Canadian church planter Bart Blair reports, “On Sunday, August 28 we held our first Sunday morning service at the Galaxy movie theatre in Medicine Hat. After three months of Sunday evening services, this was an exciting and monumental move in our progress toward launch. “We have not yet invited the public to our services, as
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John Fea, historian and chair of the Department of History at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, will be speaking on “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?” on Friday, September 16, at 7 p.m. in Westminster Hall on the Grace College campus, Winona Lake, Indiana. Grace history faculty member Jared Bukholder says, “John is a committed
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As Hurricane Irene set target on the eastern seaboard late last week, the editors at BMH wondered how Grace Brethren congregations in the region were faring in the face of the impending storm. We contacted a few pastors who we thought might be in the path of the storm, which was then expected to be
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Mike Yoder was installed this morning as the fourth pastor of the Grace Brethren Church of Columbus (Worthington), Ohio. Former GBIM Executive Director Tom Julien was the speaker. The service was followed by a massive potluck lunch under tents in the church’s parking lot. Yoder, 40, previously spent about a decade as a missionary in
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South East Asia from Teri Myers on Vimeo. The volunteers from the Grace Brethren Church in Wooster, Ohio, recently visited the orphan home they sponsor in Southeast Asia through Asia’s Hope. Here’s a video report of that trip.
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If you take a look at the website for Crossroads Community Church in Madison, Ohio, you can find a picture of Pastor Mike Haury, dressed up in a suit and flashing a warm, inviting smile as he sits in front of an open Bible. Now imagine him wearing a racing helmet and traveling at speeds
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Today’s Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch, includes an article about what happens when a pastor suddenly dies. Jim Augspurger, administrative pastor at the Grace Brethren Church on the north side of Columbus, is quoted regarding the response following of that congregation when David Plaster, then pastor of the church, died in March 2010 after being ill for
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John McCollum, executive director of Asia’s Hope, a cooperating ministry of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches that is dedicated to providing care for orphaned children who are at high risk of sexual and economic exploitation in Southeast Asia, is traveling in India. He is investigating the possibility of expanding the ministry in that country.
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A group of four couples were assessed for church-planting potential this week by the North American Church Multiplication Center. The assessment was held at the Sandberg Leadership Center on the campus of Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. Back L to R: David Miller, Mark Artrip, Bill Ludwig, James Hunt. Middle: Ron Boehm, Sarah Miller,
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From Pastor Kurt Miller at the Martinsburg (PA) Grace Brethren Church: It is my joy to announce that we have hired Danny Horton as our new Director of Children’s Ministries! Danny comes with an array of experience from teaching and activities director to journalism. We all know him as a man who loves God and
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