Grace Brethren High School’s football team took it’s second consecutive CIF-Southern Section championship on Saturday night. Below is a portion of a report from the Ventura County Star. Click here to read the complete article. The school is a ministry of Grace Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Simi Valley, Calif. (Jordan Bakker, pastor). Grace Brethren […]
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As the football Lancers of Grace Brethren High School in Simi Valley, Calif., headed to the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 championship last Saturday night, they were featured in the Ventura County Star on Friday. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. (Grace Brethren High School is a ministry
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Josh Swafford, member of Grace Fellowship Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Frederick, Md. (Scott Avey, lead pastor), met Jesus on his knees. God brought him a hope like he never had before. “I prayed and I prayed on my knees, and it was very painful,” Swafford shares. “But when I stood up, it was like the weight was
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Access2018, the national conference of the Charis Fellowship (Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches) ended Thursday afternoon, July 26, 2018, with a lively business meeting which saw the addition of three new churches to the fellowship and the adoption of three position statements to be added to the fourth cluster of the Commitment to Common Identity.
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Ten families from Living Hope Fellowship, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Chico, Calif., have lost homes in the recent wildfire that nearly destroyed nearby Paradise, Calif., according to Pastor Phil Sparling, pastor of Auburn Grace Community Church in Auburn, Calif., some 80 miles away. The Chico church is 20 miles from Paradise. Among the families
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Bring together 900 pounds of meat and 620 men, and you’ll have an evening for the books. On October 8, Grace Community Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Fremont, Ohio (Kevin Pinkerton, lead pastor) hosted their fifth annual Beast Feast. The Beast Feast is an evening-long event that usually takes place each fall with the
I acknowledged my same-sex orientation in the middle of ninth grade. The clues had been present years before, of course. I distinctly remember my interest in the YMCA men’s locker room after 5th-grade swimming lessons, my driving curiosity regarding the older male body contrasting even then with my indifference toward the female figure. I remember
What started as a simple fundraising effort in New Holland turned into a ministry God uses to change lives. Grace Family Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in New Holland, Pa. (Tim Hodge, senior pastor), has a food stand at the town’s annual farmers fair. Those who tend the stand wear t-shirts that sport the phrase “For Our Neighbors,”
As I was browsing Facebook early in the morning, I came across an article covering the Wesco tragedy in Cameroon. This was the first I had heard of the news. Only a few weeks ago, a 44-year-old man named Charles Wesco from Indiana flew his wife Stephanie and their eight children to Cameroon to begin
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One of my best friends began to pull back from friendships at church, dropped out of serving, and became obsessed with work and with his appearance. I feared for his marriage, wondering if he was involved in an a air with another woman. He was not. It was an affair with another man. I quickly
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