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Worthington Soccer Champs Honor Ill Principal

Today’s Columbus (OH) Dispatch carries a heartwarming story about the soccer team from Worthington Christian School, which is affiliated with the Grace Brethren Church in Worthington (Polaris), Ohio (Mike Yoder, pastor). Here is an excerpt–to read the entire story click here. Brett Elder and his Worthington Christian teammates had just won the Division III championship […]

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Harrah GBC Member Retires as Town’s Clerk-Treasurer

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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Don Shoemaker Recalls Ministry in Seal Beach Shootings

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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Curriculum Teaches Core Character Values to At-Risk Kids

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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Around the Fellowship: Happenings with People and Places of the FGBC

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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Concert Marks 25 Years at Columbus Church

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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