Wanting to plan an exciting, life-changing event for kids in their church, youth pastors Brad Isch and Nick Cleveland, put their heads together nine years ago and laid out a crazy plan — host a water park retreat…in the winter! That year, the Kalahari Winter Retreat was held with 300 students from their own churches […]
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The 50-by-80-foot strip of land sat neglected until the La Loma Grace Brethren Church, Modesto, Calif., took a leap of faith and planted it with a community garden. “It was an eyesore with people in the community, and people are ecstatic that someone is putting it to good use,” says Pastor Joel Richards. The Modesto Neighborhood Community
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“I searched for God and He helped me find Him,” Julie D’Mello recently told the congregation at Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Mississauga, Ontario (Bartley Sawatsky, pastor). “I’m truly blessed to be a child of God.” Listen to Julie and her husband, Aaron, as they share their journey to find Christ. They
It’s an inspiring story. A young man witnesses to his friend, who becomes a Christ-follower, and then that young man baptizes his friend at the annual youth retreat. Dave Pacheco, youth pastor at the Grace Brethren Church in Delaware, Ohio, had a front-seat view to this story and he picks it up from here: Nate
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Calvary Grace Brethren Church in Kettering, Ohio, is a small church with a big heart for discipleship and missions. About 14 years ago, the men at Calvary Grace started visiting a prison in central Ohio. Every fourth Sunday, they hold a service at the facility, sharing the gospel message and spending time with the inmates. It
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Longtime Grace Brethren pastor, William Russell “Russ” Ogden, of Winona Lake, Ind., died Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 1:15 p.m. at Grace Village Health Care of Winona Lake at the age of 88. He served the Lord through the Grace Brethren Church for 50 years. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot
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Love and liberty was the theme of the recent wedding of Benjamin and Hillary Courter in Maryland. Several D.C. area television stations carried the story. Benjamin’s dad, Pastor Doug Courter, tells the back story: Benjamin (a Sergeant in the Marine Corp) and Hillary had planned on a late 2011 wedding, so she ordered her dream
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Funeral services for Dr. Paul Fink, former faculty member at Grace Theological Seminary and Liberty University School of Religion, will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday, September 11, at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va. Visitation will be tonight (Tuesday, September 10) from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Welcome Center on the campus of
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Yesterday’s Long Beach Press-Telegram carried a story about a new charter school that opened last week in Long Beach. It is housed at the Grace Brethren Church of Long Beach. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Intellectual Virtues Academy, a new charter middle school, opened Wednesday with
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Exodus 1:15–20; Jeremiah 19:3b–6; 33:6–9; Romans 8:1 Be Warned About God’s Judgment (Jer. 19:3b–6) In the book of Jeremiah, God warns Judah that if she doesn’t repent, she will be destroyed just like her sister Israel. Indeed, Israel was destroyed in 722/721 b.c. at the hands of the Assyrians. Now, the Babylonians were knocking on
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