After two weeks and several hundred kilometers of rugged red dirt roads, the seven member team from the Hope Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Raleigh, North Carolina, has returned home from the Central African Republic. The team included senior pastor Mike Lee, worship director Karl Moraski and newly appointed missions pastor Jean Eloi […]
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Brock Gerber (pictured at right), a young man from the Wooster, Ohio, Grace Brethren church (Robert Fetterhoff, pastor) is honored this week in the local newspaper. Here is an excerpt–to read the entire article click here. DALTON DISTRICT — The high school’s Teens of the Month anticipate missing friends, sports and activities when they graduate
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The Fourth Annual Discipleship Conference will be held Friday through Sunday, February 20-22 at the Grace Brethren Church of Columbus, 8225 Worthington-Galena Road, Westerville, OH 43081 “Transforming Grace” is the theme with keynote speakers Dr. Jerry Bridges and Dr. Steve Brown, including a Friday night concert with Sandi Patty. Conference materials say, “Don’t just settle
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A huge, awkward-looking machine named Beetle is going to provide clean water for tens of thousands of Central Africans for decades to come. Built by the Gill Rock Drill Co. in Lebanon, PA, the Beetle is a very specialized piece of equipment especially designed to drill water wells in the most rugged of circumstances. Later
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Wilda Pappas of the Grace Brethren church in Columbus, Ohio, and matriarch of a family heavily involved in ministry around the world, has graduated to her eternal home and is in the presence of the Lord. Her son, Grace Brethren missionary to Germany John Pappas, was with her, and her son Thomas and his wife
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Catalyst church, the new Grace Brethren church plant recently featured on the front page of the Akron (OH) Beacon Journal (see blogpost of February 6) is facing an immediate financial crisis. Here is the good news–and the challenging news–from church-planting pastor Jonathan Herron. The good news: The past two Sundays we have seen record attendance
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Bruce. Mary. Drew. April. They represent the many changed lives at the Urban Hope Training Center in Philadelphia, Pa. They are also the result of the vision of a struggling congregation who still had hope for their changing community. Read more in the January-February issue of FGBC World, which is available at your local Grace
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LLOYD A. WOOLMAN (pictured), 84, of Grace Village Retirement Community, Winona Lake, Indiana, passed away on Monday, February 9, 2009 at 6:23 a.m. at Grace Village Health Care, Winona Lake, Indiana. Woolman was born on August 21, 1924 in Preston, Washington, to Bernard Woolman and Pearl (Johnson) Woolman. He was married on December 8, 1946,
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Former Grace College coach and professor and Grace Brethren pastor Lloyd Woolman (pictured) went to be with the Lord at 6:23 a.m. today, Monday, February 9, from his home at Grace Village Retirement Center in Winona Lake, Indiana. There will be a calling in Fort Wayne at The Chapel on Thursday, February 12, from 7-9
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John McCollum, with Asia’s Hope (a cooperating ministry of the FGBC to orphans in Asian countries) this morning sent the following urgent prayer request. To read more of Asia’s Hope ministry, click here. Greetings from Cambodia. I need prayer for Sony, who is the wife of our national director, Savorn. I just left a wedding
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