Randi Walle

Intervarsity Christian Fellowship recently announced it would no longer host the Urbana conference at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Though the Urban-Champaign facilities had served the Intervarsity Fellowship well for 50 years, the growing number of participants each year has strained available resources and space needed to conduct the conference successfully. St. Louis, the […]

Prayer is requested for these nine potential church-planter family units who just today concluded a Church Planter’s Assessment process in Chambersburg, PA. (photos courtesy Ron Boehm) 

Ron Boehm, Midwest Regional Career Missionary with Grace Brethren North American Missions, sends the following report (at our request) of the Church Planter’s Assessment just completed today in Chambersburg, PA. Ron reports: We had eight that were assessed. We started the process Thursday afternoon and planned to finish by 1 p.m. Saturday, but when we

The following article, written and distributed by Baptist Press of the Southern Baptist Convention, accurately and succinctly portrays what many Grace Brethren leaders believe to be a proper and biblical perspective on the southeast Asia tsunami disasters. Along with the succeeding article on Grace Brethren tsunami response, you are encouraged to thoughtfully and prayerfully read

Upon hearing of the post-Christmas tsunami disaster in southeast Asia, Grace Brethren churches and people everywhere felt an immediate impulse to respond with God’s love. “Can we go over there and help?” “Where can I send donations?” “What is really needed?” “Do our Grace Brethren churches have any coordinated response effort to help?” These were

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Billy Graham and Rick Warren, both Southern Baptists, hold the top two spots on a list of leaders who pastors say have the greatest influence on churches, according to a survey by The Barna Group. Barna asked the pastors to name three individuals whom they believe have the greatest influence on churches and

The Greatness of the Kingdom, Dr. Alva J. McClain’s penetrating analysis of the Kingdom of God as taught in both the Old and New Testaments, has just been republished in a handsome hardback, dust jacket edition by BMH Books of Winona Lake, IN. The 556-page masterwork, which retails for $24.99, is available online through www.bmhbooks.com

Leslie L. Chamberlain, Jr., 77, father of Grace Brethren Investment Foundation Executive Director Larry Chamberlain, died last evening, January 17, in Grace Village Retirement Center, Winona Lake, IN, where he resided. A native of Johnstown, PA, Chamberlain moved to Indiana in 1997. He was a U.S. Army veteran, and had retired from Bethlehem Steel Company

Lisa Gill (left) and Jill Dimatteo (right) were two of the several dozen young people who distributed small bags of sidewalk salt door-to-door in the Warsaw/Winona Lake, Indiana, neighborhoods this evening as part of “Dinner and a Ministry” at Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church. Each bag of sidewalk salt included a note which had church

“Dinner and a Ministry” is a once-a-month Sunday evening event at the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church. Modeled after Steve Sjogren’s concept of “servant evangelism,” the program is organized and directed by WLGBC associate pastor Bruce Barlow. Service teams do community outreach, work on the church building, write notes of encouragement, call shut-ins and