Funeral services for Harold G. Jones, 88, pastor emeritus of Penn Valley Grace Brethren Church, Telford, Pa., will be held at a later date. He died Monday, July 22, at the Souderton Mennonite Home, Souderton, Pa. Born Aug. 25, 1924, to Ralph and Emma Jones of Hatfield, Pa., he was the second son of six children,
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This week’s Chambersburg, Pa., Public Opinion reports on the first Car, Truck, and Motorcycle Show that was held at the Grace Brethren Church in Chambersburg (John Bayer, pastor). (It was announced in last week’s issue.) A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Car show at Chambersburg church benefits
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GO2 Ministries’ Mission Alignment Program uses the latest church planter profile systems, demographic data profiles, and Biblical teaching to help churches and pastors identify and release church planting missionaries to the 1,765 Circles of Grace across the United States. Here’s the video that was shown at G02’s corporation meeting during Vision2020 South.
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Free back packs filled with school supplies, along with hair cuts, games, and just plain fun, at the annual Back to School Bash held August 4, 2013, at the Grace Brethren Church in Osceola, Ind. (Greg Serafino, pastor). Today’s online version of the South Bend, Ind., Tribune, carries a photo album of the event. Click
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The Grace Brethren Church, Chambersburg, Pa. (John Bayer, pastor) is featured in the Chambersburg Public Opinion this week as they plan to host a car show to benefit the children of the church. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete story. Car show to raise funds for church playground
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The 2014 national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches will be July 17-21 at the Shoreham Omni in Washington, D.C. Here’s FGBC executive director, Bartley Sawatsky, with a glimpse of the site… Vision2020DC – The Shoreham Hotel from Grace Brethren Churches on Vimeo.
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New Hope Community Church of Canyon Lake, Calif., has implemented a method to develop healthy disciples while training future pastors and church planters. As part of the discipleship process, pastors Chris Suitt and Paul Krueger encourage church members to take classes at their New Hope Training Center. It offers quarterly classes in topics ranging from
A key component of Vision2020 South, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, this past week were mobile learning labs. Each day, conference delegates and participants boarded buses to head to various sites around Atlanta, Ga., to learn how to reach into their communities with the gospel. Labs included visits to organizations
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Bartley Sawatsky, the new executive director (moderator) of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, asked three things of conference delegates as he closed the annual business meeting of the FGBC on Wednesday. “Pray regularly for me and for the FGBC,” he said. “Communicate properly,” he added. “Tune in, share ideas, and be nice.” He encouraged
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At the Vision2020 South Conference earlier this week in Atlanta, Ga., this video introduced the new executive director for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC), Bartley Sawatsky. Sawatsky is pastor of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Mississauga, Ontario, and the first Canadian to lead the FGBC. Bob vs. Bartley from Grace
