Roy Halberg, pastor of the Alta Loma church in southern California, has circulated the following invitation: Sunday evening, September 16, 2012, a group of churches will be meeting at Norwalk Grace Brethren Church for a time of testimony, singing, fellowship and refreshment (all ages included). You may have heard these gatherings called a SING. Call
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Mike Jentes, a staff member with Church Multiplication Associates, the church-planting group based in Southern California, has issued a call to organic churches in Long Beach and Los Angeles County to gather and pray. “One of the sayings/metaphors that has stuck with me in all my years walking in the organic church movement is ‘Aslan
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The CE National, the Church Effectiveness organization, chooses one church in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches that it considers worthy of the honor of Church of the Year. Grace Community Church in Goshen, Ind., is this year’s recipient. The following was shared by Ed Lewis, executive director of CE National, with the GCC family
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Kittanning (PA) Grace Brethren Church (Larry Edwards, pastor) has called Matt Owlett as their Youth Pastor and Chaplain of their Christian school. Matt, his wife Julee and Daniel, their nine-month old son, arrived in Kittanning September 1, from the Scranton, Pa., area. There will be a commissioning service for Matt on September 9. Matt is
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After 11 years as an associate pastor on the staff of Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Powell, Ohio (Rick Nuzum, pastor), Kary Oberbrunner has announced that he will be leaving the staff of the Powell church effective December 31, 2012 to enter a full-time ministry of speaking, writing, and ministering. In making his
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Editor’s Note: Igreja Evangelica dos Irmoes, a Grace Brethren congregation in Uberlandia, Brazil, recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Several missionaries who served with Grace Brethren International Missions (now Encompass World Partners) and were an integral part of the beginning of the church were invited back for the celebration. by Judy Daniels Norm Johnson remembers being
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Many of Caribbean Vision Ministries friends have contacted us regarding the people we minister to in the Caribbean and the United States. We are pleased to report that House of Hope Orphanage, Grace Theological Institute, and all the churches we minister with in Haiti weathered tropical storm Isaac OK. Everyone experienced a lot of wind
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The current edition of the North Central Ohio district e-newsletter notes that NCO will be examining two men for ordination this fall—Aaron Jones from Woodville Grace Brethren Church and Mac Cordell from Sterling Grace Brethren Church. The exam will be Wednesday, September 19 at 9:30 a.m. at the Delaware church – you are invited to
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BMH has received word that Christian Becker has resigned as pastor of First Brethren Church in Buena Vista, Va., after 13 years of ministry there. He announced in the morning worship service on August 26 that his resignation would be effective December 31. In his remarks Becker highlighted many of the church’s accomplishments and successes during
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Wade Rininger, his wife Anna, and their children are leaving the Penn Valley Church in Telford, Pennsylvania, where Wade has been the associate pastor for the Bux-Mont campus, and are moving to Florida. They will be attending the Pinellas Park Grace Brethren Church where Anna’s father, Randy Weekly, is pastor, with the long-term goal of
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