Word has been received of the May 31 death of Julia Colburn, widow of the late Grace Brethren pastor, Ralph Colburn. Her obituary appears below. Julia was born in Toronto, Canada, to Fred and Dorothy Rowland in 1920 and immigrated to Los Angeles in 1923. She graduated from John C. Fremont High School in 1939 […]
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An article in Tuesday’s Wooster, Ohio, Daily Record, tells about Warren Dick’s dream of beginning a university in Ethiopia. (Warren is a member of Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Wooster, Nick Cleveland, senior pastor, where he currently serves as moderator of their board.) A portion of the story appears below. Click here for
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The Grace Brethren Church in Winchester, Va. (Kevin Mincey, pastor), has received CE National’s Church of the Year award based on seeing these very positive signs taking place in just the last couple of years of ministry. Increased growth from averaging 15 to averaging 140 people on Sundays. Strong new ministries to children and youth
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Two Grace Brethren pastors were featured yesterday in an article about their involvement in the music scene in Hagerstown, Md. The Herald-Mail told how Larry Weber, who formerly retired in 2014 as pastor of the Grace Brethren Church in Waynesboro, Pa., and Dan Thornton, current pastor at Maranatha Brethren Church in Hagerstown, are helping lead
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GBCanada USA has re-branded as Assist and broadened its mandate to include church expansion across the USA, according to an email announcement sent Monday afternoon. GBCanada USA has been the church-planting mission agency working in Canada for the last 20 years developing churches for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC). This change comes as
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Bridget Fryman has joined the staff of GraceConnect and BMH Books. She is assisting with the day-to-day business operations of the organization, along with database management and event planning. Bridget is a graduate of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., with a B.A. degree in journalism and history. From 2004 to 2007, she was education reporter and weekend
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Word has been received of the July 9 death of Wayne Flory, former Grace Brethren pastor and military chaplain. He retired from Biola University where he taught in the Bible department. He had been in and out of the hospital since April following a heart procedure. A public memorial service is planned. Information will be
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Operation Barnabas teams continue to minister in the East and the Midwest. Team Atlantic has been participating in Streetwise at Urban Hope in Philadelphia, Pa., while presenting programs in parks and helping in other ways. They finish this weekend at the Grace Brethren Church, Palmyra, Pa. (Paul Mutchler, interim pastor). Team Hoosier has been in Central Ohio
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Here are some recent ministry updates from around the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. Jim Cabush has accepted the position of family pastor at Valley Grace Brethren Church, Hagerstown, Md. (Dan Pritchett, senior pastor). At Grace Church, Marion, Ohio, John Jones has concluded 25 years of ministry. He and his wife, Shari, have transitioned to a support role at the Chateau
Grace Village, Winona Lake, Ind., is the recipient of a gift from the estate of Lila Sheely, a former nurse and missionary who died March 5, 2017 in Winona Lake. The online news site, InkFreeNews, carried the story. Part of it appears below. Click here for the complete article. LILA MAE SHEELY LEAVES A LEGACY Grace
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