Several players from Grace Brethren High School’s football team received all-county honors recently, according to a story in the VC Star. Grace Brethren running back/linebacker Josh Henderson shared honors as co-MVP offensive player while Jay Toia was the lineman of the year. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete […]
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The Christmas Eve edition of the online news site, InkFreeNews, carries a story about Gerald Cox, “Kosciusko County’s real Santa Claus.” Cox is involved in Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor). A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Gerald Cox: ‘Kosciusko County’s Real Santa
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Lester Pifer, who led church-planting efforts in the Charis Fellowship (Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches) for more than 30 years, died around Noon on Christmas Day in Central Ohio. From 1953 until his retirement in 1985 from Grace Brethren Home Missions, he traveled throughout the country, often piloting the Home Missions plane (in the early
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News of the sale of an event building to a Charis Fellowship pastor and his wife is reported in today’s Greencastle, Pa., Echo Pilot. Paul and Denise Hutchison, and their son, Aaron, now own the former Rescue Hose Co. Special Events Center property at 407 S. Washington St., Greencastle. They have been leasing it for several
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Jay Toia, defensive tackle for the Grace Brethren High School Lancers in Simi Valley, Calif., has been named a finalist for the USA Today Los Angeles Football Defensive Player of the Year. He will be among those recognized on May 19 at the UCLA campus. A portion of the yesterday’s online post appears below. Click here
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David Swain, a Winona Lake, Ind., police officer, and a member of Grace Church, Leesburg, Ind. (Tim Sprankle, pastor), was among those honored on Tuesday for saving a young boy who fell through the ice on a local retention pond. A report from WSBT-22, the CBS affiliate in South Bend, Ind., includes footage from Swain’s
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Joe James and his dad, Dave James, from Grace Church, Ashland, Ohio (Dan Allan, senior pastor), have been working on a project to provide clean cooking alternatives for people in developing countries. The stoves have been tested among groups served by Charis Alliance ministries. On November 21, Joe pitched the project at an event at
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The news didn’t bring me joy. I was more than angry—I was incensed! A man was being nationally applauded for a good deed in his community. However, I knew he was more evil than good, more manipulative than gracious, and more selfish than considerate. First good deed in sixty years, I bet! I muttered under my
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The Susquehanna Grace Community Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Wrightsville, Pa., is again hosting its “Road to Bethlehem” Christmas event, which was featured in the Community Courier this week. Click on the link below to read the complete story. (The Road to Bethlehem was featured last Christmas in the GraceConnect eNews.)
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Scott Feather, lead pastor of Gateway Grace Community Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Parkesburg, Pa., is pictured on the front page of the Octorara Community Courier this week. The article promotes a community Christmas Eve service at a local high school that Gateway Church is hosting in partnership with several other churches. Click the
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