Sean Spoelstra, pastor of Encounter Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Dublin, Ohio, has announced that the church is launching its first church plant. “For more than three years I’ve said, ‘I don’t know who or where or when, but we are committed to planting a church and are putting five percent of our offerings […]
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Kerugma Productions, the production company responsible for the video series featuring Dr. Randall Smith (archaeologist, Bible professor, and pastor of the Grace Brethren Church, Sebring, Fla.), has announced that SABC 2 in South Africa will broadcast the series, Seven Days that Changed the World – the Passion Week, on four consecutive Sundays, from March 18 to
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Marianne Elsie Smitley, 84, Palmyra, Pennsylvania, passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2012, at her residence. She was the wife of Rev. Lester O. Smitley. She was born on December 19, 1927, a daughter of the late William Virgil and Mary Esteb Cable Bingaman. She was a pastor’s wife, retired school teacher having taught in several
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Several weeks ago, Lyndan Edwards, nine-year-old son of Canadian church planters Oliver and Cheryl Edwards, was diagnosed with a cavernoma, a blood vessel overgrowth. On March 14, he underwent surgery to remove the cavernoma. Here is an update, sent by GBCanada. Oliver writes: “Thank you for your powerful prayers for our son, Lyndan! I can’t
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Pastor Charles Henry Ashman of Grace Village Retirement Community, 337 Grace Village Drive, Winona Lake, Indiana, lived his earthly life in a godly way and peacefully departed to be with the Lord whom he adored with all his heart on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at 4:50 a.m. at Grace Village Retirement Community at the age
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Lois Wilson, former missionary to the CAR, has informed us that Elsie Smitley, wife of retired pastor Lester Smitley, passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Memorial service to be held at Palmyra, Pennsylvania, Grace Brethren Church on Friday, March 23, at 10:30 AM. Elsie’s twin sister, Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Miller, wife of longtime Grace Brethren
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Longtime Grace Brethren pastor and Fellowship leader Charles H. Ashman went to be with his Lord early this morning in Winona Lake, Indiana. Ashman had pastored Grace Brethren churches in Phoenix, Arizona; Rittman, Ohio; and Winona Lake, Indiana (Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church) and also served as coordinator of Fellowship functions, including organizing and implementing
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Lois N. DeArmey Jim Jackson Sylvia F. Jentes Phyllis Marie Kantenwein R. Paul Miller Ralph F. Miller Norma Jeanne Stech Lois N. DeArmey, 96 of Mishawaka, Ind., went to be with her Lord on Sunday, December 25, 2011, at Grace Village Healthcare Center, Winona Lake, Ind. Lois was born on September 11, 1915, in Johnstown,
By Tony Webb Fraternity – honoring each other. The Scriptures are full of texts that talk about how we are to relate to each other. There are scores of “one another” passages; passages that focus on our love for each other; passages that express how we are to relate to one another when we are
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“If we don’t get serious, we won’t have a part in the Great Commission harvest,” said Tim Boal, executive director of Go2 Ministries, the national church-planting arm of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. “We want to plant churches,” he added, as he announced the Circles of Grace Prayer Project to representatives of Grace Brethren
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