The Grace College and Seminary administrative offices have received word of the death this morning of Grace board member Bill Hoffman. Bill served on the Grace Board for 12 years. A CPA, he was a member and elder at the Ashland, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church (Dan Allan, pastor). You are asked to please remember his […]

Here on my blog is an item from Dan Thornton’s blog which he got from Steve Makofka’s blog. (don’t you love this networking age???) Baptism by Triune Immersion The Grace Brethren Churches are some of many churches that practice baptism by triune immersion (lovingly called “triple dippers”). I don’t haggle over this issue a lot,

The current posting on www.womenofcharis.net gives the following updates in the wake of this morning’s bombings in London: The word from the London team via a phone contact with Rhonda Weaver is that they are all safe after the subway/bus bombings that occurred Thursday (July 7) in London during morning rush hour. Bill Kiddoo (GBIM

Arnold Kriegbaum, center, returned today after a 20-year absence to visit Winona Lake, Indiana. Kriegbaum was editor and business manager of the Brethren Missionary Herald Company from September 1953 to August of 1961, when he left to become Dean of Students at Grace College and Seminary. The current Herald building, at 1104 Kings Highway in

Arnold Kriegbaum, right, traveled with a variety of teams from Grace College and Seminary, representing the schools in Grace Brethren churches while Kriegbaum was Dean of Students at the college. The Heralds of Grace Quartet traveled with Kriegbaum for some eight years, logging more than 100,000 miles on behalf of the schools. In this photo

The Grace Brethren Church of Osceola, IN, is hosting a community theater production this weekend. Reproduced here is the notice from the Elkhart Truth newspaper: Osceola Community Players cast members rehearse for their production of “Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” From left are Taylor Calderone as The Narrator, Scott Pontius as Reuben, Dale Rader

Women of Grace USA has just released the first 40-page issue of its new annual resource publication entitled “Women’s Spectrum.” According to the group’s president, Janet Minnix, the annual publication has a two-fold purpose. The first is to inform and challenge individual readers, and the second is to serve as a versatile tool and resource

Retired Cleveland Indians baseball star Andre Thornton was the featured guest this past week for the Ashland, Ohio, Southview Grace Brethren Church’s annual Wifflefest outreach event. Thornton’s pro career stretched from 1973 to his retirement in 1987. The September/October 2004 issue of FGBC World featured a story on Wifflefest (see archived issues on www.fgbcworld.com). The

The Association of Grace Brethren Ministers (AGBM) website went “live” at noon today and is available for viewing at www.agbm.org. Although the site is in its early-development stage, it will be updated regularly by AGBM president Tim Boal, by research and development director Jerry Young, and by the Brethren Missionary Herald staff, which has been

Roy Halberg (thanks Roy!) from our Alta Loma church in California has called to our attention a Christian blogging conference to be held at BIOLA University this October. Here’s the capsule description: “The Torrey Honors Institute of Biola University is proud to announce that the first ever GodBlog Convention will be held at Biola University