Frances Ashman, 87, wife of longtime Grace Brethren pastor Charles Ashman, slipped into the Lord’s presence at 12:25 p.m. today, February 21, in the healthcare facility at Grace Village Retirement Community in Winona Lake, Indiana. Frances’ health had deteriorated in recent weeks and a number of family members were with her at her passing. Details, […]
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Two Mission Teams – Two Churches One Family of Jesus – Your Help Needed! Bring a friend, bring your family, bring your church. The team of GBC Canada, the Grace Brethren church-planting effort in Canada, has announced two opportunities for ministry teams to come alongside young congregations this summer. The first is July 8 to
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One of the cooperating organizations in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches is Asia’s Hope, an organization that provides family-based residential care for children at high risk of sexual and economic exploitation in Cambodia, Thailand, and India. From its beginnings in 2001, it now operates 23 homes, providing comprehensive care for about 600 kids and
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Arnold Betoney, pastor of Native New Life Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Albuquerque, N.M., has announced the schedule for its 2012 New Year’s Revival. Services will be held at 7 p.m nightly, February 20 to 25 at the church, located at 8624 Zuni SE (corner of Zuni and Virginia). Speakers include: Monday — Pastor
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When we shared yesterday’s story about how Grace Fellowship, a Grace Brethren congregation in Pickerington, Ohio, spread a little sweet love in their community, we were drawn to a video on the church’s web site. It’s from Sunday’s services at the central Ohio church and worthy of a second glance. Pastor Keith Minier and his
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Grace Fellowship of Pickerington, Ohio, a Grace Brethren congregation pastored by Keith Minier, showered their community with love this Valentine’s Week. They distributed close to 400 dozen cookies to schools and fire and police stations in their area. “This was a really exciting event that our church really stepped up and owned,” reports Nicole Waggoner,
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About a dozen pastors, church planters, and church leaders met in Winona Lake, Indiana, today to build fraternity and to talk, dream, and pray about God starting a church-planting movement in Indiana. Tony Webb and Ron Boehm of Vision Ohio were the facilitators, and Aaron Scantlen and Bruce Barlow of the Winona Lake (IN) Grace
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Pastor Jason Carmean of the Lexington, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church is a guest columnist this week in the Mansfield newspaper. Here is an excerpt from his column on the ESL program his church conducts. To read the entire article, click here. I remember growing up in church as a little child, we would sing a
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Reverend Gerald B. Polman of Grace Village Retirement Community, Winona Lake, Indiana, passed away on Wednesday, February 8, 2012, at 7:20 a.m. at Grace Village Health Care at the age of 89. He was born on February 22, 1922, in Los Angeles, California, to Leo Polman and Leila Christine (Neher) Polman. Gerald was married in
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Longtime Grace Brethren pastor Gerald Polman is with the Lord, according to reports received by BMH. A resident of Grace Village Retirement Community in Winona Lake, Indiana, he died at 7:20 Wednesday morning. Gerald had not been doing well since last Wednesday. All family members are rejoicing for Gerald and doing well. Arrangements are pending.
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