Word has been received of the death of Tim Miller, youngest son of Lucille Miller and the late Grace Brethren pastor Ward. He died February 5 at his home in San Bernardino, Calif. His brother, David W. Miller (also a former Grace Brethren pastor who now leads Rocky Hill Community Church in Exeter, Calif.), wrote
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Arthur Shepherd has lived in St. Mary’s County, Md., for all of his life, in close proximity to the community of Park Hall. Drive with him down the busy four-lane highway and he’ll show you the corner where he grew up when it was still a lazy, two-lane country road. “It’s one of the fastest
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Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Sebring, Fla. (Dr. Randall Smith, pastor) is taking the Grace Brethren motto “the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible” to the Internet’s most thriving video site. The YouTube teaching series titled One Hour. One Book. takes 20-60 minute snippets from the weekly lectures at Great
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The Daily Sun News in Sunnyside, Wash., reports that the only construction activity in the city during January was the replacement of 61 windows at the Grace Brethren Church (Nathan Zakahi, pastor). A portion of the story appears below. Click here for the complete story. Seasonal slow down for building starts in city of Sunnyside
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On January 24, despite fierce gusts of wind and deep snowdrifts over the roads, more than 350 women gathered at Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, pastor). It wasn’t a typical church service. For starters, the band, the leaders, the congregation were all women. They played games. They sang loudly,
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Noted in the Akron, Ohio, Beacon Journal, over the weekend… Read the complete story here. Dan Gregory is the pastor of the Norton campus of Grace Church. Grace Church volunteers to pack 125,000 meals for starving children Hundreds of volunteers are working at Grace Brethren Church’s Norton campus this weekend to prepare 125,000 meals for the global hunger
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Part 2 (Click here to read the first installment of this article.) Since writing the first installment of this article, several people have asked me to define how things fit into each category: dogma, doctrine, and tradition. (See the definitions in the sidebar.) I am gratified that so many were willing to interact with this
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Advice on Church Growth and Assimilation For a long time now, the church growth world has told us to get as many people to our church services as possible and keep them there as long as possible. The thought is that if they are in church they will hear the Word, be saved, and go to
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Word has been received of the February 4 death of Sherwood Durkee, former Grace Brethren pastor and administrator at Grace Village in Winona Lake, Ind. His obituary appears below. Rev. Sherwood V. Durkee, 88, finished his journey and went home to be with the Lord on February 4, 2014 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Sherwood was
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Lisa Bauman, a member of Grace Polaris Church, a Grace Brethren congregation on the north side of Columbus, Ohio (Mike Yoder, lead pastor), is the guest columnist for today’s First Person column in the Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch. A portion of the article appears below. Read the complete column here. First Person: Days, years pass where family
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