Randi Walle

Leaders of the Grace Brethren national organizations met this week in the conference room of the BMH/FGBC office for their twice-yearly overview of church health, Fellowship progress and priorities, and general sharing. Those participating included (clockwise, from left) Tim Boal of Grace Brethren North American Missions; Tom Avey, Fellowship Coordinator of the FGBC; Ed Lewis […]

“How to Start a Kingdom Conversation,” BMH Books’ new release on personal evangelism by Dr. Duke Heller of the Worthington, OH, Grace Brethren Church, recently received a nice review and “push” on one of the nation’s best-read Christian websites, www.crosswalk.com. Dr. Ray Pritchard, pastor of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, IL, and a regular

Grace Church at Willow Valley, the Grace Brethren church in Lancaster, PA, (John Smith, pastor) recently held its Annual Peace Officers Memorial Service, which recognizes police officers who have given their lives in the line of duty. Chet Barofski, NJ State Trooper and pastor of Grace Community Church in Hope NJ, was the speaker. Chet

Ed Lewis, executive director of CE National, will be the featured speaker at a joint US/Mexican youth conference this weekend. This annual event was featured in the July/August, 2004 issue of FGBC World, page 5 (see archived issues). Here is part of Ed’s prayer request for the event: Just wanted you to know that I

Joel Curry, director of institutional communication and publication for Grace College and Seminary, spotted this sign recently while touring the 13th century Church of St. Multose in Kinsale, Ireland. Be careful where you park! 

(from the Christian Booksellers Association e-newsletter): Larry Hair, director of retail stores at Christian Publications for nearly 32 years, passed away late last week from complications resulting from surgery. The memory of Larry’s life on earth was celebrated on May 21, at Hope Grace Brethren Church in Dillsburg, PA (George Traub, pastor). Please remember in

“Studies in Mark,” the newly-rewritten and expanded commentary on the Gospel of Mark by Dr. Homer Kent, Jr., is now available for purchase online at www.bmhbooks.com. The 248-page commentary is the first of a 15-volume matched set BMH is producing entitled The Kent Collection. Cost is $14.99. 

Dr. K Marie Stolba, an internationally-acclaimed musicologist, music historian, violinist, music educator and composer who taught music at Grace College in the 1970s, died Wednesday, May 18 in Fort Wayne, IN. A professor emerita of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, she had also served as a visiting professor and lecturer at universities and musicologists meetings

Eugene Habecker, who for the past 14 years has been the president of the American Bible Society in New York City, has been named president of Taylor University in Indiana. Habecker, a 1968 Taylor grad, replaces David Gyertson, who is returning to a faculty position at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, an institution he