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Pennsylvania Team Helps with Texas Hurricane Clean-Up

A team from New Beginnings Grace Brethren Church, Myerstown, Pa. (Keith Shearer, pastor), is in Texas this week helping with Hurricane Harvey clean-up. This is the 17th team that has gone from Grace Brethren churches this fall as part of the Hurricane Harvey Coalition, including several teams who helped in Florida following Hurricane Irma. John […]

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Simi Valley’s Grace Brethren High Football Team Heads to Postseason Play

The football team at Grace Brethren High School in Simi Valley, Calif., is headed to postseason play. It’s the first they’ve been eligible for in two years. Yesterday, the Venture County Star looked at their recent season and what it has meant for the team. A portion of the story appears below. Click here for

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Movement Church-Sponsored Trunk or Treat Attracts Thousands

More than 4,000 kids and their parents filed through “Trunk or Treat” Sunday night in Hilliard, Ohio. The community event was sponsored by Movement Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Hilliard (Mark Artrip, past0r). Josh Howard, pastor of communication and arts at the church, posted a live video of the event on Facebook (and shared

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To Celebrate or Not? Memory, Oppression, and Luther’s Reformation

Five hundred years ago this fall the German monk and rabble-rousing reformer, Martin Luther, published his famous 95 arguments or “theses” laid down against the church of Rome. Some would mark this as the beginning of the Reformation—an era of fragmentation that produced several new Protestant branches of Christianity and even a Catholic reformation. This

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Movement Church Offers Alternative to Trick or Treating

An alternative to trick or treating from door-to-door is being planned by Movement Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Hilliard, Ohio (Mark Artrip, pastor), according to the Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch. The “Trunk or Treat” event was included in a round-up story about less-conventional holiday events during the Halloween season. A portion of the story appears below.

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