Edward Douglas Miller, 82, of Modesto, California, died Friday at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto. Mr. Miller was a native of Cleveland. He had lived in Modesto since 2000, and previously in Brazil. He was a missionary with Grace Brethren Foreign Missions for 50 years, and was a member of Big Valley Grace Community Church.
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Six men from the Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, Grace Brethren Church (Jim Laird, pastor) left the church parking lot on October 29 bound for Gulfport, Mississippi. Their caravan consisted of an RV donated by a church member, two skid loaders and chainsaws and other tools. One of the skid loaders was loaned to the team by a
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Pastor Dan O’Deens of Gateway Community Church in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, played a key role from the start in the Grace Brethren response to Hurricane Katrina. As the Fellowship’s “point man on the ground,” he recruited, trained, and deployed managers from all over the Fellowship. Here is an edited version of a report he recently gave
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A team of relief workers led by Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church is currently in Gulfport, Mississippi, working to assist families from WLGBC’s “adopted” church, First Baptist Church of Gulfport, and its daughter church, Cross Point, with cleanup. Here are excerpts from team members’ reports: The damage here is indescribable. The pictures don’t do
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Echo Valley Grace Brethren Church, Tremont, Pennsylvania, is pleased is to announce that Rod Finster (pictured) of Osceola, Indiana, has accepted the call to pastor the Tremont church. Rick Wulf, youth pastor at the Tremont church, says, “Over the past year, God has been leading us, drawing us closer, and showing us how to rely
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The following article appeared in this afternoon’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union newspaper: Grace Administrators Back From Helping With Hurricane Relief BY TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer WINONA LAKE – With the ideal of service foremost in their minds, Grace College managers left their regular jobs for 10 days to volunteer in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana. A call for
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Katrina First Responders Dave Guiles (left), Jay Bell (right) and Dan O’Deens (center) are now assessing steps necessary to have the Fellowship better positioned for coordinated response to national disasters. A detailed first-person report from Dan O’Deens follows.
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Carmen Franchino, of the Peninsula Grace Brethren Church in Soldotna, Alaska, has called to our attention the following article on an outstanding young Christian athlete from the Peninsula church. The article appeared in the Clarion newspaper on Tuesday (Clarion photo). Pfaffe leads SoHi football By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion Faith and singing have always come
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The Osceola, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church is excited to announce that we are calling Pastor Greg Serafino (pictured) as our next Senior Pastor. Pastor Serafino has been a church member and leader of the church for over 20 years. Prior to his calling as Senior Pastor, Pastor Serafino served as Assistant Pastor and Interim Pastor
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Dan Thornton (pictured), pastor of Peninsula Grace Brethren Church in Soldotna, Alaska, and board chair of the Brethren Missionary Herald Co., keeps an interesting blog on Xanga.com. His current entry is about a recent moose-hunting trip. Here’s a sample: Wind had died down so we moved early to the Moose Creek Trail. The cabin has
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