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Simi Valley Grace Brethren Team Wins League Superbowl

The Junior division football team at Grace Brethren Youth Sports, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church in Simi Valley, Calif. (Jordan Bakker, pastor), recently took its first Superbowl Championship in the Gold Coast Youth Football League. The Ventura County Star told the story: GCYFL Junior Division Super Bowl at Rio Mesa Grace Brethren: Led

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Keeping It Simple, Developing Leaders at Orange, Calif.

“At Grace Orange, we exist to worship God, build up believers, and reach others for Christ,” says Mike Sciarra, pastor of Grace Church of Orange, Calif. “It is all about Jesus, one another, and the world. So when it comes to developing leaders, we try to keep it really simple. We do what God’s word

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Columbus Christmas Pageant Featured

The annual Christmas outreach produced by Grace Polaris, a Grace Brethren congregation in Columbus, Ohio (Mike Yoder, lead pastor), is featured in today’s Columbus Dispatch about organizations that rent animals for Christmas pageants. Grace Polaris engages a company to supply camels an donkeys for their Living Christmas Trees program, which marks its 26th season this

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Airman Gives Leave Time for Ministry Trip

Jim Hocking, executive director of Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), a cooperating ministry of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, shares this story from Kadena Air Base, Japan. Airman Jessica Tharp joined her uncle, Tim Harley, a member of the Grace Brethren Church in Wooster, Ohio, on a ministry trip to the Central African Republic

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Humanitarian Problem Solvers Take on Projects to Help Poor

The Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch includes an article today about a group of engineers who are designing water pumps to be used in the Central African Republic. The story, about Design Outreach, quotes a number of Grace Brethren people, including Greg Bixler, Abe Wright, and Jim Hocking, the founder of Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), a

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Akron, Ohio, Church Prepares to Open Medina Campus

Today’s Akron, Ohio, Beacon Journal carries a story about the merger between Grace Church (Jeff Bogue, pastor) and Shepherd’s Grace, a Grace Brethren congregation in nearby Medina, Ohio. The new campus in Medina will be led by Tony Livigni, who has served as collegiate pastor at Bath campus of Grace Church. The church is currently

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