Anne Brown, wife of Pastor Jim Brown at Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind., was recently named a Woman to Watch by SASSY Magazine. Last week, as the result of a Facebook contest, she was named the “Fan Favorite” and will be featured on the December cover of the magazine. She
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George Feumba Samen, an attendee of Grace Polaris Church, a Grace Brethren church on the north side of Columbus, Ohio (Mike Yoder, pastor) and a graduate of Grace Theological Seminary, has written an article for World magazine on the prosperity gospel in Africa. A portion of it appears below. Click here to read the complete article (subscription may be
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Prayer is requested for Dr. Rich Schnieders, pastor of Friendship Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Fort Myers, Fla. He has been in the hospital since last Tuesday after being diagnosed with pancreatitis. According to his wife, Linda, he had outpatient surgery on Tuesday to remove stones from his bile duct. He went to
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Don Folden, the member of the Los Altos Grace Brethren Church, Long Beach, Calif. (Phil Helfer, pastor), who has been missing since Friday has been found. His daughter posted the message at right on the Facebook page of the Norwalk News. Folden, who suffers from dementia, was last seen around Noon on Friday. No other
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Word has been received of the November 12 death of Mary Lou Allen Fink, a former faculty member in the Education department at Grace College. She was also the widow of the late Dr. Paul Fink, former professor at Grace Theological Seminary and Liberty University School of Religion. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m.,
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Jim Hocking, founder and CEO of Water for Good, has been granted a one-year leave of absence (sabbatical) from his operational responsibilities. The Water For Good board of directors voted unanimously to grant the sabbatical to Jim following ten years of dedicated service to the organization. Jim will continue his responsibilities as founder, sharing his vision, speaking on
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Dr. Jared Burkholder, chair of the history and political science department at Grace College and director of the school’s Office of Faith, Learning, and Scholarship, has been appointed a Snowden Fellow at the Young Center for Pietist and Anabaptist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. During his fellowship, Burkholder will work on an expansion of his
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Word has been received of the death of Glenn Moore, former Grace Brethren pastor and grandfather of Jonathan Carey, pastor of the Ellet Grace Brethren Church in Akron, Ohio. Among the places where he pastored Grace Brethren congregations were Camden, Ohio, and Alto, Mich. His obituary appears below. Glenn Elmer Moore, 92, formerly of Allentown,
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A long-time member of two Grace Brethren churches in Southern California is missing tonight, three days after he was last seen in Norwalk, Calif. Don Folden, who lives in Norwalk, is a member of the Los Altos Grace Brethren Church, Long Beach, Calif. (Phil Helfer, pastor) and previously attended Community Grace Brethren Church, Whittier, Calif.
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The Greenville, Ohio, Daily Advocate carries a story this week about Jeff Keaser, a member of the Grace Brethren Church in Greenville who lost his battle with cancer on October 31. Pastor Danny Wright performed the funeral service for Keaser, who was also a first responder, on Saturday. “I’ve never been involved in a service
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