The national conference of the Charis Fellowship kicked off Tuesday morning with a worship celebration at Auburn Grace Community Church, Auburn, Calif. (Phil Sparling, senior pastor). Speakers Jeremy Wike, senior pastor of Community of Hope Church, Columbia City, Ind., spoke to the importance of partnering together, and shared how he had visited the different pastors […]
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Grace Church, Wooster, Ohio (Nick Cleveland, senior pastor), provided emergency housing on Sunday evening after more than four inches of rain fell in a short period of time, causing flash flooding. The Daily Record reported the story. A portion of the article appears below. Click here to read the complete story. Roads reopening; flood warning
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Friday morning Dr. Tiberius Rata, professor at Grace College and co-author of Fear God and Keep His Commandments, presented the “respectable sins” at a Momentum power tract. Rata referenced the “respectable sins” in Jeff Bridge’s book by the same name. He defined sin as any lack of conformity to the moral character and laws of
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Sean McDowell, during the evening session of Momentum on July 18, taught 2,303 students, church volunteers and staff the reasons Christians have to defend the Bible. “Don’t you think…you should have some good reason to believe it is true?” McDowell asked the crowd. McDowell’s father, while in his twenties, set off on a journey to
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John McCollum, founder and executive director of Asia’s Hope, was featured on the radio program, Amazing Americans with Jerry Schemmel recently. The program features interviews with motivating and inspiring individuals from the world of sports and beyond. When John McCollum and his wife decided to adopt a child from Vietnam, they had no idea the experience would
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The following districts have recommended individuals for ordination to their local churches. (Click on their names to send them a congratulatory email.) Chesapeake District: Jon Keeler, Grace Community Church, Frederick. Md. (Jon is the new executive pastor at Grace Community Church.) Dayne Carraway, Grace Brethren Church, Clinton, Md. (Dayne is also working with Assist to
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A story at upi.com reports on a change in federal policy that would expand protection of individuals who use eagle feathers as part of their Native American practice. The change is driven, in part, by a petition filed by Robert Soto, a Grace Brethren pastor in South Texas. (He is pastor of the McAllen, Tex.,
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Sharon R. (Witzky) Koser Matthes of Grace Village Retirement Community in Winona Lake, Indiana died at 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at Lutheran Hospital of Ft. Wayne, Ind., at the age 74. She was born on September 8, 1944 in Mansfield, Ohio to Leila Mae (Seymour) Witzky and Harold Eugene Witzky. On May 15,
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Steve Koontz, who serves at CE National as IT developer and is a member of the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor), made a presentation about tower gardens at the Kosciusko County Fair this week. His talk, given with nine-year-old Justus Lommel, was reported by the Times-Union newspaper. A portion of
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Gary and Becky Kent Woolman recently paid a visit to Washington, D.C., where they stopped by the church building which formerly housed the First Brethren Church at 12th and E Streets. Her grandfather, Homer Kent Sr., was the pastor there from 1925 to 1940 when he took a faculty position at Grace Theological Seminary and
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