Operation Barnabas East Team spent some time at Manheim Grace Brethren Church in Manheim, Pa. TK, director of Operation Barnabas, and Cody Ray, administrative leader for OB East Team, received this email from the secretary of the church. I immediately had to reach out and say how BLESSED we were as a church through Operation […]
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Community play in the annual Wifflefest tournament sponsored by the Southview Grace Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio, was held on Thursday, with the event’s adult tournament fielding 57 teams. A portion of a report on the day from the Ashland Gazette is included below. Click here to read the complete story. ‘Merican Made’ wins 57-team adult
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“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry,” my friend told me. She had recently turned 50 and was struggling a bit with what that milestone means. One day, she found a co-worker in tears. When my friend asked what was wrong, the co-worker blurted out, “I’m turning 25 next week. Half my life will
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An announcement of the 65th wedding anniversary of former Charis Fellowship missionaries, George and Jane Peters, is included in yesterday’s Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch. The Peters’ served for a number of years in the Central African Republic. A portion of it appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Anniversary: F. George and S. Jane
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A report on WFMD-Mansfield, Ohio, includes an interview with Ben Malcolmson, special assistant to the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. He was the speaker on Sunday as the 20th annual Wifflefest kicked off in Ashland, Ohio. The Southview Grace Brethren Church in Ashland (Mark Abel, senior pastor) sponsors the event. A portion of the story
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As Southview Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio (Mark Abel, senior pastor), marks its 20th annual Wifflefest, the event is being featured in the Ashland, Ohio, Times-Gazette. Below is a portion of a third article in a series of three, which was published on June 28, 2019. Click here to read the complete article. 20th
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Wifflefest, the annual tournament around the backyard game that is played with a perforated plastic ball and plastic bats, is underway in Ashland, Ohio. Sponsored by Southview Grace Brethren Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in that community, the first round of games in the Business Tournament was played with proceeds going to the Ashland Pregnancy
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Trey and Sarah Gilmore will be joining the pastoral staff of Movement Church, Hilliard, Ohio, in a one-year, self-supporting church-planting resident roles. The Gilmores come to Movement Church from Tucson, Ariz., where they were recently on staff at Vail Christian Church serving in student ministry. Trey is originally from Pennsylvania and is a graduate of
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Last week, the Richland Source news site included the story of Robin Walker, a member of Grace Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Lexington, Ohio (Nathanial Foote, lead pastor). Robin was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2013, which began a series of hardships in her life. The article traces her path of faith, including that she
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Many of you will relate to how I began. I was a Grace College student 1962-66. For the first two years we had our meals at the Westminster Hotel, eating the culinary catastrophes Ralph Tucker would fix. Not always, but often he had two kinds of food—what went into the garbage disposal and what should go into
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