I couldn’t believe it! It was a classmate’s birthday, and my friend and I had wanted to host a celebration in one of the lounges of our dorm. So while my friend baked two round layers of cake mix, I made a big batch of frosting and started preparing different colored flowers to decorate the […]
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Movement Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Hilliard, Ohio (Mark Artrip, lead pastor), is only six years old, but this Halloween, a few thousand people from the community will be united through its outreach. The church will hold its annual Trunk or Treat, which has become a very popular event for Hilliard community residents to attend.
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Word comes from Caribbean Vision Ministries, a cooperating ministry in the Charis Fellowship, of devastating flooding in Trinidad. A portion of their newsletter appears below, along with a link to help, if you feel led. This past week Trinidad suffered major flooding as torrential and abnormal amounts of rain fell causing major rivers and drainage canals
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September 11 is a day for remembering. As the Heartland Leadership Network’s first meeting of the Fall landed on that date, we reminisced about what ministry was like before 2001, considering how things have changed. To fuel our thinking, one of our members led us in an online poll. One entry read: “Gender terms I
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The online news site, InkFreeNews, carries a story today of an effort by members of the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor), to raise funds to benefit a Habitat for Humanity build in their community. A quilt auction and dessert, hosted by the Practical Living Adult Bible Fellowship, will be held
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Warren E. Tamkin of Dillsburg, Pa., entered into the presence of the Lord on October 22, 2018. Born November 6, 1925, in McKee’s Rocks, Pa., he was the son of Alf and Myrtle Coverstone Ramsey and the adopted son of Elmer Tamkin and Beulah Coverstone Tamkin. He was preceded in death by his wife, Betty
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“My wife’s definition of ‘love’ is ‘giving and giving and giving with no thought of return.’ She does it better than me,” says Duke. Duke and Wanda Heller have gone together since their freshman year of high school. They were married 60 years ago on September 7, 1958, in Newcomerstown, Ohio, but have known each other for 76 years.
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Isaac attended Camp Conquest in Denver, Pa., for the first time this summer to spend a week serving alongside his dad, John. They attend Lehigh Valley Grace Brethren Church, a Charis Fellowship church in Bethlehem, Pa. (Larry Humberd, pastor). The two signed up as counselors for a group of 10-12 year old boys. Sometimes a
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A report last week in the Simi Valley Acorn reports on a new science program at Grace Brethren High School in Simi Valley, Calif. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Grace Brethren High School is a ministry of Grace Church, Simi Valley (Jordan Bakker, pastor). Space lab
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You know the feeling. You’re dashing out the door at the last minute and discover your car has a flat tire. You’re cleaning for house guests and there’s a power outage, leaving you with no water, much less the ability to run the vacuum. It’s especially hard for those of us who are planners. I’ve
