In just a few days, Grace Brethren will be gathering in LaCrosse, Wisconsin (youth) and Kingsport, Tennessee (adults) for our annual national conferences. As I read the current blog of columnist and friend Terry Mattingly, I wondered about the values and directions that we Grace Brethren express and experience. To stimulate our thinking, here is […]
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Sherwood Lingenfelter, president of the Grace Brethren International Missions (GBIM) board and Professor and Provost/Senior Vice President of Fuller Theological Seminary in California, is teaching the morning sessions at the GBIM “Family Reunion” this week. About 45 stateside missionaries, along with board members and some GBIM staff, are participating in the weeklong meetings. Lingenfelter’s wife,
Christians now have an important new hobby to pursue–analyzing the faith and values stances of the just-announced Democratic vice-presidential candidate. A very helpful and insightful article is on the current blog of ChristianityToday.com. Rather than reproduce it entirely, I’ve selected just a few paragraphs here and there that give the flavor. I highly recommend reading
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This week’s column by a good friend, Jim Dahlman, who teaches journalism at Milligan College in Tennessee and writes weekly for his local paper, raises a good issue. In it he quotes Vic Young, pastor of “The Biker Church” which will be hosting the FGBC later this month when Celebration Conference convenes in Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Chet Kammerer, former basketball standout and coach at Grace College who now works with the NBA as a scout and in player development, was present Saturday to tell anecdotes and give tribute to his former coach and colleague, Lloyd Woolman. Woolman, now retired and living in Everett, Washington, was honored by many of his former
Terry Eichorst (standing), now in the insurance business in Houston, was one of Lloyd Woolman’s former soccer players who returned to the Grace campus this weekend to honor the former coach, who is seated, at left. Woolman’s son, Gary (white shirt), is seated at right. Eichorst presented Woolman with several cans of Steed additive (on
Grace Professor Steve Grill, an expert in the history of Winona Lake and head of the Reneker Museum of Winona History, led walking tours Saturday morning during the Grace Alumni gathering. Here, on the steps of the Beyer Home overlooking the former site of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle, Grill explains the significance of the Beyer
Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life has won the prestigious Book of the Year award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). This year 471 books from 58 publishers were entered into the Gold Medallion Awards competition, which is judged by a panel that includes bookstore owners, managers, buyers, editors and book reviewers. The judges selected
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