A team of four teens and three adults from the Grace Brethren Church in Aiken, South Carolina (Steve Taylor, pastor) traveled to Pearlington, Mississippi, on December 27 to join the ongoing ministry of relief for hurricane victims. They spent six days working on two new houses in the town of Pearlington and encouraging the people
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Iglesia La Esperanza in Valrico, Fla. (Jesus Munoz, pastor), is bursting at the seams! They’ve outgrown their meeting space and need to find new facilities. Elk Creek Church, a Grace Brethren church in West Grove, Pa., recently celebrated their first anniversary. Pastor Mike Silliman has seen God at work in the church through changed lives
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The Wooster, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church (Robert Fetterhoff, pastor) is helping a needy little girl get a new wheelchair-accessible house. To read more of the story, click here.
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A well-known conference speaker, a renowned Bible teacher, and a Grammy-award-winning performer all promise an exciting weekend at the Grace Brethren Church of Columbus, Ohio, when the fourth annual Grace Discipleship Conference is held February 20 to 22, 2009. Building on last year’s theme of In His Presence, this year’s event looks at Transforming Grace.
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Dave Atkins (pictured) and Asia’s Hope are featured in today’s Mansfield, Ohio, newspaper. Asia’s Hope is an FGBC cooperating organization. Here is an excerpt–to read the entire article click here. ‘Knucklehead from Lexington’ caring for orphans around world By JAMI KINTON • News Journal • December 28, 2008 LEXINGTON — With help from churches and
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Herbert Paul Schaffer, son of the late Rev. William H. Schaffer and H. Maurine Schaffer,and older brother of Alyce A. Schaffer and William L. Schaffer, passed away Monday, Dec. 22, 2008,in Lewisville, TX, after an extended illness. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, January 13, 2009, which would have been his 80th birthday.
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One of the churches from the Conservative Grace Brethren Churches International Fellowship is undergoing a difficult time this Christmas–an opportunity for us to pray for a resolution. Here is an excerpt of an article from the Burlington (VT) Free Press. To read the entire article, click here. “It’s disturbing, but we’re not fearful,” said the
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The following article connecting Winona Lake, Indiana, with the Central African Republic appeared in this morning’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union. This is an excerpt–to read the entire article click here. Local Groups Working In Central Africa Tim RobertsonStaff Writer Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless, starving or in continual danger of attack by bandits and
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Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren church’s Christmas special this year was a “We Care Warsaw” day designed to offer gifts, services, and God’s love to the poor, out-of-work, and economically disadvantaged in the Winona Lake/Warsaw community. Several hundred families responded to invitations distributed at various relief and social centers throughout the county, and came to
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