Pastor Don Shoemaker, recently retired from being senior pastor at the Seal Beach, California, Grace Brethren Church, will be speaking at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, this Sunday, May 6 at 11 a.m. His nationally-televised message is entitled, “Making a Difference in Your Corner of the World,” and he will be drawing on […]
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Remembering Pastor Snow – A “Celebration of Life” Memorial Service for Pastor John Snow will be held on Saturday, May 26 at 10:30 a.m. in the Auditorium at Grace Church in Lititz, Pennsylvania.. Everyone is welcome to attend. Pastor John was on the pastoral staff at Grace Church from 1998-2007. John Snow died in a skiing
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The May/June issue of Veritas, the discipleship journal produced by Grace Polaris, a Grace Brethren congregation on the north side of Columbus, Ohio (Mike Yoder, senior pastor), has been released. This issue focuses on Joseph’s Assurance. The introduction reads: Assurance, look the definition up in the dictionary and you will find the phrase, “freedom from
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The DNA of Church Planting It doesn’t take a large church to plant another congregation that reaches even more people with the good news of Jesus Christ. Neil Cole, church planter from California, talks about one such church and the DNA that makes it happen.
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Oscar Chavez, former pastor of Iglesia Cristiana La Cosecha in Lancaster, Calif., has begun a new Spanish-speaking Grace Brethren congregation in Durham, N.C. The church plant was almost unintentional, according to Chavez, who moved to the area with his family to be near his mother, who is sick. As he settled into a secular job,
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Grace Brethren Village named tops in Ohio Dayton Business Journal The Dayton region is home to the two best-ranked residential care facilities in the state for resident satisfaction, according to an Ohio Department of Aging survey. The annual survey, which polls residents in more than 950 skilled nursing and residential care locations across the state,
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There used to be two. Now there will be three. Grace Church of Akron, a Grace Brethren congregation meeting in two locations in northern Ohio, will soon be adding a third location just west of I71 in Medina. Jeff Bogue, senior pastor at the Bath Campus, has confirmed that assessment over the past 6-8 months
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From Grace Polaris Church, a Grace Brethren congregation on the north side of Columbus, Ohio, comes this note: Alice Peer, widow of Pastor Earle Peer, is celebrating her 100th birthday, and you’re invited to help her celebrate! An open house will be held Tuesday, May 1, 2:00-5:00 and 6:00-8:00 p.m. in their home (721 Vancouver
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Jeremy Norton, youth pastor at the Peninsula Grace Brethren Church in Soldotna, Alaska, has resigned to accept a position in Alberta. He shared his resignation letter with the congregation at Peninsula GBC last week. A portion of it is included here: The past 3.5 years have been full of amazing experiences, where the Gospel has
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Brent and Deb Wilcoxson (left) were honored Sunday afternoon, April 22, with a public reception for their several decades of effort to renovate and renew the Town of Winona Lake, Indiana. Brent has taken employment in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and they will be moving there soon. At right is Pastor Bruce Barlow of Winona Lake
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