Agnes B. Bracker, 99, of Osceola, died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, at Elkhart General Hospital. Her late husband, Gordon Bracker, pastored Grace Brethren churches in Elkhart, Ind.; Fremont, Ohio; Kittaning, Pa.; and Cleveland, Ohio over a span of 48 years. He also served as a director of the Grace Brethren Home Missions
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Nurturing future leaders is simple. All it takes is a little time and the right tools to spark a passion in a young boy. Sometimes it’s a literal spark. Grace Brethren Boys (GBB) is a ministry to young boys that uses outdoor skill-building activities like fire starting and tent building as a vehicle for the
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Grace Brethren ministry leaders from the eastern region of the U.S. and Canada are gathered this week at Ocean City, Md., for the annual East Focus Retreat. A record 98 pastors, staff members, and other leaders are registered for the two day event. This retreat, as was the Central Focus Retreat two weeks ago in
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The Grace Brethren Church, Long Beach, Calif., is one of at least three Grace Brethren congregations that is marking a 100th anniversary this year. (The other two are in Ashland, Ohio, and Rittman, Ohio.) In recognition of that, graceconnect.us dug into the archives of the Brethren Missionary Herald magazine and found this 1978 article that
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Two stories come today from the Central African Republic. One, “Terror Grips Central African Republic,” is published by IRIN Africa, a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. (A portion of that story appears below, with a link to the rest of the story.) The second, a video shared by ICDI
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Phil Bryant, pastor of Community of Hope, a Grace Brethren church in Surrey, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver, remembers the Sunday when his family was all settled in for their afternoon nap. At 3:00 o’clock, they were awakened by a knock on the door. A Chinese couple stood on their front porch. “‘Is this‑‑this Community
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Here’s a blast from the past, shared by Roy Glass III. Roy, who serves as director of Camp Tuk-A-Way in Virginia, has posted this video to YouTube. He writes: “I have converted my dad’s films and slides that he took over the years to the digital age. He had a number of them that were
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The Bellflower (Calif.) Brethren Church, a Grace Brethren congregation led by Pastor Tom Hocking, was cited in Friday’s Long Beach, Calif., Press Telegram, as a location for Operation Christmas Child donations. An annual project held by Samaritans Purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization, Operation Christmas Child has collected more than 100 million shoebox
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Phil and Sandy Johnson moved to Orlando, Fla., to begin an evangelistic ministry. “After three years of being here, we realized we needed to pivot and become a church plant,” says Phil, who worked in ministry at Grace Brethren churches in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, before heading to the Sunshine State. It’s not just
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Former Grace Brethren pastor’s wife, Ruby A. Landrum, 103, of Winona Lake, Ind., died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, in her son’s home. She was born Sept. 19, 1910, Minden, Neb., to Frank Larson and Hannah (Nielsen) Larson. Ruby graduated with honors from Ripon Union High School in 1928, ad later graduated with a Bible degree from the Bible
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