Pastor Gilbert Eugene Hawkins of Warsaw, Ind., died at 11:46 p.m. on Sunday, July 27, 2014, at Lutheran Hospital of Fort Wayne, Ind., at the age of 86. He was a resident of Kosciusko County, Ind., for the past 13 years where he was a member of Lakeland Grace Brethren Church of Warsaw. Gilbert attended […]
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From the beginning of Jim Brown’s ministry as senior pastor at Grace Community Church, Grace Brethren congregation in Goshen, Ind., he noticed “the flight of men from the local church.” Brown saw women and families coming to Grace alone. Even for those men in attendance, he remembered, the men’s church ministries simply weren’t “capturing their hearts, weren’t making them
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Denise Jarnecke, a member of the Grace Brethren Church, Harrah, Wash. (Peter Touhey, pastor), was featured in today’s Yakima, Wash., Herald Republic, for her expertise in drag racing. Denise is the daughter of Rick and Dana Jarnecke, who are also members at Harrah GBC. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read
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With an unwavering commitment to the Word of God and a desire to impact the world for Christ, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC), FellowShift, concluded on Monday at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. During the final Celebration on Sunday evening, Jeff Bogue, pastor of Grace Church, Bath
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News from Encompass World Partners… Word has been received that Alys Anne Haag went to be with the Lord June 6, 2014, in the home of her youngest daughter, Sandra, in Whittier, Calif. Alys was born in Altoona, Pa., September 11, 1923 to Chester and Reba Lickel. January 1, 1947, she was married to Walter
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The Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church (WLGBC), Winona Lake, Ind. (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor) is grieving the death of one of it’s own — 10-year-old Kurt Engler, who died Tuesday morning following an accident on his bicycle Monday evening. For the complete story, see Boy Cyclist Dies From Injuries. His obituary appears below. Kurt Allen Engler, 10,
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Word has been received of the death of Ava Schnittjer Beard Lamar. She taught speech at Grace College and served as the Dean of Women there in the 1950s and 1960s. Her obituary appears below. Ava Beard Lamar (nee Schnittjer) was born to Eternal Life on Friday, July 18, 2014. She was born in 1914,
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Three new congregations officially linked with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches on Monday, July 21, as the annual business meeting was held during FellowShift, the national conference of the Fellowship. Joining the conference was Woodside Church, Ashland, Ohio, Pastor Nathan Wells; Living the Word Church, Mansfield, Ohio, Pastor Andy Shank, Mansfield, Ohio; and Grupo
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Tim Sprankle, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church in Leesburg, Ind., has a driving value: if a member of the congregation has an idea for a ministry or program, then, as often as possible, he wants find a way to make it happen. Under one condition: the person with the passion must take the lead on the
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Hosea 1:2–11; 3:1–5 Love’s Discipline (1:2–9) Some have called the book of Hosea “The Second Greatest Story Ever Told.” God makes the prophet Hosea a living allegory to show His people that God loves the unlovable. Even though they were prostituting themselves by worshiping Baal, God still loved them. Temple prostitution was a common practice
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