Carlos Peralta, an Argentine native now planting a Hispanic church in Coatesville, PA, is doing so under the sponsorship and guidance of Gateway Grace Community Church (Dan O’Deens, pastor). Carlos’ congregation, Encuentro Latino, is currently averaging about 80 in Sunday morning services–last Lord’s Day 100 were in attendance. 

Jason Weimer (left) from the Waterloo, Iowa, Grace Brethren Church (Kelvin Cooke, pastor) will soon be leaving with his wife, Doni, for a year in the Philippines, helping to plant churches. Viseth Hou (right) is a Cambodian who has been very successful as an evangelist and church-planter and Campus Crusade staff member. He is currently

Jay and Deb Hocking will soon be leaving Indiana to spend 15 months in France as host couple at the Chateau St. Alban. Jay has been working in media and information technology at the Grace Brethren International Missions headquarters in Winona Lake, IN, and they are members of the Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church (John

Bob Steiger, who is from the Centerville, OH, Grace Brethren Church (Steve Makofka, pastor) has already spent time ministering in Chad, Africa, and is on his way back there to teach English, teach Bible, and other ministries. 

BMH Books proudly announces the release this week of a newly expanded and re-written commentary on the Gospel of Mark by Dr. Homer Kent Jr., former dean of Grace Theological Seminary, former president of Grace College and Seminary, and world-respected scholar of New Testament and Greek. Subtitled “The Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,”

Needing some variety in a five-day course on church-planting, ACTS course instructor Dave Guiles subdivided the current 40 students taking the class into groups and assigned them to devise a creative way to demonstrate the biblical concept of the church as the body of Christ. This group used pantomime and music to show that all

This group used Play-Dough to demonstrate the concept of the various parts of the body of Christ articulating together. Other groups used parable, PowerPoint, drawing, rap, and drama. 

The Old Order German Baptist Brethren, a sister group to the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, is currently meeting in Pennsylvania. The group, which traces its heritage to Alexander Mack and 1708 as does the FGBC, is one of six groups (along with the FGBC) which participates in the Brethren Encyclopedia Project. Here is an

The May 23, 2005 issue of BusinessWeek Magazine features a major section on evangelical churches in America. Geared to the business audience, the article is entitled, “Earthly Empires: How evangelical churches are borrowing from the business playbook.” Here is a brief excerpt from one of the lead articles. To read the entire article, click here.

Dave Guiles (standing, dark shirt), executive director of Grace Brethren International Missions, began this morning teaching a five-day class on Apostolic Church-Planting Strategies in Winona Lake, Indiana. Approximately 40 are in the class, including a number of Hispanic church planters, Grace Brethren pastors from Iowa, Florida, California, Indiana and Ohio, and a variety of others