Earlier this summer, Ed Lewis, executive director of CE National, presented the CE National Honor Award, Impacting the Rising Generation, to Jon Rauch. Jon served previously as the director of the Urban Hope Training Center in Philadelphia before joining the staff at Grace Community Church in Goshen, Ind. Jon has faithfully served in children’s ministry […]
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The staff at CE National, the sponsor of the summer discipleship program, Operation Barnabas, has announced recipients of the Faithfulness Award. Since participating on Operation Barnabas is not an end result but rather a step in the process, OB participants are encouraged to be involved in the OB Faithfulness Program. This discipleship program, completed in the five
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I was nine years old and attending Clear Lake Camp nestled in the Cascade Mountains of the Paci c Northwest. Sitting on a log positioned around a Friday evening campfire, I felt the heavy darkness of the nighttime mountains. It was decision-making time. I don’t remember who the pastor was, but he talked on the
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Word has been received of the death of Kay Bellinger, the last surviving child of Grace Brethren missionaries Dr. Orville and Charlotte (Hillegas) Jobson, who served in the Central African Republic (formerly French Equatorial Africa). Her obituary appears below. Kathryn J. “Kay” Bellinger was born Feb. 19, 1924, in French Equatorial Africa to missionaries Dr.
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The summer I was 15, a friend we were visiting took my family to the top of the incline overlooking Johnstown, Pennsylvania. As he was describing the disastrous flood that had once hit the city, I stood looking down at the homes below. “How many people in this town know Jesus?” I asked myself. “What
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The story of a Grace College graduate who is involved at Community Grace Brethren Church, Warsaw, Ind. (Roy Chapin, pastor), is featured on the website of Silveus Insurance Group, where he works. It’s a story that also happens to be written by MariJean Sanders, GraceConnect’s editorial coordinator. A portion of the story appears below. Click here
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An email from Dr. Augustin Hibale reports that everything went well at Saturday’s memorial service for Dr. Pierre Yougouda, who died July 27 in the Central African Republic. He was buried near Janet Varner at the James Gribble Theological Seminary. The memorial service took place at the Castors Church where the Prime Minister also came
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Dr. Mindi Miller Jentes, wife of Grace Brethren pastor Mike Jentes (he’s on staff at Los Altos Grace Brethren Church in Long Beach, Calif. and serves as coordinator of mobilization initiatives at Encompass World Partners), is featured on VoyageLA, an online news site that serves the Los Angeles area. She tells of her journey to
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And the ‘Best Church’ Award Goes To… In Revelation, Jesus gave a report to the church in Ephesus who had great morals, excellent social justice e orts, sound doctrine, and high ratings. I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those
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“Blame my dad.” That was my answer when a friend, somewhat annoyed, said, “Do you have to spiritualize everything?” To my dad, everything was an illustration of a spiritual reality. He took his cue from Jesus, turning anything in life into a teachable moment. Even when I was too young to fully understand it, he
