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 Guy Who Sang ‘Amazing Grace’
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
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Grace Brethren Chaplain Asks for Prayers
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’
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Alzheimer’s, my Father and Stem Cell Research
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
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Thomas Hamill “Laid it in God’s Hands”
Here’s a piece of the Thomas Hamill hostage story I hadn’t heard before. This is a short excerpt from a piece by Stefan Bos as distributed by the ASSIST News Service. Hamill made clear that at the end God is in control. “I’ve been a Christian all my life, but it’s hard to say exactly
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A Personal Remembrance of Ronald Reagan
Among the many tributes to President Reagan that have flowed through the BMH office since the weekend was this one by a personal friend and former colleague, Pat Nolan. Pat (who once rode as Tommy Trojan at USC) is a former Republican leader of the California state assembly, and is now the president of Justice
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Microenterprise Development Summit Held
Missionaries, nationals, and selected individuals from various Grace Brethren national organizations participated in the GBIM-sponsored Microenterprise Development Summit this past week. (Jay Hocking photo)
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Discussing Microenterprise Development As Mission
What a great gathering Grace Brethren International Missions (GBIM) has been having this week! Missionary businesspeople from all over the world have gathered for a Microenterprise Development Conference, which is being convened by Stuart Hake, the CFO of GBIM. I’ll reproduce here an article on the conference that has been prepared for the July, 2004
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