Pastor Scott Distler of the Grace Brethren church in Lititz, Pennsylvania, says, “What an amazing morning Saturday was for our annual Easter Egg-Stravagaza. In spite of the high winds and cold, God blessed us and the chopper pilot was still able to make the drops and well over 5,000 people were on our campus. “What […]
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Word has been received of the homegoing of Charles “Fred” Berkemer in the Whittier, California, area on February 2, 2009. Via Pastor Richard Todd of the Whittier Community Grace Brethren Church, the family has provided the following information. Charles Berkemer (Fred) was born December 22, 1919, in Nebraska. His mother died a few weeks after
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An excellent video interview with pastors Mike Lee and Dave Patchin of Hope Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Raleigh, North Carolina, is currently on the web. Hope is launching two campuses this fall. In the video, recorded at a multi-site town meeting, Lee and Patchin introduce the campus pastor and field questions from
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This article from the Hays, Kansas, paper reports on a prayer service commemorating the one-year anniversary of a tragedy that befell the town of Portis and the Grace Brethren Church there: Community looks for closure as trial nears By RYAN CHRISTNER PORTIS — At a prayer service Wednesday inside Grace Brethren Church, friends of Jeffery
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Yesterday’s Cuyahoga Falls Press included a story about students at Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy packaging meals to be sent to starving children in Third World countries. The story quoted seniors Cassie Bogden and Joshua Kontur (pictured at right), both who attend the Western Reserve Grace Brethren Church (Jason Haymaker, pastor) in Macedonia, Ohio. Among the
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Thanks to Chuck Winter, who has called to our attention the recent homegoing of Lyle Taylor, who was very active in the national Brethren Boy’s ministry. This obituary is from the Yakima (WA) Herald this past Thursday. Lyle Emmett Taylor WAPATO – Lyle Emmett Taylor, 83, was born on November 1, 1925, at home in
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FIREPROOF is the movie everyone’s talking about, and it will be shown at Sunday Night Praise this Sunday, March 29 at 6 p.m. in the downstairs Living Room at the Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church, 1200 Kings Highway, Winona Lake, IN. At work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter’s adage:
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From Herb and Sharon Carr: We are really getting excited about what God wants to do here in Surrey, BC, Canada. Combining the Teen GCA and the Adult GCA into one week – June 14-20, 2009. It is going to be a great time! You can come as teams or as individuals and if you
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Jesse D. Humberd, 87, of 1 Park Avenue Unit 405, Winona Lake, Indiana, passed away at 6:13 p.m. Saturday, March 21, 2009 at his residence. He was born December 21, 1921, in Roann, Indiana, to Anna M. (Black) Humberd (preceded in 1986) and Reverend Russell I. Humberd (preceded in 1965). Jesse was married on August
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Leonard Rousselow, 81, of Waterloo, Iowa, and a longtime leading figure in the Grace Brethren Church there, died Tuesday, March 17, at Friendship Village Retirement Center. He was born Jan. 31, 1928, in Hudson, son of Clarence and Mary Ingamells Rousselow. He married Lola Deits on Nov. 14, 1947, in Waterloo. She died Aug. 12,
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