Pat Morrell, a long-time member of the Grace Brethren Church in Harrah, Wash. (Peter Touhey, pastor), recently retired as the town of Harrah’s clerk-treasurer. As she made plans to leave the office she had held for 28 years, she was featured in the Yakima, Wash., Herald-Republic. A portion of the story appears below. To read
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Ronald Allen Guiles Tony Teodoro Luna Ronald Allen Guiles of Warsaw, Ind., 75, died Saturday, September 17, 2011. He was born on October 25, 1935, in Philadelphia, Pa., to James Ernest and Ellen Margaret (Snyder) Guiles. On October 6, 1956, at Third Brethren Church in Philadelphia, he married Irene Ann Horst, who survives. After graduating
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Eldon “Bud” Hoyt, 87, the brother of the late Herman Hoyt, president of Grace College & Seminary, died November 3, 2011, in Indianapolis. Hoyt graduated from Warsaw (IN) High School, received his BS from Manchester College, MS degrees from Ohio State University and Indiana University. He served in the US Navy during WWII. After graduating
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From pastor Don Shoemaker of the Grace Brethren church in Seal Beach,California, who also serves as a police chaplain: October 12 started out as an ordinary day–sermon study, hospital visitation. While in that hospital room I got a call from Seal Beach’s police dispatch center asking me to respond to a location where multiple gunshot
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In this weekly clip from the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, Dan Allan, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio, speaks on Vision and the Glory of God at the Vision2020 Leadership Conference held in 2011 in Wooster, Ohio Do you see who you are? from Grace Churches on Vimeo.
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By Kelsey Mitchener The Happy Church, nestled in Appalachian Kentucky, rests in the poorest region of the United States at the seat of the nation’s third-poorest county. It’s a growing Grace Brethren congregation with a powerful ministry to the local poor. We want to help get their moral compass pointing in the right direction,” says
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Kudos Beau Stanley, Jonathan Wiley, and Gary Webb have been ordained into the ministry at the Grace Brethren Church, Columbus, Ohio. In the North Central Ohio District of Grace Brethren Churches, Rick Dale and Mark Abel were both unanimously recommended back to their churches for the next steps in their credentialing process. Rick was examined
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In 1974, then-Pastor Jim Custer invited recent Grace College graduate Randy Kettering to become the Worship and Music Director for the growing Grace Brethren Church of Columbus, Ohio. At that time, Pastor Jim proposed three goals for the church’s ongoing ministries: reach as many people as possible with the gospel of Jesus Christ, involve as
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“God gifted me with coaching” Bud Olszewski, Grace Brethren Church, Rittman, Ohio Sport: High School Varsity Boys Soccer Years Coaching: 15 Advice: Coaching is wonderful. I’ve been told coaching is not a popular activity for pastors and it is not easy for some, but it was easy for me. Coaching is a great avenue to
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Coaching sports has its benefits, such as the enjoyment of working with youth or reliving the glory days of your own varsity years, but these are only temporary. The eternal rewards of coaching can be seen in the lives of the players, parents, and offi cials some Grace Brethren pastors encounter every time they step
