Some members of the Winona Lake (Ind.) Women of Grace group from the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, pastor), along with church staff members, this morning celebrated today’s 12th birthday of Melissa Ngoumape, from the Central African Republic. Melissa, along with her parents and sister, left the Central African Republic on December 23 and will be
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Bartley Sawatsky, executive director of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches and pastor of Grace Community Church in Mississauga, Ontario, has issued a call to pray on behalf of the Grace Brethren churches and people in the Central African Republic. In an email sent to all those who are included in the FGBC Handbook, he
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This Sunday’s program on the Central African Republic to be held at the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor) is featured in this morning’s Faith section of the Fort Wayne, Ind., Journal Gazette. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete story. Grace Brethren raises awareness
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The annual Kalahari Winter Retreat, sponsored by churches in Ohio and Indiana, and held at the Kalahari Water Park Resort in Sandusky, Ohio, was held over the weekend. More than 2,000 students and youth staff from 26 churches participated in the weekend, which featured speaker Clayton King. Below is the wrap-up video from the weekend.
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First-hand reports from the Central African Republic along with tangible ways to help will be part of a program to be presented Sunday night at the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church, 1200 Kings Highway (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor). The program, free and open to the public, begins at 6 p.m. “The Central African Crisis—What
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The story of how a young man from the Grace Brethren Church in Norwalk, Calif. (Jeff Patton, pastor), responded to the November 1 shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport was the top story of 2013 on graceconnect.us, based on the number of times the story was viewed. Timmy Ramirez was waiting to catch a
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Last week, GraceConnect.us featured Sam Mylin and his Twelve Days of Christmas paintings at Grace Church at Willow Valley in Lancaster, Pa. (John Smith, pastor). On Christmas Eve, the final piece in the series was unveiled. John and Dawn Heffley and their boys received “Twelve Drummers Drumming.” Mylin says the family is active in the church. “Dawn does VBS every year, her husband, John,
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Ken Lawson, a member of Grace Polaris, a Grace Brethren church in Columbus, Ohio (Mike Yoder, pastor) and a Columbus police officer, has been nominated for an Ohio Liberator Award for his efforts to combat human trafficking. Individuals are encouraged to vote for the recipient on Survey Monkey between Dec 20, 2013 and Jan 10, 2014.
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Dr. Francois Ngoumape, his wife, Marie Claire, and several of their children are relocating to the U.S. for a six-month retreat from the violence in the Central African Republic, their homeland, according to Dr. David Guiles, executive director of Encompass World Partners. They arrive on December 31 and will be hosted by Encompass World Partners, Grace
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The Ohio premiere of the movie, “Chosen,” will be Thursday, January 9, at Grace Polaris Church, 8225 Worthington-Galena Road, Westerville, Ohio (Mike Yoder, pastor). Hosted by the church and sponsored by Shared Hope International, the film details how two victims were recruited into sex trafficking. Also speaking at the event are Vern Smith and Nick Lembo, who
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