The following dramatic account comes from an e-mail distributed by Pastor Scott Distler of the Lititz, PA, Grace Brethren Church: One of our elementary school students at Lititz Christian School recently may have saved his mother’s life. This mother is a juvenile diabetic and began having seizures around 2:30AM causing her to go in and […]

Two groups of Grace Brethren pastors met informally this week to discuss plans and enthusiasm for church-planting in the Fellowship. This group met Monday and Tuesday at Hope Community Church in Raleigh, NC, which is pastored by Mike Lee. (Ed Trenner photo)  

Portions of the Raleigh church’s new building were used for the first time this past Sunday. Mike Lee is pastor, and the Hope Community Church of Raleigh hosted the pastors who met there Monday and Tuesday to discuss church planting. (Ed Trenner photo) 

A second group of about 30 pastors met in Columbus, OH on Thursday for a Micropolitan Church-Planting Summit. This group focused specifically on church-planting in non-metropolitan communities of about 10,000 to 50,000 in population. Speakers included Ron Boehm and Terry Hofecker. 

Tony Webb, pastor of the Southwest Grace Brethren Church in Columbus, OH (Grove City), was the convener and the host for Thursday’s Micropolitan church-planter summit. His church not only provided meeting room and materials, but a delicious lunch and snack breaks as well. 

(BP)President Bush and Vice President Cheney are setting an example for the nation by giving at least 10 percent of their income to churches and charitable organizations. Tax information released April 15 by the White House indicates Bush and his wife, Laura, paid $207,307 in federal income taxes on taxable income of $672,788 in 2004.

Today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union newspaper features the current work of former GBIM missionary Jim Hocking in Africa. Here is the story, as written by one of the paper’s staff writers: BY DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer Orphans, AIDS, clean water, enterprise and mass communication. They’re the big issues Integrated Community Development International is taking on

If you live in the Midwest and want an educational, inspirational half-day with lasting value, we suggest you consider visiting the Behalt Interpretive Center near Berlin, Ohio, about a half-hour south of Wooster. A free 15-minute video is available on the history of the Anabaptist (rebaptizer, so named for instituting baptism of adult believers, rather

This is but one scene, depicting an adult baptism in 1525, from the 265-foot, 10-foot tall cyclorama painting by Heinz Gaugel at the Behalt interpretive center near Berlin, Ohio. An Amish guide traces the history of Anabaptism and its branches (including the Brethren) in an hour-long tour around the massive painting. 

CHARLOTTE, NC (ANS) — In the latest stage of the organization’s growth that began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, more that 50 years ago, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) will celebrate the opening of its new home in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a special dedication ceremony. (Pictured: Franklin and Billy Graham). Some four years after announcing