Jim Brown, pastor of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind., was recently guest on the podcast, Real Men Connect, an online mentoring and discipleship community for Christian men. On the podcast, he talks about the development of the Fight Club ministry. Click here to hear the interview, which is also available on
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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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About 12 people from around the U.S. who are committed to praying for the fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC) meet monthly via conference call. “The prayer is sweet and the answers have been encouraging,” says Sharon MacMillan, who leads the sessions from her home in California. Others participate from Indiana, Ohio, and other states.
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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“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
Ann Olszewski, wife of Bud Olszewski, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church, Rittman, Ohio, has been honored with the Rittman Mayor’s Big Heart Award. The award was created by Mayor Bill Robertson in 2008 after the city motto, Rittman – a Small Town with a Big Heart, was adopted. Ann is the school nurse for the
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“By awesome deeds in righteousness you will answer us, O God of our salvation, You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth… (Psalm 65:5) In the 1980’s, I had a crazy idea. I wanted to begin praying for the world. I pulled out a big piece of paper and designed a prayer list with
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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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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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Mark Artrip, pastor of Movement Church, a Grace Brethren church in Hilliard, Ohio, has announced that Joel and Morgan Trainer will be joining the church as it’s first church-planting residents. Below is the release that Mark posted following the announcement. Click here to learn more. Movement Church started in 2012 with a vision to be
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