“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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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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Here is a short excerpt from an article in the Columbus area on the new water pump developed for use in Africa. To read the entire article, click here. It was early December, and families gathered around a bright, shiny symbol of hope at the old Grace Brethren Church in Worthington. No Christmas trees or
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Services were held Monday, December 3, in Mansfield, Ohio, for former Grace Brethren pastor’s wife, Lois Myers, who died last week. She was the widow of Pastor Lee Myers, who led Grace Brethren congregations in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Iowa. Her obituary appears below. Lois Lynette Myers, 91, of Mansfield, fell asleep in the
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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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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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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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From Go2Ministries: We want to thank you once again for your incredible support of this project. Last week, we sent a film crew to meet Michel Faulkner in the Rockaways to provide a report on GO2’s efforts to date. It’s a powerful film that shows how you truly are helping our brothers and sisters in
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The Dimond Grace Church in Anchorage, Alaska, is unique. It’s probably the only Grace Brethren congregation in North America that meets in a mall, where they daily minister to people who pass by. They also host a free garage sale twice a year, having found a way to bless their community with items they not
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A former player for Grace Brethren High School in Simi Valley, Calif., Chad Kackert, was named most outstanding player of the 100th Grey Cup on Sunday. According to the Globe and Mail, he was not even in the starting lineup for most of the first half of the season, but became a standout in the
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