Groups from four churches in Ohio and Maryland participated in the 2014 Great Canadian Adventure, which is sponsored by GBCanada. Held from June 29 – July 5, 2014, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the focus of the week was training in evangelism, providing exposure to the ministries in Canada so individuals know how to pray, and […]
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Three congregations will be considered for membership in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches during the business meeting at national conference in July. Grupo Amor Cristiano, a church based in Dublin, Ohio, serves the immediate Spanish-speaking community in both Dublin and Columbus, Ohio. Lead by Pastor Phil Guerena, Grupo Amor Cristiano provides English as a
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Five organizations will be considered as cooperating ministries during national conference. A cooperating ministry is an organization that recognizes a mutual obligation of encouragement and cooperation with Grace Brethren churches, districts, national ministries and/or other cooperating ministries. Prospective cooperating ministries include: Design Outreach (DO) combines humanitarian engineering with Christian non-profit work by creating and implementing
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The national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC) has long been termed a “family reunion.” Opportunities to connect with people from other churches and ministries abound amidst annual corporation meetings, challenging speakers, and opportunities for outreach. During this year’s FellowShift Vision Conference, held July 17 to 21 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel
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Materials normally available to students of the Great Commission Bible Institute are now available online to the general public. Dr. Randy Smith, founder of GCBI and pastor of Grace Church, a Grace Brethren church in Sebring, Fla., has announced that a new opportunity for Bible education became available this week as they published the first
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The AWANA blog, Life Threads, carries a story today that features Brenda Wilcoxson, a member of the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor). Written by Terry White, the former executive director and publisher at the Brethren Missionary Herald Company, the story tells how she felt led to begin a ministry to
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For the 15th year in a row, the Southview Grace Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio (Mark Abel, pastor), hosted the Wifflefest this past weekend. This year it was complete with a commemorative coin and professionally hand-turned bats as prizes. WMFD.com reported on the event. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the
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My family and I harvested three quarts of wild black raspberries recently. It was fun! It was a treasure hunt! We would start picking berries in one patch, move some leaves aside and “bam” another patch would appear!! We were in different parts of the woods and every now and then someone would yell: “Holy
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The Aiken, S.C., Standard recently carried a story about Grace Brethren Army chaplain, Capt. James Murray, when he spoke at Grace Church, a Grace Brethren church in Aiken (Steve Taylor, pastor). Murray served as youth pastor at the church prior to entering the chaplaincy. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read
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Now with his Savior, Jesus Christ, Dick Battis died Monday evening, June 23, at home following a battle with cancer. He was 81 years old. Services were held Saturday, June 28, 2014 at El Camino Baptist Church, Tucson, Ariz. The son of Hiram and Mildred (Grubb) Battis, Dick was born in Wilmington, Del., on July
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