“The Fourth of July is a big day in our little town,” reports Pastor Terry Daniels, of the Grace Brethren Church in South Pasadena, Calif. Everyone comes out and marches in the Festival of Balloons Parade.” For a number of years, the church has handed out bottles of chilled water at the beginning of the parade. Even
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Mansfield, Ohio, television station, WMFD, shares the story of this year’s Wifflefest at Southview Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio (Mark Abel, pastor). A portion of the print story appears below. Click here to read the complete post. The 14th annual Wifflefest is coming up this week beginning on July 4th at 9am at Southview
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Wanting to reach their community and help others in a tangible way, The Village Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Milton, Ontario (Rob Stanley, pastor), launched a program last year called VillageHelps. According to Village Community Church elder Ted Adomanis, VillageHelps exists to meet needs in the community and within their own church. Their
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Rusty Edwards, a member of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, pastor), wrote on his Facebook page this week about riding his motorcycle through the rain from Warsaw, Ind., to his home in Goshen, about 25 miles away. It is included here with his permission. SO I SAW JESUS
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Community Grace Brethren Church of Everett, Pa., is launching a long awaited building project this summer. They are building all new offices and nursery with classrooms below while renovating the worship center internally. “We strive to be a church that makes the Word of God easily applied in practical ways for daily life,” says Pastor Jeff
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The memorial service for Bill Burk will be held at 3 p.m., Friday, July 5 at the home of Cary and Lois (Burk) Green, 6824 137th Dr. NE, Lake Stevens, Washington, 98258. (Their home phone is 425-404-2023, should anyone need additional information.) Imogene asks that in lieu of sending flowers, people would contribute to a missionary offering
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Dr. Roger Peugh, faculty member at Grace College and Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, Ind., will speak during the opening session of the Fifth Brethren World Assembly, which will be held next month in the Dayton, Ohio, area. Dr. Peugh, who is the co-author of the BMH book, Transformed in His Presence, will speak on prayer
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From Encompass World Partners: “Amazon Bill” Burk slipped away this morning shortly after 2:00. His daughter, Lois Green, shares that, “It is just as he would have wanted, without any fuss or trauma. His tired old heart simply stopped beating in his sleep, and he woke up in Glory.” Bill and Imogene had been visiting
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Tim Sprankle, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church, Leesburg, Ind., is part of the team charged with encouraging leadership development within the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. He recently shared how leadership could inspire a ministry with an example from his own experience. The ESL class at Leesburg Grace Brethren always ends the school year
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Preparations are being made in Harrah, Wash., to demolish the original Grace Brethren Church building that has not been used by the congregation since they built a new facility in 1991. Most recently it was used by the Harrah Community Christian School, but it has sat vacant for a number of years. This image, of
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