Sometimes what we want most during the winter season is to sip a hot beverage in the company of friends. For the ladies of Peninsula Grace Brethren Church in Soldotna, Alaska (Justin Franchino, lead pastor), that warmth often comes from their annual Christmas Tea. In the past, the church hosted occasional brunches during the winter months, where eight […]
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A story in today’s Troy, Ohio, Daily News, announced a new Grace Brethren church which will launch on Sunday. Gospel Community Church, a daughter congregation of Greenville, Ohio, Grace Church (Danny Wright, teaching pastor), will hold its first public worship service on the first day of 2017 in a historic downtown church building. Church Planter
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The Lodge, a retreat center in Syracuse, Ind., owned by Grace Community Church, Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, senior pastor), was the site of a community memorial service on Thursday night as people gathered to remember five individuals from the area who had died suddenly over the last few weeks. Below is a report on the
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This week’s Sun News in Seal Beach, Calif., carries a front page story about a groundbreaking event next week at Grace Community Church, Seal Beach (Steve Williams, senior pastor). The church is beginning what they call Wave 3, the third and final project in a series of projects to renew and maximize their land-locked facility.
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Todd and Deb McQueen moved to Ocala, Fla., two and one-half years ago to help re-establish Grace Church. With Todd serving as senior pastor, they looked for ways to engage with people in the community and quickly found an opportunity on the local mountain bike trails. (Yes, there is such a thing in relatively flat
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Jim Hocking, founder of Water for Good and former missionary to the Central African Republic, is featured in this week’s the paper, a weekly shopper that is delivered to homes in Kosciusko County, Indiana. (Water for Good is a cooperating ministry in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. The Hockings are also members of the Winona
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Word has been received of the death of Kenneth E. McNertney, father of Cindy Clark, whose husband, Rick, serves as pastor of Blue Ridge Grace Brethren Church, Winchester, Va. Services will be held Wednesday in St. Michael, Pa. His obituary appears below. Kenneth E. McNertney, 85, St. Michael, Pa., received a glorious Christmas present, he went to be
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The Lil’ Lancers, students at Grace Brethren Pre-School in Simi Valley, Calif., performed recently at Simi Valley Hospital. Click on the video below to see their performance and view photos. Grace Brethren Christian Pre-School is a ministry Grace Brethren Church, Simi Vally (Jordan Bakker, senior pastor). Grace Brethren Pre School Christmas songs 2016 from Mark
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Dr. Larry L. Pfahler, 73, of Gahanna, Ohio, peacefully entered the presence of his Savior Jesus Christ, surrounded by loved ones on December 19, 2016, after a brief battle with cancer. Larry was born in Bucyrus, Ohio, on January 27, 1943, to Lewis and Gladys (Auck) Pfahler. He grew up on his family’s farm, excelling
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In late September and the early weeks of October, Hurricane Matthew ravished the coasts of Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the southeastern United States. Lasting for days, the tropical storm became the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since 2005, responsible for more than 1,600 deaths. In the wake of the tragedy, Grace Brethren pastors in Florida met to
