I remember my first Easter as pastor in Auburn, Calif. I was excited and had some grand ideas for our congregation. We all needed a successful something. After all the negative events of recent months, our church needed a real positive. So six or seven weeks prior to the holiday, I announced a planning meeting
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Prayer is requested for Evie Wike, the two-year-old daughter of Jeremy and Tonya Wike. (He is pastor of Community of Hope Grace Brethren Church in Columbia City, Ind.) Evie joined the family in May. Prior to Evie’s adoption in China, the Wikes knew that she would need surgery as soon as possible to correct several heart
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A football player at Grace Brethren High School, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church in Simi Valley, Calif. (Jordan Bakker, senior pastor), is featured today’s Riverhead, N.Y., Local News. Zikel Reddick formerly played football at the Riverhead high school and transferred to Grace Brethren at the suggestion of a local coach. A portion of the
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On June 26, U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision that allow same-sex couples the right to marry. This ruling put an end to same-sex marriage bans in 14 states and “provide an exclamation point for breathtaking changes in the nation’s social norms in recent years,” according to the Washington Post. It also put churches, including
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A recent article on the World magazine site reports on the attempts by Native Americans to be able to wear eagle feathers. Included in the report is the story of Robert Soto, a Lipan Apache and the pastor of the McAllen, Tex., Grace Brethren Church, who had eagle feathers confiscated in 2006 during a family
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Grace Brethren Boys is holding their annual Rendezvous this week at Parker Dam State Park near Penfield, Pa. “We have 78 men and boys this week from Indiana and Ohio churches,” says Rob Gable, executive director. “We have been studying ‘who are you?’ using the life of David to illustrate the many ways God sees
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Today’s Simi Valley, Calif., Acorn, has a story about the football team at Grace Brethren High School, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church, Simi Valley, Calif. (Jordan Bakker, pastor). A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article and see additional photographs. Lancers don’t tire of San Luis Obispo
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Urban church planting ministry has unique challenges. In places where Pete Forshtay ministers as congregational pastor at Crossroads Community Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), individuals and families are often entrenched in generations of poverty, family imbalance, violence, and mental illness. Sharing the gospel with individuals who come from such backgrounds is a life-changing matter of the heart, but often
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It’s Wifflefest time at the Southview Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio (Mark Abel, pastor). The tourney features a game that is much like backyard baseball, except with four players instead of nine, and wiffleballs instead of baseballs. The four players are a pitcher, catcher, and two fielders. They also play on fields that have been built
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The Grace Brethren Church of West Kittanning, Pa. (Larry Edwards, pastor), will celebrate it’s 100th anniversary on August 1 and 2. According to Terry White, who grew up in the church, “We’ve put together an historic slide show of about 120 slides of families and activities from the church’s history–most of them from the collection
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