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Robert MacMillan, pastor of the Tracy, CA, Grace Brethren Church, led off the early-afternoon session of the Southwest Focus Retreat today with a talk on “Others and My Heart…Friends and Family.” The retreat is focusing on various aspects of the leader’s heart and tomorrow will discuss “How to Run and Not Lose Heart.”

In a just-for-fun singing time, attenders of the Southwest Focus Retreat this morning sang “His Banner Over Me Is Love” complete with hand motions.  

Doug Lee (seated, at piano), pastor of the Fountain Community Church in Fontana, CA, is worship leader for the Southwest Focus Retreat which began this afternoon at 4 p.m. The theme of the retreat is “the leader’s heart.” The retreat is being held at Rancho Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano at the southern tip of

Mitch Cariaga (left) of Grace Community Church in Rialto, CA, shares fellowship with Pastor Dan Allan (right) of the Ashland, OH Grace Brethren Church at the Southwest Focus Retreat. Allan is attending and help lead all four of the Focus Retreats this year as part of his duties as moderator of the Fellowship of Grace

Good coffee…warm fellowship…and a gentle warm breeze in the courtyard by the fountain…you won’t do THIS in Indiana in January! Today I visited Grace Brethren Church of Long Beach (Lou Huesmann, pastor) and had a wonderful time of fellowship with the congregation there. Tomorrow begins the Southwest Focus Retreat at San Juan Capistrano, followed by

The welcome tent in the courtyard of Long Beach Grace Brethren Church is well-stocked with literature and friendly folk to tell you about the ministry of the church. And a free mug or water bottle is offered to visitors, along with a free cup of flavored coffee–Starbucks could do no better! 

Grace Brethren Church of Long Beach, now at 36th and Linden, is the successor to L. S. Bauman’s “Fifth and Cherry” mother-church which burned down in the 1960s. 

Today’s Herald-Mail newspaper from Hagerstown, MD, carries a story by Wanda T. Williams entitled “Called to Dance” featuring a young dancer from the Valley Grace Brethren Church in Hagerstown (Dan Pritchett, pastor). The lead paragraphs are reproduced here–to read the entire article, click here. (Herald-Mail photo by Joe Crocetta) Like a minister who teaches from

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI – William Tyndale College of Farmington Hills, Michigan, founded in 1945, ceased operations effective December 31, 2004. The closing is due to a significant funding shortfall that will not support continued operations beyond the end of the Fall term. The magnitude of the funding shortfall was beyond the ability of Tyndale to

Trustees of Ashland University, a private Ohio college, have reversed their decision to hire only Christians and Jews as teachers and administrators. Ashland University trustees agreed Monday to drop the hiring policy that they put in place last October. Instead, faculty members and administrators will be required only to express support for the school’s commitment