The Grace Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio (Dan Allan, pastor) is helping with a ministry to area foster and adoptive families this weekend. Magician Mike Cantanzarito, a staff pastor at Ashland Grace, is among those assisting. Below is a portion of a report from the Ashland Times-Gazette. Click here to read the complete article. Foster families invited […]
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Access2017, the national conference for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, is in the history books. More than 500 people attended the three-day event, which was held at Grace Community Church, Fremont, Ohio (Kevin Pinkerton, pastor). The conference featured cohorts where individuals could explore, ask questions, and be inspired by others working in a similar
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The First Grace Brethren Church, Grafton, W.Va. (Mike Willis, pastor) is mentioned in an article this week in the Grafton Mountain-Stateman. The story details how several churches in the city are working together to provide food for the needy. A portion of the story appears below. Click here for the complete article. “Working together to
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Each year CE National honors faithful servants for the cause of Christ. Josh and Margaret Harig have been presented a CE National Faithfulness Award. Josh and Margaret have been involved in the church’s AWANA program as directors of the Cubbies group. Josh heads up the sound team and is involved in the building and maintenance
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CE National has presented its Youth Pastor of the Year award to Todd Shoemaker, the pastor of student ministries at Grace Church Bath Campus in Akron, Ohio (Jeff Bogue, senior pastor). During this past year under Todd’s leadership, there was an increase in small group attendance of more than 25 percent. Todd has assembled a
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I can honestly say, “I love our church.” I don’t mean the building. (It kinda’ smells because it’s old and it is a preschool during the week.) I’m also not referring to the service on Sundays. I love the worship, testimonies, and ordinances we partake in there, but the church is not a place or
The small town of Mabton, Wash., has the highest percentage of poverty in Yakima county – at 19 percent. When Amber Powell, stay-at-home mom and member of Mabton Grace Brethren Church (Adam Copenhaver, pastor), and her husband decided to get involved in ministry, they originally envisioned a small farm where they shared their produce with the community. But
I have heard it said that your real net worth is your network. If that is true than those of us in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC) are wealthy beyond measure – or at least we have the potential to be. One of the greatest privileges and benefits of a network like the
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Grace Brethren pastor (and GraceConnect board member) Daron Butler, who is Next Steps pastor at Grace Church, Wooster, Ohio (Nick Cleveland, senior pastor), has been participating in the United in Christ conference in Bemidji, Minn., this past week. It is a conference designed to bring people together who are involved in Native First Nation ministries, or
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R Dallas Greene, pastor of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation Frederick, Md., is part of a group of pastors in his community who are seeking to bridge the racial divide in their community. A story in the Saturday’s Frederick News-Post reported on their efforts. A portion of the story appears below. Click here
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