Many of the Nigerian school girls who were recently kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria, by Boko Haram, have ties to the Brethren movement. The majority of the more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, ages 16 to 18, were from EYN (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) although the group […]
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The Grace Brethren Church in Ripon, Calif., is hosting an open house in honor of Pastor Glen and Lois Shirk, who will be retiring from ministry at the church this summer. The reception will be held from 3 to 6 p.m., Saturday, June 21, at Ripon Community Center, 334 West Fourth Street, Ripon.
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“Without a doubt God called me into the ministry. I have no option really. That’s why I keep on doing it.” This June, Bill Smith (pictured at right) will celebrate 67 years of ministry. He has pastored eight Grace Brethren congregations, served 20 years as an evangelist, and five years as the director of evangelism
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J. Douglas Kegarise, pastor of development and deployment at Grace Church, Lititz, Pa. (Ivanildo Trindade, pastor) received a PhD degree on Saturday from Lancaster Bible College — the first to receive a doctoral degree from the school. Lancaster Online told the story. A portion of it appears below. Click here to read the complete article.
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The upcoming Pinewood Derby at the Grace Brethren Church, Sunnyside, Wash. (Nathan Zakahi, pastor) is featured in the Daily Sun News this week. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Youngsters gearing up for Grand Prix Pinewood Derby After earning their cars via a points system established by
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Grace Church, Lititz, Pa. (Ivanildo Trindade, pastor), has announced the hiring of its new Worship Arts Ministry Director. Wes Crenshaw will join the staff beginning June 8. Crenshaw is a graduate of Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., where also he serves as the worship director at West Nashville Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He graduated with a degree
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Max Fluke, who served with the Brethren Construction Crew, which built Grace Brethren church buildings as part of the ministries of the Brethren Architectural Service and Grace Brethren Home Missions, has died. He also worked at Grace College, in addition to having served as a pastor, and was a well-known builder in the Winona Lake,
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Among those participating in commencement exercises at Grace College and Theological Seminary on Saturday, May 10, 2014, were these men and women who, at their enrollment, indicated an affiliation with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. We congratulate these individuals: Matthew Alan Abbitt, Community Grace Brethren Church, Warsaw, Ind. Tammy Lynn Baughman, Fuente de Vida
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Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Lititz, Pa., is the site for a debate on Thursday. “We are honored to host this debate,” says Pastor Ivanildo Trindade. One of the participants, Ryan Aument, is a member of Grace Church at Willow Valley, a Grace Brethren church in Lancaster, Pa. (John F. Smith, pastor). Below is
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What would you do for a family in need? Would you jump into a lake on a cold evening? More than a 120 people, many of them members or attenders of the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (WLGBC), have done just that in the last week during The Cold Water Challenge — all to benefit
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