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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Dr. Robert D. Culver, the last remaining person who attended the celebrated prayer meeting in J. C. Beal’s home in Ashland, Ohio, that led directly to the founding of Grace Theological Seminary, recently spent a weekend in Winona Lake, Indiana, speaking and sharing his memories. Culver, 97, drove with his wife, Celeste, from their home
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The city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, home of one of the newest congregations in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, Grasslands Church, is preparing for possible flooding that some have said could rival a serious flood in 1995. “The city is ‘bracing’ for a pretty serious rise of water in the South Saskatchewan river and
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It’s vacation Bible school season. On the GraceConnect Facebook page, we’ve been sharing images and updates from VBS programs around the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. It’s exciting to hear the reports of how God is working in the lives of young people around North America. This afternoon, our attention was drawn to this video
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Pastor Stephen Joyce of About My Father’s Business Outreach Ministries, a Grace Brethren church in Washington D.C., once received a call from a radio station asking, “Are you the church always out working with the homeless?” Ask someone on the street in Washington, D.C., if they’ve heard of About My Father’s Business, and chances are
It’s a term that has been part of life since my early days. I have been part of the “Grace” Brethren fellowship since I was born. I went to “Grace” College. I even memorized the acrostic for GRACE (God’s Richest at Christ’s Expense). However, I don’t think I completely understood its complete manifestation until I
As we celebrate Father’s Dayhere’s a reminder of a father’s love — not just an earthy father, but our Heavenly Father. This is written by Chaplain (Capt.) Pete Stone, who is with the 101st Airborne Division, stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky. Scars tell stories. They are silent troubadours that remain permanently carved into one’s body, always
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“Periodically God does something that blows your socks off,” says Joel Richards, pastor of LaLoma Grace Brethren Church in Modesto, Calif. “Long story short, members of our church were led to start a community garden. This morning, this project made the front page of our local newspaper. More importantly to us as a church, there
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Jack Brown, pastor of North Shore Bible Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Essex, Mass., is excited about church planting possibilities in the Boston area and beyond. He recently shared news of church planting efforts in the region. We are working on plans for some exciting transitions over the next six-24 months that we believe
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