Word has been received that Bob Combs, long-time Grace Brethren pastor who is often known as the “Good Lookin’ pastor,” suffered a heart attack over the weekend. He is in the coronary care unit of a local hospital and will have a heart catheterization this afternoon. Pray for him as he has this procedure. Bob
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Steps are being taken to form an alliance of Grace Brethren churches in the Bahamas. Last week, pastors Jesus Munoz, Javier Forero, Henry Cher-Aime, and Dumont Cardichon traveled to Nassau to help the leadership organize the Bahamian congregations into a group. “The chairman of the board is Pastor Henri Cher-Aime,” reports Munoz, who serves as
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“Before I wrote the first [devotional] I threw away every sermon and lesson I had done over the past 33 years,” Paul Hoffman, a Grace Brethren pastor who is planting a church in Downey, Calif., while being involved with Community Grace Brethren Church, Whittier, Calif. (Richard Todd, pastor). “I thought it was time for a new
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Pray for Chris Ball, pastor of Dimond Grace Fellowship, a Grace Brethren congregation in Anchorage, Alaska. Last week he sought medical help as he was having trouble with kidney stones. Tests revealed cancer inside and outside the right kidney. He will have surgery at 7:30 a.m. AKST on Monday at Providence Hospital. The kidney may
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Camden Feather, the 13-year-old son of Scott and Jodi Feather (Scott is pastor at Gateway Grace Community Church, Parkesburg, Pa.), is featured in this month’s issue of Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse Magazine. In an article written by Leilani Squires, a resident of Winona Lake, Ind., Camden shares his passion for telling other people about Jesus.
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We Are One As shown in services this past Sunday, we are still celebrating that Grace Church Lititz and Grace Church Lancaster, Pa., are now officially one! The first community outreach event is next Sunday afternoon, February 28, at 2:15 p.m. to place door hangers on the doors of homes around the Lancaster campus. Posted on Facebook
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A story in Saturday’s Washington Post details the championship win of the Grace Brethren Christian School girls’ basketball team, taking the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference title. The team defeated Covenant Life, 59-38, to take the title. The school is a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church, Clinton, Md. (Irv Clark, pastor). A portion of the story
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Margaret (Peg) Carey, a member of the Ellet Grace Brethren Church, Akron, Ohio (Jonathan Carey, pastor), was recently honored with the “Silver Acorn Award” at Ritzman CLC, the public elementary school next door to the church. She has taught an after school Good News Club at Ritzman for more than 30 years. Her son, Pastor
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“I’m seeing hope rise from the ashes of these faith-filled people who wouldn’t deny Christ,” said Jim Brown, pastor of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Goshen, Ind He and a team of 10 other men from the church traveled to war-torn northern Iraq in early January to provide encouragement, relief, and leadership
Summit Mills Grace Brethren Church (Andy Gannon, pastor) and Meyersdale Grace Brethren Church (Randy Haulk, pastor) are nestled in the Alleghenies just miles apart from one another, in the rural community of Meyersdale, Pa. After discovering mutual interests – for instance, both churches host an annual game supper, featuring venison, fish and a Gospel presentation –
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