By Tom Hocking Do you like malls? Enjoy window-shopping or people watching? When the weather is bad, do you walk for exercise in the enclosed shopping area? Personally, I do my best to avoid malls–which I call the quintessential temples of capitalism. Around the Christmas holidays, of course many more of you join me in
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By Octavia Lehman Faithful attendees of Grace Church, a Grace Brethren church in Long Beach, Calif., knew that Sam and Ruth Sebabi always disappeared at Christmastime. However, the congregation did not know the deep burden that Sam and Ruth carried: the couple was caring for 15 of their nieces and nephews orphaned by AIDS. Both
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Yesterday and Today by Liz Cutler Gates, Editor, FGBC World One of my first jobs was at a 13,000 circulation daily newspaper. It was an exhilarating place. What better seat to have while a small town pulsed with life and current events unfolded before your eyes? Our older-and-wiser editor (he must have been all of,
Excerpted from Restoring the Household: The Quest of the Grace Brethren Church, published by BMH Books of Winona Lake, Ind., in 2008. The author is the late Dr. Todd Scoles, who served as BMH board chairman and was one of the leading historians of the Grace Brethren movement. Todd went suddenly to be with the
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Pastor Russell M. Ward, age 96 of Englewood, Ohio, went to be with the Lord he loved and served for over 60 years on December 29, 2010. Ward was born in Indiana, but was raised in Illinois. He was the second of three sons of the late Audrey and William Ward. As a young man,
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Word has been received of the passing on to glory of Pastor Russell Ward, the founder of the Basore Road Grace Brethren Church in Dayton, Ohio. No details are available yet, but they will be posted as they arrive. This historical information is from the website of the Basore Road church. On April 7, 1963,
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From the Wooster (OH) Daily Record: WOOSTER — Halcyon S. Palmer, 98, Wooster, passed away Monday, Dec. 27, 2010, in the Orrville Pointe Nursing Home. She was born May 31, 1912, in Ashland, the daughter of Joseph and Nellie Lindsey Overholt. She received an associate degree from Ashland College and had taught school at Wooster
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Betsy Wineland, a member of the Hopewell Grace Brethren church in Hopewell, Pennsylvania (Mark A. Lingenfelter, pastor) is featured in a current article in the online version of the Altoona Mirror. Here is an excerpt. To read the entire story, click here. MARTINSBURG – Donna Block wishes she could clone Betsy Wineland. Wineland, 45, of
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Several weeks ago Ken Lawson, son of Pastor Chuck Lawson from the Trotwood, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church, alerted us to a prayer need for his father’s health. Here now is an update from Ken on Pastor Chuck’s health, with a continuing prayer request: Dad has been in the hospital for two weeks now. He had
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