Word has been received of the death of Jeanie Snell, wife of Pastor Bill Snell, who serves on the pastoral care team at Grace Polaris Church, Columbus, Ohio (Mike Yoder, lead pastor). Services will be Friday, February 13 at the church at 8225 Worthington Galena Road, Westerville, OH 43081. Her obituary appears below. Helen Jean (Swallen) Snell, […]
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Rev. Dr. Robert Duncan Culver, 98, of rural Houston, Minn. died on Saturday, February, 7, 2015, at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wis. Robert Duncan Culver was born at Tampico, Washington (rural Yakima County) on July 19, 1916, to Sinyeard Carpenter (S.C.) and Emma (Mondor) Culver. He married Arlene Leola Hoyt on January 29,
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Those who joined GraceConnect last summer for our annual corporation meeting during Fellowshift, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, may remember Third Lane, the barbershop quartet from Hagerstown, Md., who provided dinner music. The quartet included Dan Thornton, former BMH board member and pastor of Maranatha Brethren Church in Hagerstown. Dan is
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Randall Ryssemus, 57, Cookeville, Tenn., died Saturday, February 7, 2015, at his home in Cookeville. The family has chosen cremation and a memorial service is planned for a later date in Ottawa, Kan.. Mr. Ryssemus was born Friday, Oct. 25, 1957, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of James Ryssemus and Shirley Jones Ryssemus. He was
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Giving your offering the African way — that’s what the LaLoma Grace Brethren Church, Modesto, Calif., did on Sunday as they took an offering for well maintenance in the Central African Republic. “This was an awesome scene this morning at church. … We did the offering the way they do it in Africa. Everybody brings their
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Word has been received of the death of former Grace Brethren pastor Randy Ryssemus. He also two years as camp director of Camp Tuk-A-Way, the Grace Brethren camp in Blacksburg, Va. The address of his wife is: Julie Ryssemus, 1745 Meadow Wood Drive, Cookeville, TN 38506. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
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A number of Grace Brethren churches in northern Indiana, including Grace Community Church, Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, pastor), are participating in Revive Indiana, a 52-day prayer blitz in two adjoining counties. Here’s a report on the effort from WNDU, the NBC television station in South Bend, Ind. Thousands flock to Revive Indiana prayer blitz ELKHART
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Sunday’s Herald Mail in Hagerstown, Md., includes a story about Andrew Serafini, a member of Maranatha Brethren Church in Hagerstown (Dan Thornton, pastor). Serafini has just been appointed to the Maryland Senate, after serving in the Maryland House of Representatives since 2008. A portion of the story appears below. Click here for the complete article. Serafini
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Dr. Robert D. Culver, former Grace Seminary faculty member, speaker, and author, died Saturday, February 7, 2015 at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in LaCrosse, Wis. Culver visited Winona Lake, Ind., in 2013, at age 97, and spoke to a number of audiences. He was the last living person who attended the celebrated prayer meeting in J.C.
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A thriving church often places a lot of emphasis on community – how well the members work together to serve one another and others outside the church. The Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio (Dan Allan, senior pastor) is no different. Two years ago, Ashland Grace Brethren members Bob and Lisa Kieffer accepted an assignment as overseers
