Winona Lake Church Debuts ‘First Sunday Learning Community’ As part of its emphasis on seeking to be an equipping church, Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church has announced a new series of learning opportunities that are free and open to the public, beginning this Sunday, October 2 at 6 p.m. at the church’s building located
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Friendship Community Church (FCC), a Grace Brethren congregation in Fort Myers, Fla. (Rich Schnieders, pastor), celebrates their first Sunday in a new facility this weekend as they have moved to a different location to better accommodate their growing congregation. The new location is 10251 Metro Pkway #116, Fort Myers, FL 33966. FCC started in 1997
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I remember the time I thought I’d messed up my eye sight for life. It began when I rolled my mom’s car. Flying glass sliced open my forehead and left eyelid, requiring surgery to repair. As a result, I couldn’t wear my contact lenses (the hard variety) for most of the summer. Grateful that the
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It started as a simple cupboard to hold food for needy families within the Woodville Grace Brethren Church in Mansfield, Ohio. Jim and Evelyn Miller, motivated by Pastor Ron Smal’s sermon on helping the needy, purchased the cabinet as a place to store donated food. It allowed the congregation to distribute provisions to 16 or
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By Bob Fetterhoff This is excerpted from the annual moderator’s address, given to the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches on July 24, 2011, at Wooster, Ohio. A complete version of the address may be heard online at fgbc.org. Also, the full version will be included in the 2012 Handbook for the
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Ronald Allen Guiles (October 25, 1935 – September 17, 2011) Ronald Allen Guiles of Warsaw, Indiana passed away on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7:20 p.m. in his residence at the age of 75. He was born on October 25, 1935, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Ernest and Ellen Margaret (Snyder) Guiles. On October 6,
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Here’s a unique view of the building belonging to Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Goshen, Ind., (Jim Brown, pastor). Staff member Scott Avey shot the video, and he says, “FPV (first person view) flying around church during second service this morning. The parking lot is always empty during the week and I wanted
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Ron Guiles, longtime Grace Brethren pastor and father of Dave Guiles, executive director of Grace Brethren International Missions, died at his home in Warsaw, Indiana, about 7 p.m. today. Guiles had been battling cancer the last several years. Ron Guiles had been serving as pastor of 55+ ministries at Warsaw Community Grace Brethren Church, Warsaw,
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This is a very interesting article on how the Waynesboro, Penna., Grace Brethren Church (Larry Weber, pastor) is repositioning itself to make a greater impact on the Waynesboro community. These are the first two paragraphs of a longer article. To read the article in its entirety, click here. Laura Bedell, a Wednesday night teacher at
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Dr. Terry Hofecker, who has been senior pastor of Northwest Chapel in Dublin, Ohio, since the founding of the congregation in 1985, last Sunday announced his retirement from NWC effective December 31, 2011. Hofecker said, “We are probably going to do a semi-retirement phase for 4-5 years and then transition to full retirement.” He indicated
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