Randi Walle

One of the advantages of living in Winona Lake, Indiana, is seeing so many Grace Brethren-connected people flow through this town, which houses most of the Grace Brethren national organizations. This week, for example, we saw Linda Mensinger in church. She’s on her way to the Northwest to care for her parents, leaving Eddie—for the […]

The current issue of Time Magazine is featuring an article on the popularity and growth of blogs. Here are just a couple paragraphs to whet your appetite: Meet Joe Blog Why are more and more people getting their news from amateur websites called blogs? Because they’re fast, funny and totally biased By LEV GROSSMAN; ANITA

What a great weekend this was in Winona Lake, Indiana! It was the annual “Billy Sunday Festival” when the town celebrates one of its most famous former residents–evangelist Billy Sunday (1862-1935). It is estimated that the former professional baseball player preached to over 100 million people and had over one million converts to Christ in

“Ma Is In the House” Mrs. Helen “Ma” Sunday, as portrayed by Kathy Allison of the Grace Brethren North American Mission staff, welcomed visitors to the restored Billy Sunday home during Saturday’s Billy Sunday Festival. Entitled Mount Hood, the Sunday home (which perches atop Evangel Hill above the Rodeheaver Auditorium in Winona Lake, Indiana) was

Care for a carriage ride? Available for hire, the elegant horse-drawn carriage took tourists out around MacDonald Island and back down Park Avenue (pictured here, in front of Rodeheaver Auditorium) as part of Saturday’s Billy Sunday Festival. 

The “Blue Laws” team from Winona Lake beat a Warsaw team 16-7 in this game played Saturday on Tabernacle Field in Winona Lake. Uniforms, rules and procedures are quaint replicas of the games played in the 1860s. Huzzah! 

Strolling musicians playing familiar American melodies on traditional folk instruments were part of Saturday’s Billy Sunday Festival in Winona Lake. These musicians strolled among the spectators for the 1860s-style baseball game on Tabernacle Field, the former site of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle. 

I’ve heard nobody in the commentary of the Reagan funeral say much about Ronan Tynan, the tenor who sang at the National Cathedral service. Most news reports only say that President Reagan “wanted an operatic singer” to perform at his funeral. In fact, Tynan has an amazing story. Here it is: Tenor Ronan Tynan hails

Kathy Allison of Grace Brethren North American Missions forwards this letter from Grace Brethren Chaplain James Schaefer and asks that Grace Brethren remember to pray for James and other chaplains who serve so gallantly and fearlessly in dangerous situations. Here, as relayed by FGBC Chaplains Endorsing Agent John Schumacher, is a slightly-edited version of James’

Only those of us who have had a close-up encounter with Alzheimer’s Disease can understand the poignancy of what Nancy Reagan has been going through for a decade. My father–a brilliant, godly and wise leader in his community and in the Kittanning, PA Grace Brethren Church–recently died at age 94 after a 10-year decline with