The football team at Grace Brethren High in Simi Valley, Calif., will honor one of their coaches tonight when they field. According to a story in yesterday’s Simi Valley Acorn, their helmets will spot a decal with a red number 89, the number first-year receivers coach Ryan Wetnight wore during his seven seasons playing with […]
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Each year, Operation Barnabas leaders and staff select an individual, group, or church to receive an award named in honor of Roger Ward (Grace Brethren Church, Norwalk, Calif.). While the students on OB are being trained in what it means to be “a son or daughter of encouragement,” there are people who far out-serve the
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“It’s been the greatest journey ever. I wouldn’t trade it for anything!” says Debi Large of Okeechobee, Fla. She isn’t talking about the cruise she took a few months ago; she’s talking about the cancer diagnosis she received almost four years ago. When her doctor informed her that she had glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer,
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Pike Grace Brethren Church, Johnstown, Pa. (Rudy Sheptock, pastor), is the site of a community food pantry distribution this month, according to a story in the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Sharing the bounty: Volunteers hand out hundreds of boxes of food monthly in
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Do you know the difference between a thermometer and a thermostat? Both tools measure temperature but while a thermometer adjusts to the temperature around it, a thermostat sets the temperature. The difference is simple, but if applied to how we act in a room full of people it can be convicting. During the four years
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A preacher’s reflection on the attacks on our country on September 11, 2001 — Rich Schnieders, pastor of Friendship Grace Brethren Church, Fort Myers, Fla., shared these thoughts on his Facebook page this morning. It is reproduced here with his permission. This morning as I work in my study with TV news on, keeping an
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Over the weekend, Grace Church, Osceola, Ind. (Greg Serafino, senior pastor) noted it’s 90th year with a special service. The bulletin included a reproduction of a cover from a 1951 Brethren Missionary Herald magazine announcing the self-supporting status of the church. Dan and Rachel Jackson, Timothy (TK) Kurtanek, and Tom and Sharon Stallter were special
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“Mommy will go to the hospital and be there for several nights, then come home with our new baby,” I told my two-year-old daughter enthusiastically. She had been eagerly anticipating the arrival of “her baby,” but it was the first time I had explained to her that I had to go away for a while.
Echo Valley Grace Brethren Church in Tremont, Pa., is seeking a new senior pastor. Below is the job posting. Due to the ill health, resignation and now passing of our beloved lead shepherd; we are seeking a new senior pastor to oversee our flock. Echo Valley Grace Brethren Church is in a rural setting at
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“What if you were born like this for someone else?” A friend once asked me that question as I bemoaned the fact that I didn’t think I was strong enough to live a disabled life anymore. I’d been run ragged with terrifying changes to my diagnoses, the medically overwhelming theory of “pre-mature death,” and an
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