Two recent Grace Seminary graduates, and a third who is a current student, have begun ministries with Grace Brethren congregations in Florida. They join two others who moved to Florida in recent years to help lead an existing ministry. Alex Gimmi and his wife, Sarah, have joined the staff of Iglesia Comunal La Esperanza in Valrico, Fla., […]
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Last March, Amelia—a journalist for Pumps and Systems Magazine—joined Design Outreach, a cooperating ministry in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, on a trip to Malawi and Zambia. Seeing the dry, hot African plains with limited water made her realize just how important clean water is. A portion of the story she wrote appears below. Click
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Javier Forero, Grace Brethren pastor and church planter in Valrico, Fla., is in the Bahamas this week with Haitian pastors Dumont Cardichon and Henri Cher-Amie, who both lead Grace Brethren congregations in south Florida. (Cher-Amie is pastor of New Calvary Evangelical Church, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which just joined the FGBC in July.) He sent along this report as they
Cornerstone Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Hagerstown, Md. (Mike Richards, pastor), broke ground on Sunday at the site of their new facility, which is located at 20519 Beaver Creek Rd., Hagerstown. “We are rebuilding an 1811 stone and wood barn about 5 miles SE of Hagerstown,” says the pastor. “The stone can stay but
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Registration for the second of five regional retreats for Grace Brethren ministry leaders is now open. The Central Focus Retreat will be held at Maumee Bay State Park Lodge, 1750 State Park Road, Oregon, Ohio. The retreat will be held October 5-7 and will follow the theme Leverage. The regional retreats provide opportunities for FGBC leaders to refresh,
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Each celebration at Flinch Conference opened with a video that introduced someone in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches who had taken a risk. Today’s video introduces The Risk of Rescuing Youth from the Sex Trade. Flinch Conference was the 2015 national conference of the FGBC and was held July 23-26 in Newark, N.J. Grace
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Randy Weekley, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church in Pinellas Park, Fla. He underwent surgery underwent surgery on August 3 to have his left leg removed after suffering from villonodular synovitis. Here is an update, posted on August 22 on his Facebook page and shared here with his permission. He is a patient at a VA hospital in Florida.
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The Grace Brethren church in the Wissinoming neighborhood of Philadelphia, Crossroads Community Church (Peter Forshtay, congregational pastor), has a nice little building, and with the help of a team of young people this summer, had a facelift. It was freshly painted and looks really nice. But, the sidewalk in front of the building was in
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A long-time member of the Carlton Brethren Church, Garwin, Iowa (Dustin Brown, pastor), is featured today in the Toledo Chronicle and Tama News-Herald as she celebrates a milestone birthday. Mary Etta Fisher will turn 90 on August 28. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Mary Etta Fisher to celebrate
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Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Orange, Calif. (Mike Sciarra, pastor), will be celebrating the ordination of Brian Zuniga at 6:30 p.m. this Sunday. (See the invitation at right.) Brian, who is the associate pastor, grew up at Grace Orange and was the children and family pastor from 2010-2014. He and his wife Angela were
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