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A “Billy Sunday Festival” was held in Winona Lake, Indiana, yesterday, featuring events to commemorate Winona Lake’s best-known resident from the past, baseball evangelist Billy Sunday. The Winona Lake Blue Laws (pictured, photo by Al Disbro) are a vintage base ball team, playing by 1860s rules, who played yesterday at Tabernacle Field, the site of […]

Since this blog went online in May of 2004, its small but loyal audience has been growing steadily. Many Grace Brethren pastors are finding a blog to be an effective communication tool–just follow the chain as we link to one another. The following article by Bambi Francisco on Marketwatch.com gives a little background and update

“Light in the Darkness: Studies in the Gospel of John” has now been received in the BMH Books warehouse from the printer and is available for shipping. This second volume in The Kent Collection, a republishing and updating of the commentaries on 15 New Testament books by the former president of Grace College and Seminary,

Todd Scoles, senior associate pastor at Northwest Chapel Grace Brethren Fellowship in Dublin, OH, and vice-chair of the Brethren Missionary Herald Co. board, has again been digging around in Grace Brethren history archives. Here are a few nuggets he recently shared with his colleagues in the North Central Ohio district: The first National Conference (then

Grace alumnus Bill Schaffer, who appeared as the “mystery musical guest” at the BMH-sponsored hymnsing at Equip05 national conference this week, will return to Taylor University in Fort Wayne, IN, on September 29 for a special appearance with Steve Brown’s “Great American Medicine Show.” Double-click on the poster to enlarge it to read details. We’ll

Dr. David Plaster (left, red shirt), academic vice president for Grace College and Seminary, conducted a very informative and helpful tour of the Brethren history murals in the Quinter-Miller auditorium on the grounds of Camp Alexander Mack near Milford, Indiana. Plaster, who wrote the BMH Books classic history of the Grace Brethren Fellowship, “Finding Our

Approximately 40 attendees of Equip05 participated in a “Brethren Heritage Tour” sponsored by Brethren Missionary Herald Co. last night. 

Youth ministry students from Grace College are heading for the Urban Hope Training Center in Philadelphia for a Youth Ministry Module, to be held August 4-10. Approximately 30 students will take the Cross-Cultural Youth Ministry class, co-taught by Dr. Randy Smith, Brian Gornik, Tommy Carrington, and Kyuboem Lee. The students will also be involved in

Many have asked for an update on the health of GBIM missionary Tom Barlow, who was hospitalized in the Dayton, Ohio, area with suspected heart irregularities during Brethren National Youth Conference last week. Barlow has been released from the hospital and is resuming a normal schedule. He and Mary Ann will present their missionary work

Eddie and Linda Mensinger (left) and Lois Wilson (right) were honored at an Open House at Grace Brethren International Missions Center this week upon their retirement from long and faithful service as missionaries to Africa. (Barb Wooler photo) The Mensingers served for 40 years, and Lois for 35. All three have been involved in leadership