A team from Women of Grace USA (WGUSA) has been partnering with Breathe Partners (formerly CPR-3) this week in Haiti. They have stayed at the Sant Mouvman Guest House, offered sewing classes for single moms, and ministered to the children living in this community of 4,000 people. They head home early this week. Check out […]
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Robert L. Burns, Sr., who pastored many years in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, died on Friday in Kittanning, Pa. Services will be held Tuesday in Kittanning. His obituary appears below. Rev. Robert L. Burns, Sr., 88, of North Buffalo Township, was ushered into the presence of the Lord on Friday, June 24, 2016, in the
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It is 28 days until Margins|2016, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. the conference will be held July 22-25 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in Toronto, Ontario. Today, Tom Avey, FGBC conference coordinator, sent around this checklist of things you should have completed by now if you are registered: Reserved your room.
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I met my mentor at the opening ceremony: Amy, a smiling schoolteacher who was obviously excited to mentor me. Once a week, I’d visit with her in her apartment. We would talk as I waited for my tea to cool. There, in the comfort of her home, I would rabbit-trail into the events of my life. In my unique
A team from Women of Grace USA is in Haiti this week. Each member of the team took with her a sewing machine which will help Breathe Partners (formerly CPR-3) provide an opportunity for a mom in Haiti to develop her own business. The team members are teaching women to use the sewing machines, as
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The lessons learned at one Grace Brethren ministry are being implemented by a volunteer in another Grace Brethren ministry. Community Grace Brethren Church, Warsaw, Ind. (Roy Chapin, pastor), is beginning a food program in Warsaw-area parks. It is led by Sue Kruger, who was inspired by Urban Hope, a ministry in Philadelphia, Pa., which is
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Winona Lake, Ind., home to Grace College and a number of other national and cooperating organizations in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, has made the top ten list of the safest cities in Indiana. The list was created by Safewise, a home security company, and is based on the most recent FBI Crime Report statistics
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A recent graduate of Grace Brethren High School (Clinton, Md.) and his family is featured in the online version of South Potomac Pilot, a media company that serves the Naval Support Facility Indian Head at Indian Head, Md. The Grace Brethren High School is a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church, Clinton, Md. (Irv Clark, pastor).
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Robert Soto, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church, McAllen, Tex., and vice chairman of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, celebrated a settlement with the U.S. Department of Interior on Monday. Soto, a Native American dancer, had been seeking the return of eagle feathers that were confiscated in 2006 during a family powwow. Below is a
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Three miles down the road from Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Akron, Ohio (Jeff Bogue, senior pastor), there is a building. That building once belonged to another congregation who lost the property in a court dispute. The facility was put up for sale, and Grace Church prayed and fasted–and placed a bid. But so
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