Word has been received of the August 2014 death of Don Staley, former pastor of Friendship Grace Brethren Church, Covington, Ohio. Services were held August 13 in Worthington, Ohio, interment at the Cheshire Cemetery, 3271 Cheshire Rd. Delaware, Ohio. His obituary appears below. Pastor Donald Eugene Staley, from Covington,ended his battle with cancer on August […]
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The football team at Grace Brethren High School, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church in Simi Valley, Calif. (Jordan Bakker, pastor), was cited by the Simi Valley Acorn in a round-up article on sports highlights. A portion of the article appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Toast of the town 3. ONE
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Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Fremont, Ohio (Kevin Pinkerton, pastor), recently was featured in the Fremont, Ohio, News Messenger. A story on December 24, 2014, told of the church’s “You’ve Been Gifted” program, which was designed to bring happiness to community residents through acts of generosity. A portion of the story appears
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Keith Minier, pastor of Grace Fellowship, a Grace Brethren congregation in Pickerington, Ohio, reports that more than 3,500 people attended five services at the church on Christmas Eve. In a video report to his church (see below), he said that more than $38,000 was given in the services and will be distributed to a variety
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At Christmas Eve services at Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, pastor), participants gave more than $29,000 to needy families and agencies in the area. Click on the videos below to see the presentations to the recipients following the offering. Pastor Jim Brown wrote on his Facebook page: “Thank
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“I don’t know when there’s ever been another time in the life of our church when we’ve actually had the money in advance with the vision that matches it and the ability to be able to move forward positively and know it’s been paid for,” said Greg Serafino, pastor of Grace Brethren Church, Osceola, Ind.,
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Each year, at the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches delegate and approve “Resolutions for Social Concerns,” which are adopted by the fellowship and printed in the Grace Brethren Handbook each year. Bud Olszewski, pastor at Rittman Grace Brethren Church, remembers being approached by some of the members of his congregation, asking about the resolutions and
Community of Hope Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Surrey, B.C., has a unique means of communicating with their congregation…with a smartphone app (application). The surprising part? Community of Hope is a church of about 100 people. “What we discovered is that email reaches about 30 percent of our congregation, and Facebook reaches about 30
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A prayer request comes this afternoon from Rod and Cathy Peebles, who moved to inner city Toledo, Ohio, last summer to begin a Grace Brethren ministry there. This was first posted on Facebook and is shared here with their permission. Please pray for us. Our landlord told us we need to move as he wants
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The Winchester, Ind., News-Gazette has a news item today about a new location for the Daystar Grace Brethren Church in Union City, Ind. (Nick Philiposian, pastor). A portion of the story appears below. Click here for the complete article. New church gets green light Just 10 days before Christmas, action by the Randolph County Board
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