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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Beka Feth, a young woman from the Mabton (WA) Grace Brethren Church (Paul Guay, pastor) is currently featured for her missionary work in Africa. Here is an excerpt–to read the entire article click here. Feth has returned four times, each time staying longer and getting more involved. She grew attached to a boy named Wongani
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Reverend Ralph Samuel Burns of 337 Grace Village Drive, Winona Lake, Indiana, passed away on Friday, April 20, 2012, at 9:20 a.m. at Grace Village Health Care of Winona Lake at the age of 91. He was born on November 21, 1920, in Fairview, New Jersey, to John Henry Burns and Hannah Elizabeth (Hartley) Burns.
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Michael Pumphrey, pastor and church planter of Awaken Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has alerted us that his church, which is part of the Chesapeake District, is getting ready to enter into a new area of ministry as a church fighting against human sex trafficking. Pumphrey says, “We have bought the rights to show a
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Longtime Grace Brethren pastor Ralph S. Burns has gone to be with the Lord from his residence at Grace Village Retirement Community in Winona Lake, Indiana. A resident of Kosciusko County, Indiana, for the past 42 years, Pastor Burns was a member of Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church. His wife, Ruth Burns, whom he married
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Jeremy Norton will be leaving his ministry as youth pastor at Peninsula Grace Brethren Church, Soldotna, Alaska, effective June 9, 2012. In his announcement, Norton said, “The past 3.5 years have been full of amazing experiences, where the Gospel has been spread and lives have been changed. However recently, through a unique set of circumstances,
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Pastor Chuck Winters from Sunnyside, Washington, has alerted us to a current article featuring Sherman and Wanda Schafer, long time Sunnyside Grace Brethren Church members, who were honored by the Sunnyside School District for more than 20 years of volunteer service to students and staff. Nathan Zakahi pastors the Sunnyside church. This is an excerpt.
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Pastor Roy Halberg (pictured) of Grace Fellowship, a Grace Brethren congregation in Alta Loma, California, along with his wife, Andrea, has been asked to serve as Grand Marshal for the annual 4th of July parade in their city of LaVerne for 2012. Halberg said, “We were humbled to be asked and we are honored to
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Pastor Jim Brown (left) announced today that Ted Rondeau (right) will be joining the staff of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Goshen, Indiana, as Executive Administrator beginning May 1. Rondeau’s wife, Dawn, is in the center. Rondeau, who has a number of years of experience in financial planning and fund raising, has
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A new book dealing with the historical and theological relationship between evangelicals and Anabaptists in the North American context is now available. The lead editor was Dr. Jared Burkholder of the Grace College history faculty. It includes a foreword by George Marsden and chapters from 14 scholars from various institutions. Entitled The Activist Impulse: Essays
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