In the opening session of FellowShift (national conference) this year, the planning team wants to show a short video montage of various pastors and leaders in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. Designed to create some energy in the session and let people get a quick picture of the many leaders and churches that are represented […]
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Word has been received of the death of former Grace Brethren pastor Richard (Dick) Hiram Battis, Sr., 81. He died June 23, 2014, in Tucson, Ariz. Services were held on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at El Camino Baptist Church in Tucson. Additional information will be posted here or in the GraceConnect eNews as it becomes available.
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Two residents of Winona Lake, Indiana’s Grace Village, a cooperating ministry in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, are featured in a story on the online news site, Stacey Page Online. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Still Friends After All These Years Mary Hoffman and Ruth
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The Florida District Ministerial Examining Board met May 20, 2014 to examine Pastor Dumont Cardichon of Family Christian Community Center, Deerfield, Fla., a Haitian Grace Brethren congregation. “Pastor Dumont did an exceptional job and was unanimously approved for the recommendation of Ordination to his local church,” said Dr. Rich Schnieders, pastor of the Friendship Community
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It always throws me off guard when someone at my school asks what my dad does for a living. He doesn’t have one of those “quick ’n easy” job descriptions: doctor, lawyer, teacher. There really just isn’t an answer I can give that defines my dad’s work without simultaneously causing people to make their own assumptions about what he does.
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The Indiana (Pa.) Gazette this week carries a story about an upcoming event at the Valley Grace Brethren Church, Armagh, Pa. (Norris Mason, pastor). A portion of the story appears below. Click here for the complete story. Back-to-school sale planned at church The second annual Back-to-School Blowout will be held from 9 a.m. to 2
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Sunday, June 29, 2014, will be the final sermon for Pastor Larry Weber, senior pastor at THE FAMILY @ Grace Brethren Church, Waynesboro, Pa. A special worship celebration is planned at 10:30 a.m. in the church sanctuary at 250 Philadelphia Avenue in honor of eight years as pastor. The title of his sermon will be “Contend
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“For years we had watched some of the kids who had grown up in church not return once they had graduated high school or college,” said Chris Setser, youth pastor at Basore Road Grace Brethren Church, Dayton, Ohio (Shannon Horst, pastor). “In 2012, a couple of the kids who had recently graduated were passionate about this issue, and approached
Dr. Francois and Marie Claire Ngoumape and their daughters head back to the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) this week after six months in the U.S. They have been here since December 31 and were hosted by Encompass World Partners, Grace College and Seminary, and the Winona Lake (Ind.) Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor). The Winona Lake church prayed for
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The examining board of the Florida District of Grace Brethren Churches has recommended to Wade Rininger’s local church that he be ordained into the Christian ministry. He was examined earlier this week. In the photo at right are pastors Randy Weekley, Jim Poyner, Steve Shipley, Rich Schnieders, Wade Rininger, Matt Wheelock, Dan Younger, and Gerardo Leiton.
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