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Approximately thirty 4:12 Commission participants and their sponsors/instructors visited the Brethren Missionary Herald offices today at noon for a briefing on BMH’s ministry, followed by pizza in the conference room. Accompanied by Ed Lewis and Lois Maxson of CE National and Ryan and Lori Rodeman from the Akron campus, the students are beginning their second
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Marlin and Sue Weaver, longtime missionaries to the Chateau in France, experienced a family tragedy over the weekend as reported here in an e-mail to his congregation by Pastor Scott Distler of the Lititz, PA, Grace Brethren Church. Your prayers for the Weavers will be appreciated: I received a quick note from Marlin Weaver, our
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Noted Brethren historian and Brethren Encyclopedia Board member Donald F. Durnbaugh (pictured here, back row, second from left in the Brethren Encyclopia Board) passed away this morning in a Newark, NJ, hospital. He was not feeling well so he and his wife, Hedda, hurriedly returned home from Europe. Donald Durnbaugh was a noted historian of
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