Roy Halberg, pastor of Grace Fellowship, a Grace Brethren congregation in Alta Loma, Calif., has performed more than 5,000 funerals and in excess of 2,000 weddings. Most of those are for people who don’t regularly attend church. Halberg sees it as an opportunity to connect with families and to share the gospel with them. A pastor […]
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Ron Boehm, Grace Brethren pastor and church-planter coach, who was hospitalized more than a week ago to repair an abdominal aneurysm, is now at home. His wife, Chery, posted the photo above along with the following post on Facebook yesterday. Also included below is a post from their daughter, Joy Patton. Praise God for Ron’s
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Lloyd Wenger, who served on the Grace Brethren Home Missions Council board of directors in the 1980s, then, with his wife, Barb, spent more than three years in the Central African Republic as support staff with Grace Brethren International Missions (now Encompass World Partners), has died. Services will be Saturday at the Grace Brethren Church,
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Look up perseverance and you’ll find the word means a steady and continued existence or occurrence toward a purpose or course of action in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. You’ll likely not find the name Phil Sparling or Auburn Grace Community Church as an example, but given their combined story, both, to God’s glory, are
*updates as of mid-afternoon, via Facebook… From his daughter, Megan Kunkler: Dad got his respirator out this morning and they’ve backed off the sedative. He’s waking up, communicating, recognizing us, squeezing hands, doing thumbs up, telling us where it hurts, and remembering…. Praise Jesus that he’s here with us! What a gift to see him hold
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The city of Cleveland, Ohio, according to church planter Nathan Wells, was “once a thriving industrial city, now desperate, desolate, dependent, and dangerous.” And that’s where Pastor Mark Ritzman decided to plant churches. Ritzman grew up attending Grace Church of Greater Akron, Ohio, Norton Campus (Dan Gregory, lead pastor), located south of Cleveland. He spent 11 years as pastor
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Ron Boehm, Grace Brethren pastor and church-planter coach with VisionOhio, continues to recover in a Cleveland hospital after surgery on Thursday night to repair an abdominal aneurysm and a second surgery yesterday to stop bleeding. He also fell and hit his head after passing out, causing a skull fracture. His daughter, Megan Kunkler, reports this
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Prayer is requested for Ron Boehm, Grace Brethren pastor and church-planter coach who serves with VisionOhio. Jesús Muñoz, director of ethnic church planting for Encompass World Partners, reports that they were together when Ron experienced abdominal pain so he took Ron to an emergency room. There he was life-flighted to University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio,
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Ted Rondeau, executive administrator and missions and outreach director at Grace Community Church, Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, pastor), reports that God is continuing to work in Iraq following a September visit by a team from the church. He recently spoke with Malath (pastor of Alliance Church of Erbil) and Insaf (Iraqi m-worker with International Teams Canada, and Malath’s
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The Grace Brethren Church of Brooksville, Fla., will be celebrating their 40th anniversary as an organized church on Sunday, November 16, according to Pastor Bill Smith. The Homecoming-Anniversary celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to Noon, followed by a Thanksgiving meal. “Keven and Ruthie in Concert” will be the feature for the day. The
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