On March 10, one day short of the 9th anniversary of the federal agents raiding his family’s native gathering, 42 of eagle feathers taken in that raid were returned to Robert Soto. Soto, who pastors the Grace Brethren Church in McAllen, Tex., says, “This is only a battle but the war will continue until change is done
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Dan O’Deens, executive director of CPR-3, the church planting ministry in Haiti, has requested prayer. Yesterday, he posted the following on Facebook: Today my heart was sad. Tonight my heart rejoices. Tired we were. The attack of the enemy has been very real and extremely persistent in CPR-3 and Respire Lavi Haiti. Sickness. Neighbor Attacks.
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Monday’s Fremont, Ohio, Times-Messenger, includes an interview with Jeremy Framstad, who serves as director of technology arts at Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Fremont (Kevin Pinkerton, pastor). A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Local man uses technology to bring people to God FREMONT – Each
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Last weekend, the staff and kids of Asia’s Hope in Cambodia, along with donors and friends from Crossroads Church of Mansfield, Ohio, joined together to dedicate a new campus expansion and to celebrate the beginning of construction on the Battambang School and Training Center. (See the rendering at right.) The purchase of this 4.45 acre plot of
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Crossroads Community Church of Philadelphia, Pa. (Jim Brown, pastor), will be hosting two Easter Egg Hunts on Saturday, March 28, starting at 11:00 a.m. Each event will be held at the community parks of the Holmesburg and Wissinoming neighborhoods. Refreshments, games and prizes will also be provided at the respective Crossroads Community Church facilities following
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Praise the Lord! Erin Bakker was released from the hospital on Monday! Here are a few updates from the Facebook page of the Grace Brethren Church of Simi Valley, Calif. Continue to pray for Erin, her husband, Jordan, and their family. March 9 Erin made lots of improvement today and was released from the hospital
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Word has been received of that Erin Bakker, wife of Jordan Bakker, pastor of Grace Brethren Church, Simi Valley, Calif., suffered a stroke on Friday evening. The prognosis for her recovery is good and she is recuperating in a Simi Valley hospital. Below are more details, which were released on the Simi Valley church’s Facebook
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Vickness, a 44-year old Malawi native, had been told that the water in her village of Zolomondo was too deep to be extracted from the ground. She and everyone in her village only had access to a grimy well with water that was brown and dirty with sickness-inducing contaminants. But in November 2013, Design Outreach, a
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Total Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Toledo, Ohio, is marking its 30th anniversary this month. A special celebration, including dinner, will be held from 12 to 5 p.m., Sunday, March 29, at the Radisson Hotel, 3100 Glendale Ave., Toledo, Ohio 43614. For more information, including the cost of the dinner, contact Pamela Johnson
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The girls’ soccer team at Grace Brethren High School, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church, Simi Valley, Calif. (Jordan Bakker, senior pastor), is headed to the CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) Southern Section tournament this weekend in Downey, Calif. The Simi Valley Acorn carries a story about the match-up today. A portion of that story appears
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