by Laura Bloomingdale The fervor in his eyes belies his age as he speaks. “Faith is just a word until you practice it,” he says. “You just have to go.” Pastor Ed Jackson has learned many lessons over his remarkable 79 years. For him the most important one, though, is the most basic element of […]
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John Jones, pastor of the Marion, OH, Grace Brethren church, displays one of the “Worldless Walking Sticks” and the accompanying brochure which members of his church use for outreach and witness at fairs and farm shows. (Ron Boehm photo)“It’s so exciting,” says Gary Beery of the Marion, OH, Grace Brethren Church. “It’s a great way
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Lois Wilson Lois Wilson, longtime missionary to the Central African Republic, was one of the Grace Brethren International Missions personnel forced to evacuate the C.A.R. because of civil strife in November of 2002. Raised in a Christian home near Philadelphia, Lois first trained as a nurse, and then attended Grace College in Winona Lake, IN,
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With the Lord Althea S. Miller, 93, died December 24, two weeks after suffering a stroke. She is survived by her husband Robert E. A. Miller, who was a member of Grace Theological Seminary’s first graduating class, and eight children–Bill, David, Dorotheann, Sharon, Paul, Althea, Ardyth, and Mark, their spouses, 15 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
Eleanor Anderson, who was nine years old at the time of the sinking of the Zamzam, has written a book retelling her family. Less than a year before America became involved in World War II–on March 20, 1941–a refitted Egyptian freighter left Pier F in Jersey City for Africa. Among the 322 people aboard were
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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. Feb. 28-March 2 – South Focus Retreat, Haines City, FL (FGBC) March 4-6 – The BIG Retreat for youth workers, Atlanta, GA (CEN) March 5-13 – Grace College and Seminary Spring Break March 18 –
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by Ron Dorner “Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…” Ephesians 5:25 Who doesn’t like love letters? I know my wife does. In fact, she still gets out those letters I wrote to her more than 40 years ago and reads them! I want to talk
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Ten Years Ago – March, 1995 — Dave Mitchell, pastor of the Waipio GBC in Hawaii, traveled to China with four other men to hand deliver Christian material and Bibles to Chinese pastors. — The Lexington, OH, GBC, Dave Adkins, pastor, commissioned 60 people from their congregation to begin a new church in Mt. Vernon,
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BMH Books, the book publishing division of Brethren Missionary Herald Co., has been reorganized as a stand-alone independent publisher and is now producing both new products and republished older works. Publishing “Theology You Can Trust” since 1940, BMH Books traditionally focused on adult Sunday School curriculum and works by Grace Seminary faculty and Grace Brethren
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Along with the shock and horror we’ve all felt at seeing the tsunami destruction in southeast Asia, we’ve also been reminded of how quickly life may be changed-or taken from us. If you should suddenly be taken from this life, by a natural disaster or accident or health crisis, do you know for sure that
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