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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Dan O’Deens, shown here conducting training in Shreveport, Louisiana, is the “point person” for a first-responders team to the Katrina tragedy from the FGBC. O’Deens is pastor of the Grace Brethren church in Parkesburg, PA. Kathleen Allison, communications director for GBNAM, has sent this report on the First Responders team: This past weekend, our First
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The following article appears in today’s Kittanning, PA, Daily Leader-Times newspaper: WEST KITTANNING, PA — Meet McGruff the CrimeDog, watch a magician and a juggler, go on a buggy ride, or climb a rock wall. All this and more is part of Community Spirit and Drug Awareness Day Saturday from 3 to 8 p.m. at
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Pastor Jim Brown from Goshen, Indiana (foreground left, with chainsaw), is leading a team of men from his church helping with Katrina cleanup in Mobile, Alabama. Here is his Thursday-morning report: We had another great day serving here in Mobile, Alabama. We were dispatched to Gulf Dale subdivision and Bayou-LaBartre. I’ve never seen such devastation
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Remember the story about the little boy who owned his boat twice-once because he built it, and the second time because he bought it back? That’s about what happened to the Grace Brethren congregation in Auburn, California. They built a beautiful new building. Then, bowing to financial pressures, they had to relinquish it. Now, due
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Bill and Bambi Walker and their two children, Elisha and Moriah, have arrived in the Toronto area to join Team Canada as prospective church planters. Bill Walker, a native of Maine, accepted the Lord through a Billy Graham telecast during a very dark period in his life. Educated at a Bible Institute in New Brunswick
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Pastor Dan Thornton of the Peninsula Grace Brethren Church, Soldotna, Alaska, tells of this amazing incident in his church Easter Sunday. You can keep up with Pastor Dan’s blog at www.xanga.com/longhikes. Yesterday was an Easter Sunday worship service that my church will never forget. A dear man, Dale Richard, died and was resuscitated right during
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The Floyd Cover family from the Ripon, Calif., Grace Brethren Church (Glen Shirk, pastor) is featured in today’s edition of the local newspaper, the Manteca Bulletin. The family, which operates a wholesale-retail nursery business called Park Greenhouse, is featured as a family-run, three-generation small business. Viki Cover Rife, who directs communications for the Women of
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Miriam Uphouse, former Dean of Women at Grace College, today wed David Christensen in a ceremony at Winona Lake (Ind.) Grace Brethren Church conducted by Pastor John Teevan. Mrs. Uphouse, 87, had known David Christensen, 89, since their college days together in Philadelphia. Each had previously lost a spouse to death, and many of their
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