YIB (Your Intrepid Blogger) will be offline much of this week. Today begins the first of five Focus Retreats around the country for Grace Brethren pastors and church leaders–this one is at Pokagon State Park ‘way up in the northeast corner of Indiana. Likely won’t have internet access from there, so I’ll have some photos
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Ohio State University Revises Policy, Allows Religious Clubs to Remain ‘Religious’ by Jim Brown October 8, 2004 (AgapePress) – One of the largest public universities in the country has reversed course and will now allow the Christian Legal Society and other evangelical student groups to limit their membership to Christians. In a dramatic about-face, Ohio
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Billy Graham’s message still clear despite his age & diminished voice By Bob Baysinger KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)–There wasn’t much power in Billy Graham’s voice at the opening night of the Heart of America Billy Graham Crusade in Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium, but that didn’t stop the 85-year-old Southern Baptist evangelist from preaching a powerful
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In an earlier entry (October 3) we told you about some of the Grace Brethren leaders who were attending the Lausanne Evangelism conference in Thailand. This release from Baptist Press on that meeting should stimulate some thinking about the four billion oral learners who will likely not hear of Christ by the traditional means. Reaching
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The immediate neighborhood of the Sebring, Florida, Grace Brethren Church was left in shambles after Hurricane Jeanne. Pastor Randy Smith says, “Without a doubt this has been a challenge, but one our folks at Sebring have risen to! We have had greater opportunity to minister than at any time in my life.”
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Dr. Randy Smith, pastor of the Sebring, Florida, Grace Brethren Church, sends these photos of the damage Hurricane Jeanne did to the church’s youth center. “She left us without a youth center roof,” he writes, “and with a thoroughly soaked building at the Bible Institute.” He indicates that crews have been working tirelessly to aid
A live webcam at the Johnson Ridge observatory, about five miles from the crater of Mount St. Helens, is available online. A new image is automatically posted about every five minutes. To see the webcam, click here: https://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
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Grace Brethren Church of Worthington (Columbus), Ohio, (Jim Custer, pastor) celebrated its 40th anniversary with a series of events last weekend. Here is an article from Suburban Newspapers describing the event: Grace Brethren Celebrates 40 Years By SCOTT TAKAC Grace Brethren Church of Worthington marked four decades in the community last weekend with an anniversary
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