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Partnering for the Community

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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Caroline Saldivar Participates in Ohio Distinguished Young Women

Caroline Saldivar, daughter of Michael and Margaret Saldivar (he’s pastor at Grace Brethren Church, Pataskala, Ohio), is competing this week in Mount Vernon, Ohio, as part of the Ohio Distinguished Young Women program. She is representing Southern Licking County in the competition and is a student at Watkins Memorial High School. (Learn more about her

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Merge in Canada Creates Renew Church

Two Grace Brethren congregations in Ontario have voted to merge. In doing so, they are creating the first multi-site Grace Brethren congregation in Canada. Grace Community Church of Mississauga (Bartley Sawatsky, teaching pastor) and The Village Community Church in Milton (Rob Stanley, lead pastor) have formed Renew Church with an eye to planting additional congregations, or sites,

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Kakrona’s Story

“Conventional wisdom suggests that orphaned kids should perform worse than the national averages,” says Asia’s Hope executive director John McCollum. “But our kids are performing better. Much better. In Cambodia and among Thailand’s hill tribes, where our kids come from, fewer than 12 percent of kids finish high school, and less than 2 percent graduate from college. But our kids have

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CE Seeking Award Nominations

Each year, CE National provides an opportunity to encourage and honor faithful servants in ministry. The CE National Faithfulness Award is an opportunity to nominate those within your church family deserving of honor. Are there names that come immediately to mind? Maybe the faithful staff member, the long-serving Sunday School teacher, those who have undertaken

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Water for Good’s Jay Hocking Featured

Jay Hocking, communications director for Water for Good, is featured in this week’s the paper, the free tabloid shopper that is distributed in Kosciusko County, Ind. (Water for Good is a cooperating organization in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches.) A portion of the article appears below. Click here for the complete story (on page 2). Warsaw

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