The lives of 43 adults from East Side Grace Brethren Church in Columbus, Ohio, will never be the same. They just returned from the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina as they ministered for a week in Slidell, Louisiana, a northeastern suburb of New Orleans near Lake Pontchartrain. Before Katrina, 30,000 people called Slidell home. Today, […]
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Word has been received from Cherry Valley, California, that longtime Grace Brethren pastor Bob Kliewer entered his heavenly home this morning about 2 a.m. The memorial service is scheduled for 3 p.m. next Thursday, February 2, at Whittier Community Grace Brethren Church at 11000 E. Washington Blvd., Whittier, CA 90606. We’ll post details of Bob’s
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The following article appeared this week in the Elizabethtown (PA) college newspaper, telling of an event that will benefit one of our Grace Brethren churches. Senior honors project benefits Katrina victims Natalie A. Smeltz News Editor When senior Lindsay Rowe considered possible topics to cover for her Honors in the Discipline project, volunteerism was the
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Robert Soto, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church of McAllen, Texas, and former GBNAM church planter, has posted a wide-ranging update on his ministry to Native Americans on the GBNAM website. Through his unique ministry of traveling and dancing Native American dances, Robert reports that nearly 2,700 people have come to the Lord in the
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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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